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Croatia has selected Turkey’s Kuzey Star Shipyard to take control of Uljanik Brodogradnja 1856, moving the historic Pula shipbuilding operation closer to private ownership after years of state-backed restructuring. The Croatian Centre for Restructuring and Sale, CERP, has accepted Kuzey Star’s binding offer of EUR12.0…
Dutch chartering company Transito has launched a new service combining sea freight and inland shipping under one contract, as low water levels and other disruptions put more pressure on cargo movements between European seaports and the hinterland. The service, named Total Freight, covers the sea voyage, port handling,…
Geneva-based Advantage Tankers has been linked to another pair of suezmax newbuildings at Samsung Heavy Industries, doubling up at the South Korean yard as its tanker ordering spree continues. Shipbroking sources have placed the Tugrul Tokgoz-led owner behind two crude tankers Samsung disclosed this week as part of a …
Washington wants to bring the copper supply chain home, but the result could be record refined imports in one direction and US-mined concentrate heading back out to sea in the other. US copper policy is beginning to produce exactly the kind of trade-flow distortion that creates new opportunities for shipping. Broker B…
An initiative to reduce trips to and from post offices far from major processing facilities has disproportionately impacted rural customers, per an agency watchdog report.
Former Thrasio and Walmart executive Kunal Thakkar joined the baby product maker last month to lead global operations and sourcing, among other functions.
Kirk Jensen will focus on strengthening supply chain and manufacturing operations at Good Culture to improve availability and speed to shelf for retail partners, CEO Jesse Merrill said.
CMA CGM has emerged as the likely liner behind plans for another dozen 24,000 teu megamax containerships at China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in a programme potentially worth around $3bn, as rival Maersk is also reported to be sounding out yards for a major new round of ultra-large tonnage. Broker MB Shipbrokers has li…
Germany has relaxed one of the more restrictive crewing requirements among major European maritime nations, allowing non-EU nationals to serve as masters and senior officers aboard German-flagged ships. An amendment to the country’s Safe Manning Ordinance now gives owners the option to use masters and officers from ou…
Maersk has overtaken COSCO to become the largest operator in the fiercely competitive intra-Asia container market, the world’s largest container trade, according to the latest fleet survey from Alphaliner. The Danish carrier had more than 340,000 teu deployed across intra-Asian services in mid-August, having added aro…
KeelX, the focus of this week’s Maritime CEO, grew out of shipowner Lemissoler’s attempt to solve its own operational frustrations: plenty of vessel data and software, but still too much manual work between identifying a problem and doing something about it. The answer was not another dashboard. It was a platform brin…
China has opened the 134.2 km Pinglu Canal, creating a new river-to-sea artery from the country’s southwest directly to the Beibu Gulf and potentially redrawing inland freight flows towards Southeast Asia. Built at a cost of around RMB72.7bn ($10.2bn), the canal runs from Pingtangjiangkou near Nanning, south through Q…
South Korea is reviving subsidies for long-haul crude imports from outside the Middle East, a move that could provide another boost to tanker tonne-mile demand as Seoul seeks to lock in the diversification achieved since the Iran war began. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it will expand support for the…
Lloyd’s Register (LR), HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have teamed up to develop a new generation of LNG carriers using hybrid electric propulsion. The companies signed an approval in principle (AiP) at Gastech 2026 in Bangkok covering a 185,000 cu m LNG ca…
Bulk carriers are spending dramatically longer – nearly 20% – at sea than at the start of the decade while also travelling more slowly, quietly removing effective capacity from the fleet just as freight rates surge to multi-year highs. The global dry bulk fleet may be getting bigger, but new research publi…
Vladimir Putin has urged the world's largest emerging economies to accelerate the creation of their own reinsurance mechanism, adding momentum to efforts that could eventually loosen the maritime industry's century-long dependence on Western-centred insurance infrastructure. Speaking at the BRICS summit in New Delhi o…
Freight markets are undergoing one of the biggest financial transformations in commodities, with shipping moving steadily from a world where rate volatility was simply accepted as a cost of doing business to one where risk is increasingly transferred, priced and actively managed. William Chin, head of commodities at t…
John Fredriksen-backed SFL Corporation has added another $750m to its contracted revenue after agreeing seven-year charter extensions with Hapag-Lloyd on six 15,400 teu containerships. The renewed fixtures will keep the six ships with the German liner through 2035-36 at fixed rates and lift SFL’s charter backlog to ar…
Shipping may never become predictable. The smarter objective is to make commercial decisions that remain strong even when the assumptions behind them move. Natalia Liashenko, founder and CEO of Marine Solver, explains. Shipping has never operated in a stable environment. Freight markets turn, bunker prices move, conge…
Russia is stacking shipping containers around oil refineries in the latest improvised attempt to protect an energy system that has been battered by increasingly effective Ukrainian drone attacks. Images carried by Dnipro Osint from the Novoshakhtinsk refinery show containers piled several levels high around tanks and …
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