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Neville Jayant from SalusTech on why maritime safety must learn from everyday success as well as failure. Every day, ships complete demanding operations safely. Mooring continues through difficult wea
- Hellenic Shipping News
The global ocean hull insurance market is continuing to soften despite apparent growth in the overall premium base, according to Ilias P.Tsakiris, Chair of the Ocean Hull Committee speaking at the Int
- Hellenic Shipping News
The VLCC market has experienced a sharp repricing during 2026, with the most significant acceleration taking place since late July as exceptionally strong freight earnings have fed directly into secon
- When the Levee Breaks2h agoHellenic Shipping News
The weakest June for Chinese crude imports in a decade did not cost a single barrel of throughput. Imports fell 41.3% on the year, runs held above 12.4 mb/d, and product exports went up. The differenc
- Hellenic Shipping News
The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose by 1.2% to its highest since September 11 at 3,473 points on Thursday. The capesize index
- Hellenic Shipping News
Colombia’s position in the global coal market is undergoing a structural shift; robust exports, renewed access to the Israeli market and frequent disruptions to its logistics infrastructure are shapin
- Hellenic Shipping News
Geopolitical tensions, regional conflicts and increasingly sophisticated criminal networks are creating connected security risks for international shipping. At BIMCO’s Maritime Security Symposium 2026
- Hellenic Shipping News
Insurance companies have lost billions to cover war risks for shipping during the ongoing US-Iran conflict to support global energy trades, despite a jump in headline premium rates, according to a sen
- Hellenic Shipping News
Fujairah’s fuel oil stocks have averaged 19% higher in September so far than across August, Fujairah Oil Industry Zone (FOIZ) and S&P Global data shows. Changes in monthly average Fujairah s
- Hellenic Shipping News
Maritime experts shared their views and experiences on the evolving competence and training needs for seafarers as the maritime sector transitions to new fuels and technologies, at an event held in Li
- Hellenic Shipping News
Interferry, the global trade association representing the ferry industry, has welcomed the European Commission’s proposed revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The association says the
- gCaptain
Regulatory uncertainty is becoming a major factor in shipowners’ investment decisions as the industry weighs vessels and fuel systems that will remain in service for decades, according to DNV’s latest
- gCaptain
Sales of Venezuelan oil for loading in October stalled after a surge in shipping costs muddled negotiations between the country’s state oil company and buyers of its oil.
- gCaptain
A Bahrain-led group backed by 80 countries has called for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, demanding safe and unimpeded passage for commercial ships without tolls, conditions or...
- World Maritime Day 2026: IMO Warns Shipping Rules Are Under Strain as Seafarers Face Deadly Attacks7h agogCaptain
The global maritime industry is marking World Maritime Day on Thursday with an unusually immediate backdrop: merchant ships under attack, seafarers being killed and some of the world’s most important.
- gCaptain
The Drewry World Container Index edged lower this week as falling Asia-Europe rates outweighed firmer pricing on the Transpacific, with carriers preparing another round of blank sailings ahead of Chin
- Offshore Energy
Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore has secured more action time for its semi-submersible rig off the coast of Indonesia with subsidiaries of Searah, a joint venture betw
- Last FSRU in seven-vessel conversion program boosts Karpowership’s LNG-to-power value chain9h agoOffshore Energy
Karpowership, Türkiye’s floating power solutions provider and owner and operator of powerships, has finished its multi-vessel liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier-to-floating storage and regasification
- Offshore Energy
U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB has added more than 450 wells to its job list in one fell swoop by locking down a four-contract quadfecta with Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Aramco. The post SLB
- Offshore Energy
Egypt is putting its foot on the gas pedal in a bid to fast-track its Mediterranean energy hub ambitions by holding high-level talks with the U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron to secure an accel
- gCaptain
Taiwan has upgraded its maritime patrol capacity around the Pratas Islands in the disputed South China Sea, including regularly sending larger ships there, the government said, responding to an increa
- Offshore Energy
Van Oord has named its two new subsea rock installation vessels (SRIVs) Vindnes and […] The post Van Oord names its subsea rock installation duo being built in China appeared first on Offshore E
- gCaptain
A supercharged rally in tanker earnings is attracting new investors to the global shipping industry, as the war in Iran points to how geopolitical crises can drastically curtail the supply of vessels.
- Offshore Energy
Norway’s oil and gas player DNO has secured the thumbs-up from the country’s authorities for drilling activities in the North Sea with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore d
- Offshore Energy
China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has started the construction of the first of two […] The post WATCH: Construction starts on ‘world’s most powerful’ trenching support vessel appeared first
- Offshore Energy
Petronas LNG Ltd. (PLL), a subsidiary of Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas, has added a new vessel to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) fleet with the delivery of the newly built LNG carrier (LNGC), whic
- Offshore Energy
Dutch Fugro has secured additional survey contracts offshore Timor-Leste that will support the planning […] The post Fugro secures more work in Timor-Leste alongside new contract in Australia ap
- Offshore Energy
A consortium of Global OTEC, a UK-based pioneer in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) […] The post Bahamas studying ocean thermal energy conversion potential appeared first on Offshore Energ
- Splash247
Shipping has spent the 2020s lurching from one earnings boom to another, with successive crises repeatedly rescuing markets that conventional supply-demand analysis suggested should be weakening. Two
- Splash247
Ships are associated with the overwhelming majority of attributable chronic oil pollution at sea, according to a new global analysis from satellite-monitoring group SkyTruth. The study estimates that
- Splash247
V.Group has appointed Shubpreet Singh as chief executive of V.Ships, promoting from within as the shipmanagement giant reshuffles its senior leadership. Singh, a master mariner, has most recently been
- Splash247
The human and commercial toll from the battle for the Strait of Hormuz continues to mount, with one seafarer killed yesterday after the Cape Dao capesize was struck while transiting the waterway. The
- Splash247
Onex DMCC has emerged as one of the tanker market’s most aggressive VLCC buyers, with at least five supertankers now linked to the Dubai trading house through broker reports and sales registers. Splas
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Angeliki Frangou-led Navios Maritime Partners has been linked to another four containership newbuilds at South Korea’s HJ Shipbuilding & Construction (HJSC), in a deal worth around $500m. HJSC dis
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Germany’s DAB Group is moving into shipowning, ordering two ultramax bulk carriers at China’s Jiangsu Soho Innovation & Technology Shipbuilding with an option for a third vessel. The 64,500 dwt sh
- Splash247
Captain Alex Byelyavtsev is back with some uncomfortable predictions for some owners. ISO’s public consultation on ISO 14060 closed on September 9, 2026. The draft is intended to become what ISO descr
- Splash247
Offshore engineering and services player Subsea 7 has received an extension for work on the Sakarya Phase 3 Black Sea gas development offshore Turkey from Turkish Petroleum Offshore Technology Centre
- gCaptain
The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a $315 million contract to Tutor Perini Corp. to build a new fuel pier and major cutter mooring at Base Kodiak, Alaska, as the service prepares...
- gCaptain
Global oil trading firms Vitol and Trafigura are pushing for steeper discounts on Venezuelan crude oil as rising freight rates shrink their margins, five sources familiar with the matter said.
- gCaptain
Maria Angelicoussis, the magnate behind Greece’s biggest shipping fortune, has scored big gains outside her maritime empire with a bet on technology giant Nvidia Corp. after her family office shifted