The Minister of Labour in Canada has imposed binding arbitration on employers and unions to bring end port stoppages on the country’s west coast and in Montreal. On Tuesday morning the Labour Minister…
Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel will be joining the National Association of Waterfront Employers (NAWE) next month leaving a post he was appointed to in the first Donald Trump presidency. Renominated by Joe…
Of the 97 newbuild orders placed in October 2024, 66 were for vessels capable of running on LNG, 29 were for methanol-capable vessels and two were for LPG-capable vessels, according to figures from DNV’s Alternative Fuel Insights…
Yemen-based Houthi rebels with likely links to other terrorist organisations including Al-Qaeda, Al Shabaab and Hezbollah, are thought to be earning billions of dollars from shipowners paying huge tolls to grant their ships…
The newly ordered vessels will be 120 meters long, with a cargo deck of 1,400 square meters. Each ship will feature a 250-tonne deck crane and provide accommodations for up to 120 personnel….
Owner and manager of the container ship, Dali, which struck the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of 26 March, killing six construction workers and preventing access to the Port…
Publishing its preliminary third quarter financials Hapag-Lloyd the container line reported an EBITDA of $3.6 billion and EBIT of approximately $1.9 billion for the first nine months of 2024. This compared to an EBITDA of…
The German line will be closing the JCS service as of the end of February 2025, as it opts to deploy its vessel on one of Gemini services. This route is jointly operated…
Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon. Fast-forward to today, and in…
On Thursday, dockers at the port of Piraeus blocked the shipment of one container of ammunition bound for Israel, showing their objections to the ongoing Israeli operation in Gaza. The Dockworkers Union of…