The largest battery-electric ship ever constructed was powered up yesterday and successfully completed its first e-motor trial in Hobart, Tasmania. The powering of Hull 096 – the largest electric ...

US forces seized the VLCC Skipper off Venezuela as the battle between Washington and Caracas intensified with the Trump administration suggesting other vessels could be hijacked, too. China’s ...

Taiwan’s Evergreen has split its next fleet expansion plans equally between China and South Korea. Greek broker Intermodal is reporting Taiwan’s largest liner has ordered 14 LNG dual-fuel 14,000 teu ...

Manila-based port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is pressing ahead with a major expansion at Brazil’s Rio Brasil Terminal, committing R$948m ($175m) to lift capacity ...

$1.7m. That’s the fee – or RMB12.1m – that the German owners of the US-flagged Matson Waikiki are being forced to pay to allow the vessel to dock in Shanghai, a sizeable sum, and an indication of the ...

Norwegian offshore vessel owner Havila Shipping has secured a one-year contract extension for one of its platform suppliers (PSV) from compatriot energy major Equinor. Havila revealed that Equinor ...

A sanctioned LNG carrier linked to Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project has been forced to abandon attempts to reach the Utrenny terminal after encountering unusually thick sea ice in the Gulf of Ob. The 293 ...

On Saturday evening the 364 m long ONE Columba allided with the 6,600 teu Clifford Maersk in Hong Kong port with videos showing a number of containers falling off the Maersk ship. The accident ...

Brazilian state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras has launched two tenders for an offshore wind pilot project off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. One tender is for the acquisition and processing ...

Tommy Olofsen is stepping up to replace Finn Amund Norbye as the head of OSM Thome, one of the world’s largest shipmanagers. Norbye has taken the decision to retire after six years at the company, ...

The threat of Somali piracy is re-emerging in the Indian Ocean, with recent incidents highlighting the increasing sophistication and reach of pirate groups. Yesterday’s hijacking of the Malta-flagged ...

The Syrian government and DP World have signed a memorandum of understanding worth $800m to develop Syria’s port of Tartous. The deal to develop, manage and operate a multi-purpose terminal at Tartous ...