Update (1/2/2019): AIS Animation Shows Commercial Response Update (1/1/2019): Sincerity Ace Abandoned in Pacific Ocean  The U.S. Coast Guard and several

Shell Australia announced this week it has opened the wells at its massive Prelude FLNG facility located off Western Australia. The Floating Liquefied Natural

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The penultimate reading from the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) for 2018 saw continued erosion of spot

Alaska’s Hinchinbrook Island Light sits on a high cliff 235 feet above the ocean, at the SW corner of Hinchinbrook Island at the entrance to Prince William

By Sharon Smyth (Bloomberg) — The U.K. has awarded contracts worth 108 million pounds ($137.2 million) to charter extra ferries for freight shipments

By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will resume commercial whaling from July in its waters and exclusive economic zone while

By Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The U.S. may be exporting natural gas at a record clip, but that hasn’t stopped it from accepting imports of the

By The Editors (Bloomberg Opinion) — Shipping is the lifeblood of global commerce — more than 80 percent of world trade goes by water. But the industry

The partial shutdown of the U.S. government is impacting operations as key maritime agencies and offices across the country. President Trump has warned of a

By Laura Kovary (Environmental Maritime Services) –  Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) are causing problems for mariners transiting waters

By Hyunjoo Jin and Heekyong Yang ULSAN, South Korea, Aug 13 (Reuters) – When Lee Dong-hee came to Ulsan to work for Hyundai Heavy Industries five

By Shawn Donnan (Bloomberg) — A few days before Christmas, the container ship “SM Shanghai” was steaming toward California’s Port of Long Beach.

Another year in the books here at gCaptain. And what a crazy year it was. As always we’d like to give a special thanks to you, our loyal readers,

By Michael Carr – Tobacco Juice is the Island’s unofficial name. This mound of granite and scrub is just barely an Island, more like a pile of large

LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – British forces stormed an Italian cargo ship on Friday and regained control after stowaways threatened crew members as it

LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – British police said on Friday that they had received no reports that anyone has been harmed in an incident on an Italian cargo

By Christopher Palmeri (Bloomberg) — When the $1.35 billion Symphony of the Seas steamed out of Barcelona on its maiden voyage in April, it instantly

By Ginger Gibson, Roberta Rampton and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a “very

By Niclas Rolander (Bloomberg) — They’re large, they’re expensive and they’re increasingly controversial. Scrubbers, a type of exhaust

Press Release – Samskip takes the lead in ambitious initiative to develop autonomous, zero-emissions container ships that also compete on cost Europe’s