By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Today’s opening of a new container terminal at the Moroccan hub of Tangiers is likely to bring relief to a West

China’s largest shipbuilder Dalian Shipbuilding Industries (DSIC) has delivered what it says is the world’s first “smart” Very Large

British Columbia-based Seaspan Shipyards has delivered the first Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel (OFSV), the CCGS Sir John Franklin, to the Canadian Coast

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, June 28 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) has suspended the bunker craft operator licence of

By Sabina Zawadzki LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) – Dutch gas prices hit 10-year lows this week, reflecting high European inventories swelled by liquefied

By Angelo Amante ROME, June 28 (Reuters) – The young German captain of a migrant-rescue ship stranded off Italy dismissed threats of arrest and

Reese B. Mitchell – On June 24, 2019, the United States Supreme Court ruled mariners’ unseaworthiness claims are ineligible for punitive damages.

The Port of Long Beach is applauding the voluntary slow down of ships calling at the port as part of the Port’s Green Flag Incentive Program, which offers

By Jeffrey Bair (Bloomberg) –U.S. East Coast ports can expect more cargoes like the one aboard the Maersk Cancun once Philadelphia Energy Solutions

By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (Reuters) – Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) will seek to permanently shut its oil refinery in the city after

Saudi Arabian shipping company Bahri has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of the first VLCCs at the new King Salman Complex for

By Susanna Twidale LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s new target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 became law on Thursday,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – MSC has signed a new contract with Cargotec’s MacGregor to upgrade the container intake on six 16,000 teu vessels to

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Some of the people most eager to see a resolution in the U.S.-China trade conflict may be the crew of a ship circling in

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Last week we asked the gCaptain community Are Maritime Startups Ready To Accelerate Change? and shared a handful of new

By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Ulf Laessing KSAR SGHIR, Morocco, June 26 (Reuters) – Morocco will open new terminals at Tanger Med port on Thursday, allowing it

By Mahmoud Habboush (Bloomberg) –An Abu Dhabi-based company that builds drilling platforms for oil giant Saudi Aramco plans to diversify into renewable

By Michael Carr – We were searching the bottom of Long Island Sound between Old Saybrook CT and Plum Island Long Island, for a 36 ft. powerboat. The boat

By Ira Breskin (Business of Shipping) – It should be smooth sailing for the foreseeable future for operators of large Jones Act vessels, speakers said

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Carriers are failing to tackle greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sufficiently invest in the new technologies required to