U.S. carrier Matson Inc. has taken delivery of the M/V Matsonia, the second of two new Kanaloa Class “con-ro” ships built for Matson by General

By Richard Weiss and Christopher Jasper (Bloomberg) — U.K. port snarl-ups would be exacerbated in a no-deal Brexit, shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd AG warned

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) – Container shipping, the backbone of the global trading system, is showing signs of fatigue as the pandemic descends

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is calling out charterers over the use of “no crew change” clauses and says the controversial

On Wednesday, December 16, The Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard’s employees joined together at the Company’s Cleveland facilities to

Press Release – Liberia finishes off 2020 as the world’s fastest growing flag State for the second year in a row. In late 2018 Liberia became the

Press Release – Wärtsilä Voyage has successfully completed its first commercial installation of the state-of-the-art Wärtsilä Navi-Harbour WebVTS

By Hugh Bronstein and Maximilian Heath (Reuters) Argentina is the No. 1 international exporter of soymeal livestock feed used to fatten hogs and poultry from

By Nanchanok Wongsamuth BANGKOK, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fishing vessels with crews of forced laborers behave in systematically different

By Charlotte Ryan, Siddharth Philip and Christopher Jasper (Bloomberg) — At the Peterhead fishing port in Scotland, prices for haddock and monkfish were

Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore has announced plans to install a battery system on board one of its 312-foot platform supply vessels working for a

DUBLIN, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Ferry firm Stena Line has brought forward a planned doubling of its direct Ireland to France freight service in response to

BW LPG’s newly retrofitted Very Large Gas Carrier BW Gemini has been involved in a minor collision while in Cristóbal, Panama, BW LPG has informed. The

By Aaron Clark, Kevin Varley and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Seafarers stuck for months on vessels carrying Australian coal off China’s coast are trapped

LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Britain insisted on Sunday that the European Union should budge to open the way to a new, post-Brexit trade pact, drawing a

Scorpio Bulkers has announced its formal exit from the dry bulk shipping sector to focus on next-generation offshore wind turbine installation vessels,

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s navy and air force were deployed on Sunday as a Chinese aircraft carrier group led

By Alvaro Murillo PUNTA MORALES, Costa Rica, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Some 200 workers from 27 nations are building a hybrid sailboat on the Pacific coast of

Rotterdam-based cable laying firm Van Oord has placed an order at Fincantieri-owned Vard for the construction of a next-generation cable laying vessel to serve

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has released new details about the July grounding of the bulk carrier Wakashio in Mauritius and has detailed measures it’s