Ira Breskin

Shipping industry executives are considering options to address Trump administration policy changes, under consideration or enacted, that could significantly

By Ira Breskin NEW YORK — This is a seller’s market for tankers. That was the consensus of industry experts speaking here this week at the 31st annual

By Ira Breskin BOSTON — The refrigerated cargo/reefer business has emerged as an unexpected port and terminal industry “super star,” speakers

By Ira Breskin The New York Shipping Exchange has modified its operating strategy, responding to a significant shift in how customers contract for container

By Ira Breskin Shenzhen-based BYD is chartering the first Chinese-built and owned ships to deliver its electric vehicles (EVs) to export markets. With BYD’s

By Ira Breskin NEW YORK — Infrastructure funds are increasingly financing expensive, purpose-built ships serving the offshore energy market, according to

By Ira Breskin – Expect the National Maritime Historical Society to increasingly collaborate with sister maritime heritage organizations. That likely

By Ira Breskin NEW YORK – The Pentagon needs to enlist more domestic carriers to provide guaranteed and essential logistical support for Navy operations,

By Ira Breskin — In January, International Maritime Organization delegates plan to present to senior leadership a revised plan to mitigate underwater

By Ira Breskin Building a resilient and cost-competitive 21st-century supply chain is an arduous but essential requirement that firms must satisfy in order

By Ira Breskin, NEW YORK– Despite being clunky, sanctions that prohibit shipowners from lifting or transporting certain grades of Russian petroleum and

By Ira Breskin – Failure of a benchmark ship lease to address the environmental and financial impact of charterers’ operational decisions could

By Ira Breskin – With operators of feeder containerships likely in 2023 to reduce capacity of vessels serving secondary ports, they effectively would cut

By Ira Breskin – BIMCO, which provides most standard ship charter parties or leasing contracts, recently drafted a clause that makes charterers

By Ira Breskin NEW YORK— Recognizing potential risks attached to the US maritime industry’s expanded reach was the theme of the Navy League’s

By Ira Breskin, The New York Shipping Exchange now offers performance-monitoring software.  NYSHEX’s first commercial software product, introduced earlier

By Ira Breskin ATHENS — Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd., a leading tanker operator, plans to “opportunistically expand its (modest size) LNG tanker fleet

By Ira Breskin ROTTERDAM—There is no clearly optimal marine fuel to power the current and future generation of cargo vessels, speakers said Thursday here at

By Ira Breskin (gCaptain) – The marine insurance industry is bracing to meet an expected upswing in multidimensional risk across product lines.

President Biden’s $1.5 trillion federal spending bill includes funds for ten tankers and two cable layers to be added to the U.S. Maritime