Malte Humpert

As Russia’s attempt to establish an LNG shadow fleet enters its third month, undelivered cargos continue to stack up aboard LNG carriers and floating storage

Russia’s draft federal budget includes substantial funding of nearly $1bn over three years to complete construction of the country’s flagship nuclear

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Arctic shipping continues to have a breakout year setting new records for transit traffic and container ship voyages. As of

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) –  China and Russia continue to step up their patrol activity in the Arctic. A week after the U.S. Coast Guard reported sighting

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – A small fleet of Chinese cargo has set out from shipyards near Shanghai attempting to deliver a critically-needed power plant

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – The summer shipping window on Russia’s Northern Sea Route is coming to a rapid close weeks ahead of schedule. A number of

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) A ship-to-ship transfer of Iranian crude oil between two dark tankers has resulted in a substantial oil spill in the Persian Gulf

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Two and a half months after suffering from an engine room fire, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is back in action. The

(gCaptain) – A week after a Panamax container ship became the first vessel of its size to successfully transit the Arctic, another Chinese shipping operator

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – China’s first Zhou-class submarine, a new nuclear-powered attack vessel, sank earlier this summer at the Wuchang shipyard in

(gCaptain) – The first Arctic transit of a large container ship has gone off without a hitch. The 294 meter-long Panamax vessel Flying Fish 1, traveled from

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – The next element of Russia’s emerging LNG shadow fleet has materialized over the weekend. LNG carrier Everest Energy traveled

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Emergency personnel in Greenland near the southern community of Nanortalik worked over the weekend to contain a 20,000 liters

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Undeterred by tough sea ice conditions in the East Siberian and Chukchi Sea, Russia has dispatched a conventional LNG carrier

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Russia’s nascent LNG shadow fleet remains in a state of disarray with no completed deliveries more than six weeks after LNGC

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) In a further sign of the dramatic climatic changes occurring in the Arctic, two major container ships for the first time passed

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Arctic shipping lanes continue to heat up as an alternative to established trade routes. Russian gas major Gazprom is the

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – In a risky move aimed at overcoming Western sanctions Russian LNG producer Novatek dispatched the non-ice class LNG carrier

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Just days after sanctioning seven LNG carriers associated with Russia’s flagship liquefied gas project, Arctic LNG 2, the

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Three weeks after U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy returned back to homeport in Seattle following an onboard fire, the vessel