Shipping

gCaptain’s full coverage of the maritime shipping industry, including containerships, tankers, dry bulk, LNG, breakbulk and more.


Wednesday, May 8, 2024
A worker on a container crane at the Port of Los Angeles
Ports

U.S. Container Imports to Maintain Strength into Peak Season

Inbound cargo volume at the United States’ major container ports is expected to stay above 2 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) through the summer

May 8, 2024
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Paris Olympics 2024 - Arrival of the Olympic Flame in Marseille - Marseille, France - May 8, 2024
Shipping

Olympic Flame Arrives in Marseille

MARSEILLE, France, May 8 (Reuters) – The Olympic flame reached Marseille, just outside the Old Port, amid tight

May 8, 2024
Total Views: 1552

Stock photo of a ship-to-ship transfer between two tankers from above
Shipping

Greece Extends Naval Advisory to Deter Russian Oil Ship-to-Ship Transfers

ATHENS, May 8 (Reuters) – The Greek navy on Wednesday extended an advisory effectively banning ship traffic off the coast of the southeastern

May 8, 2024
Total Views: 1032

containership
Shipping

Asia-Europe Container Trade Surging as Forwarders Warn of Capacity Crisis and Soaring Freight Rates

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Forwarders are warning customers that demand on Asia-Europe ocean trades is beginning to look a lot like the pandemic

May 8, 2024
Total Views: 6679

Vice Admiral Paul Thomas during Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee Hearing: Building the Fleet: Assessing the Department of Homeland Security’s Role in the United States Coast Guard’s Acquisitions Process, May 7, 2024.
Defense

Coast Guard to Start Polar Cutter Construction Before Finalizing Design, Despite Recommendation

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – A congressional hearing about the state of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter program revealed ongoing design

May 8, 2024
Total Views: 7353

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Stock photo of the bow of a ship at anchor
Shipping

London P&I Club Announces Leadership Change

The London P&I Club, a leading provider of marine Protection and Indemnity (P&I), announced today that CEO Ian Gooch will step down from his position

May 7, 2024
Total Views: 1079

A drone view shows a flooded city center after people were evacuated in Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Renan Mattos
Shipping

Flooding Impacts Hit Brazil Grain Port

By Roberto Samora and Ana Mano SAO PAULO, May 7 (Reuters) – Heavy flooding in southern Brazil has hit food storage facilities in lower areas

May 7, 2024
Total Views: 1545

Monday, May 6, 2024
FILE PHOTO: Container vessel Maersk Hangzhou sails in the Wielingen channel, Westerschelde, Netherlands, July 15, 2018. Rene van Quekelberghe/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Shipping

Maersk Continues to Reroute Ships Indefinitely as Houthis Threaten Escalation

A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk), the world’s second-largest ocean carrier, says it will continue to reroute its ships around the Cape of Good Hope for the

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 2172

Greenpeace activists confront the deep sea mining vessel Hidden Gem.
Shipping

Leadership Battle Brewing at Deep Sea Mining’s Regulatory Body

By Todd Woody (Bloomberg) — The secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority is set to run for a third term leading the United

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 1126

M/V Hydrogen One rendering. Illustration credit: Elliott Bay Design Group
Shipbuilding

Hydrogen-Powered Towboat Project Receives Key USCG Approval

Maritime Partners has received a Design Basis Agreement from the U.S. Coast Guard for the M/V Hydrogen One towboat. The Hydrogen One will be use e1 Marine

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 1111

Russian FSRU LNG FPSO
Shipping

EU Eyes Shipping, Violations in New Sanctions Package

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, May 6 (Reuters) – The European Union would ban trans-shipment of Russian LNG, the use of EUports by vessels

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 931

Containers are seen on the Maersk's Triple-E giant container ship Majestic Maersk, one of the world's largest container ships, next to cranes at the APM Terminals in the port of Algeciras, Spain January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Jon Nazca/File Photo
Shipping

Maersk Says Red Sea Disruption Could Cut Asia-Europe Capacity by 20%

COPENHAGEN, May 6 (Reuters) – Disruption to Red Sea container shipping is rising, Maersk said on Monday, forecasting this will cut the

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 1747

Middle East Marine LLC tug vessel
Shipping

ITF Accuses Dubai Company of Abandoning Over 100 Seafarers

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has accused Dubai-based Middle East Marine LLC of systematic abuse and neglect of over 100 seafarers,

May 6, 2024
Total Views: 1460

Sunday, May 5, 2024
The Christophe de Margerie, an ice-class tanker fitted out to transport liquefied natural gas, is docked at the Yamal LNG facility in Arctic port of Sabetta, Yamalo-Nenets district, Russia March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Olesya Astakhova/File Photo
Shipping

How Western Sanctions Are Strangling Putin’s Arctic Gas Ambitions

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) –Russia’s fortress economy has proved remarkably resilient to an onslaught of Western sanctions. Two years

May 5, 2024
Total Views: 1855

Saturday, May 4, 2024
Iranian Warship On The Move Amid Houthi Threat To Attack Ships
Shipping

Iranian Warship On The Move Amid Houthi Threat To Attack Ships

By Arsalan Shahla May 4, 2024(Bloomberg) –An Iranian warship has embarked on a mission in oceanic waters, Iran’s state media reported, in the wake

May 4, 2024
Total Views: 6093

An official slides down a rope during a helicopter raid on MSC Aries ship at sea in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released on April 13, 2024. Video obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS
Shipping

Iran Says Crew Of MSC Aries Freed

(Reuters) – Iran has released the crew of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel, but remains in control of the vessel itself, Foreign

May 4, 2024
Total Views: 1409

Friday, May 3, 2024
Houthi stand on beach after ship attack
Shipping

Houthis Threaten Ship Attacks in Mediterranean Sea

By Mohammed Hatem (Bloomberg) — The Houthi group based in Yemen threatened to start trying to attack ships in the eastern Mediterranean as it steps up a

May 3, 2024
Total Views: 3153

Maersk ship entering the Port of Rotterdam
Shipping

Shippers Frustrated as Spot rates Rise Alongside Demand

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A strengthening demand scenario on the Asia-European trades appears to have caught carriers and forwarders by

May 3, 2024
Total Views: 1041

Thursday, May 2, 2024
White House Readying Sanctions After Russia Found Shipping Fuel to North Korea Above UN Cap
Shipping

White House Readying Sanctions After Russia Found Shipping Fuel to North Korea Above UN Cap

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) – Russia has been quietly shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that

May 2, 2024
Total Views: 1580

Russian FSRU LNG FPSO
Shipping

Russia’s Gazprom Sees First Loss in Two Decades as Gas Trade with Europe Plunges

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Russia’s state-controlled gas giant reported its first annual net loss since 1999 on falling shipments to Europe and

May 2, 2024
Total Views: 1254