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


Monday, March 31, 2025
A foreign cargo ship is seen in front of a port after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico September 24, 2017.
Ports

Coast Guard Discovers Illegal Ammonia Shipment at Puerto Rico Terminal Already Under Safety Restrictions

A Coast Guard inspection team has discovered an unauthorized shipment of Anhydrous Ammonia at Puerto Nuevo Terminals (PNT) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a facility

March 31, 2025
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French frigate escort. Photo: EUNAVFOR
Piracy

Shipping Industry Unveils New Maritime Security Playbook as Global Threats Escalate

Major maritime industry associations have jointly released a comprehensive security guidebook aimed at protecting vessels and crews amid escalating global

March 31, 2025
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Friday, March 28, 2025
A cargo ship full of shipping containers is seen at the port of Oakland as trade tensions escalate over U.S. tariffs.
Shipping

Shipowners Are Adjusting Contracts for US Tax on China Vessels

Shipowners and charterers are altering leasing contracts to cope with the multi-million dollar port fees expected to be imposed on Chinese-built vessels by the

March 28, 2025
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Car-Shipping Companies Plunge After Trump’s Latest Tariffs
Shipping

Car-Shipping Companies Plunge After Trump’s Latest Tariffs

Shares of companies that haul cars across oceans plunged after President Trump widened his trade war with tariffs on vehicles not made in the

March 27, 2025
Total Views: 1673

Pure car and truck carrier in port
Shipping

Planned US Auto Tariffs Shake Global Industry as Price Hikes, Job Losses Loom

The United States' announcement of a 25% tariff on auto imports rippled throughout the world on Thursday, as global vehicle suppliers warned of immediate price

March 27, 2025
Total Views: 1198

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Global Shipping Insurance May Shift If Russia Sanctions End, Bimco Says
Shipping

Global Shipping Insurance May Shift If Russia Sanctions End, Bimco Says

The global shipping industry should be open to working with a new group of insurers that emerged to support Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, provided they

March 26, 2025
Total Views: 1371

HMM Takes Delivery of Its First Methanol-Powered Containership
Shipping

HMM Takes Delivery of Its First Methanol-Powered Containership

South Korean shipping line HMM has taken delivery of the HMM Green (above), the first in a series of nine 9,000 teu methanol-fuelled containerships being

March 26, 2025
Total Views: 1371

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Germany Starts Producing Climate-Neutral Marine Methanol from Wastewater
Shipping

Germany Starts Producing Climate-Neutral Marine Methanol from Wastewater

Globally the shipping sector contributes around 706 million tons of CO2 emissions each year, around 3 percent of the total. The majority of containership

March 25, 2025
Total Views: 1591

CMA CGM Iron docked in Singapore - stern view
Shipping

Despite Sourcing Shifts, ‘Don’t Write-off China’, Says CMA CGM CCO

China cannot be written off completely from supply chains, despite tension with the US and manufacturing shifts towards South-east Asia, according to CMA

March 25, 2025
Total Views: 1290

COSCO ship in port
Shipping

Shippers, Steelmakers Spar Over Trump Levies for Chinese Vessels

US lawmakers, labor unions and steel manufacturers were at odds with shipping companies and farm exporters Monday over a Trump administration proposal to put

March 25, 2025
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Monday, March 24, 2025
Chinese NewNew Shipping Line To Expand Arctic Container Service After Profitable 2024 Operation
Shipping

Chinese NewNew Shipping Line To Expand Arctic Container Service After Profitable 2024 Operation

Chinese box carrier NewNew Shipping Line has announced the expansion of its Arctic service for 2025. At the first-ever Russian-Chinese logistics conference

March 24, 2025
Total Views: 2590

Sunday, March 23, 2025
A worker on a container crane at the Port of Los Angeles
Shipping

Billion-Dollar US Levies On Chinese Ships Risk ‘Trade Apocalypse’

By Laura Curtis, Weilun Soon and James Attwood Mar 23, 2025 (Bloomberg) –For a symbol of the chaos engulfing world trade since the Trump

March 23, 2025
Total Views: 5411

Russian navy rehearses firing rockets in Black Sea
Shipping

US Delegation Aims For Maritime Ceasefire In The Black Sea

By Pesha Magid and Pavel Polityuk RIYADH/KYIV, March 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. delegation will seek progress toward a Black Sea ceasefire and a broader

March 23, 2025
Total Views: 1206

submarine cable map
Shipping

China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter, SCMP Reports

By Bei Hu Mar 22, 2025 (Bloomberg) —China revealed for the first time that it has developed a compact deep-sea cable cutting device that is powerful

March 23, 2025
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
A cargo ship full of shipping containers is seen at the port of Oakland as trade tensions escalate over U.S. tariffs.
Shipping

US Trade Chief To Speak With Chinese Counterpart As Tariff Rift Widens

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jarrett Renshaw and David Lawder WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s top trade chief, Jamieson Greer,

March 22, 2025
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Friday, March 21, 2025
The CMA CGM Marco Polo passes under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, to enter New York Harbor as seen from Brooklyn, New York
Shipping

USTR’s Proposed China Port Fees Could Cost Container Shipping Over $100 Billion, Expert Warns

A proposed U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) fee structure targeting Chinese-built ships and operators could cost the container shipping sector alone over

March 21, 2025
Total Views: 3938

Stock photo of a tanker at sea
Shipping

Russia Ships Arctic Oil to Syria for First Time

Two tankers hit by U.S. sanctions are due to offload Russian Arctic Oil in Syria for the first time, days after Moscow made its first known delivery of diesel

March 21, 2025
Total Views: 2358

Aerial of Liquified Natural Gas LNG carrier moored to a small gas terminal
Shipping

First U.S. Offshore LNG Export Terminal Gets Green Light from Maritime Administration

The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has issued a license to Delfin LNG, LLC for the construction and operation of the

March 21, 2025
Total Views: 2923

rongsheng heavy industries shipyard shipbuilding
Shipping

Why China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance is Important to the United States

By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D., What’s Going on With Shipping As a historian and analyst of American maritime policy, the actions by China do demonstrate

March 21, 2025
Total Views: 3421

philly shipyard
Shipbuilding

Majority of Americans Support Domestic Shipbuilding as National Security Priority, New Poll Reveals

A new poll released today reveals overwhelming support among Americans for strengthening domestic shipbuilding capabilities, with 72% agreeing that the United

March 21, 2025
Total Views: 1512