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


Monday, November 29, 2021
Reluctant Merchants Are Embracing Amazon’s Chartered Ships This Holiday Season
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Reluctant Merchants Are Embracing Amazon’s Chartered Ships This Holiday Season

By Matt Day and Spencer Soper (Bloomberg) –Most cargo ships putting into the port of Everett, Washington, brim with cement and

November 29, 2021
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Saturday, November 27, 2021
Stock photo of a tanker being escorted by a tug in New York harbor
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IMO MEPC77: Not Entering The Harbor Just Yet

The International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s MEPC77 meetings have ended; though the dialogue had its moments, there were no dramatic pronouncements coming

November 27, 2021
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Friday, November 26, 2021
HMM containership in port
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South Korean Government to Launch Search for HMM Buyer Next Year

By Martina Li in Taiwan (The Loadstar) By the end of Q1 22, a roadmap to sell the South Korean government’s stake in flagship liner HMM will be unveiled,

November 26, 2021
Total Views: 1482

smoke pollution coming from a container ship
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Critical IMO Meeting Fails to Speed Up Shipping’s Decarbonization

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Further shipping talks are scheduled for next year after delegates at a U.N. agency meeting that

November 26, 2021
Total Views: 595

U.S. Tankers Begin Delivering Fuel To Flood Ravaged British Columbia
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U.S. Tankers Begin Delivering Fuel To Flood Ravaged British Columbia

By Robert Tuttle and Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg) –British Columbia has begun receiving U.S. fuel supplies by sea to help ease shortages

November 26, 2021
Total Views: 1872

Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Longshoremen China
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China’s Covid Zero Policy Towards Seafarers Escalates Supply Chain Crisis

By K. Oanh Ha and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) —China’s increasingly extreme Covid Zero policies are standing in the way of a full recovery for the

November 24, 2021
Total Views: 2919

Toymaker’s ‘War Room’ Goes 24/7 To Secure Spots On Containers And Ships
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Toymaker’s ‘War Room’ Goes 24/7 To Secure Spots On Containers And Ships

By Amelia Pollard (Bloomberg) –The journey of Tonka’s Mighty Dump Truck toy from its Asian factory to U.S. stores offers a window into

November 24, 2021
Total Views: 5590

Port Of Vancouver, Canada
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Shipping Cost And Delays Are Prompting Companies To Look Towards Canadian And U.S. Suppliers

By Allison Lampert and Julie Gordon, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Global shipping and supply chain bottlenecks are encouraging Canadian firms to bring

November 24, 2021
Total Views: 1559

Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Hapag-Lloyd’s Rerouted Container Service Makes First Call at JAXPORT
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Hapag-Lloyd’s Rerouted Container Service Makes First Call at JAXPORT

Hapag-Lloyd’s European-US container service made its inaugural visit to the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) over the weekend. The shipping line’s

November 23, 2021
Total Views: 2847

Judge Gavel
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Eight More Merchant Mariners Charged in Test-Score Fixing Scheme

Eight additional current and former merchant mariners have been indicted related to a test score-fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center in

November 23, 2021
Total Views: 3484

Los Angeles and Long Beach Container Dwell Times Rose to Record in October
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Los Angeles and Long Beach Container Dwell Times Rose to Record in October

By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) — The number of days containers are waiting to be picked up by trucks at California’s neighboring ports of Los Angeles

November 23, 2021
Total Views: 848

Biden Orders Release of Strategic Petroleum Reserves in Challenge to OPEC+
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Biden Orders Release of Strategic Petroleum Reserves in Challenge to OPEC+

By Ari Natter, Jennifer Jacobs, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Annmarie Hordern (Bloomberg) — The U.S. will release 50 million barrels of crude from its

November 23, 2021
Total Views: 973

Monday, November 22, 2021
imo headquarters
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IMO Kicks Off MEPC 77 Meeting to Consider Shipping’s Path Towards Decarbonization

The long-anticipated IMO MEPC 77 meeting (more officially the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Environmental Protection Committee 77th meeting)

November 22, 2021
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Stacked containers and cranes are shown at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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San Pedro Bay Ports Again Postpone Container Dwell Fees

The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach will once again postpone the new “Container Dwell Fee” as over 45,000 containers continue to linger on

November 22, 2021
Total Views: 1361

houston ship channel
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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Awarded $92.5 Million Houston Ship Channel Dredging Contract

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) has announced the signing of a $92.5 million dredging contract for the Houston Ship Channel widening

November 22, 2021
Total Views: 1763

CMA CGM Sails to Top of Carrier Earnings List in Q3
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CMA CGM Sails to Top of Carrier Earnings List in Q3

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM has shot to the top of the Q3 carrier earnings league table, posting a net profit of $5.6bn for the period.

November 22, 2021
Total Views: 945

bulk carrier at sea
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Drybulk Support: On The Charts and From The Big Players

Even though it has pulled back from its October highs, the drybulk market is still of keen interest, if the attendance at last week’s Marine Money conference

November 22, 2021
Total Views: 565

Container ships wait off the coast of the congested Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Long Beach, California
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Is The U.S. Moving Cargo And Filling The Shelves?

by Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. – Last week the White House released their second statement on the current supply-chain crisis.  The initial blog

November 22, 2021
Total Views: 5029

Saturday, November 20, 2021
smoke pollution coming from a container ship
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IMO Is Challenged With Steering Its 175 Member States Toward Cleaner Shipping

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –Global talks on how to clean up shipping are set to begin Monday as momentum builds to cut pollution from the

November 20, 2021
Total Views: 980

Oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz
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Iran Seizes Vessel And Crew Carrying Smuggled Fuel

Nov 20 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had seized a foreign ship in Gulf waters loaded with what they described as

November 20, 2021
Total Views: 2927