Shipping

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


Tuesday, May 24, 2022
National Maritime Day in New York: MAPONY’s International Maritime Hall of Fame Awards
Shipping

National Maritime Day in New York: MAPONY’s International Maritime Hall of Fame Awards

Last week, the New York maritime scene had National Maritime Day (on May 22) celebratory event that included the annual International Maritime Hall of Fame

May 24, 2022
Total Views: 796

A bulk carrier departs the Port of Odessa prior to the war. Image courtesy VolodymyrT / Shutterstock.com
Shipping

Ukraine Seeks Ways to Get Grain Out

By Pavel Polityuk and Silvia Aloisi KYIV, May 24 (Reuters) – Ukraine is seeking ways to get grain and vegetable oils out of the country by breaking a

May 24, 2022
Total Views: 1635

Monday, May 23, 2022
Trucks At Port Of LA
Shipping

Stressed-Out Supply Chain Managers Throwing in the Towel in Search of Greener Pastures

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina (Bloomberg) — Supply-chain managers quit their jobs last year at the highest rate since at least 2016 due to a mix of burnout

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 5007

Containership Transit Times, Not Simply Backlog Counts, Could Offer Clearer Picture of Shipping Crisis, Windward Says
Shipping

Containership Transit Times, Not Simply Backlog Counts, Could Offer Clearer Picture of Shipping Crisis, Windward Says

Backlogs of ships waiting outside major ports across the world is perhaps the most visible sign of the on-going global container shipping crisis and issues in

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 4766

A Port State Control inspection in Nine Mile Anchorage
Shipping

Bulk Carrier Chief Engineer Pleads Guilty to Ilegal Discharges, Cover-Up

The Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged bulk carrier has pleaded guilty in U.S. court to two felony counts for deliberately discharging oil-contaminated bilge

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 9541

Cargo ship Guangdong Port
Shipping

Russia’s War in Ukraine, China’s COVID-19 Lockdowns ‘Darken’ Outlook for Global Economy, WTO Says

Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns are adding additional risks to the global trade recovery, the World Trade Organization said

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 1469

Maersk Supply Service AHTS to Support Ocean Plastics Cleanup Effort for Another Year
Shipping

Maersk Supply Service AHTS to Support Ocean Plastics Cleanup Effort for Another Year

Two anchor-handling tugs belonging to Maersk Supply Service will return to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch having extended their contract with The Ocean

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 2585

A COSCO ship at the port of long beach
Shipping

Long Beach Port Chief Doesn’t See Labor Deal by July 1 Deadline

By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) — The head of the US’s second-busiest port doesn’t see talks over new labor contracts for 22,000 dockworkers at 29

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 2665

Sunday, May 22, 2022
Happy National Maritime Day!
Shipping

Happy National Maritime Day!

Happy National Maritime Day! National Maritime Day dates back to a joint resolution approved by Congress on May 20, 1933 designating May 22 of each year as

May 22, 2022
Total Views: 2005

LNG tanker
Shipping

Poland Interested In Trans-Shipping LNG Through Portugal

WARSAW, May 20 (Reuters) – Poland would be interested in cooperating with Portugal on potential LNG trans-shipping, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

May 22, 2022
Total Views: 3930

Saturday, May 21, 2022
Coffee Shipped by Sailboats In Efforts To Disrupt The Heavy Ships’ Command Of The High Seas
Shipping

Coffee Shipped by Sailboats In Efforts To Disrupt The Heavy Ships’ Command Of The High Seas

By Irina Anghel and Eamon Akil Farhat May 21, 2022,(Bloomberg) –There’s never been a more dreamy way to have your coffee delivered than a sailboat

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 32640

Russia Stops Gas Supply To Finland Over Refusal To Pay In Rubles
Shipping

Russia Stops Gas Supply To Finland Over Refusal To Pay In Rubles

By Kati Pohjanpalo (Bloomberg) –Russia has cut Finland off from its natural gas supplies as relations between the two neighbors sour over the Nordic

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 1497

Suez Canal Revenues Set To Reach $7 Billion By End Of Fiscal Year 
Shipping

Suez Canal Revenues Set To Reach $7 Billion By End Of Fiscal Year 

CAIRO May 21 (Reuters) – Egypt expects the Suez Canal’s revenues to reach about $7 billion by the end of the current fiscal year, finance

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 794

New LNG Deal Will Allow Finland, Estonia to End Russian Gas Imports
Shipping

New LNG Deal Will Allow Finland, Estonia to End Russian Gas Imports

By Sergio Chapa (Bloomberg) —Excelerate Energy Inc. signed a 10-year deal to move a ship that stores liquefied natural gas to Finland, allowing the

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 6655

Friday, May 20, 2022
port of deluth
Shipping

Great Lakes Shipping Sees Strong Start to the Season Led by Grain Exports

Shipping on the Great Lakes has kicked off with a bang this season as ports in the region step up to fill the global void of grain caused by

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 1712

FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers are seen at the container terminal of the port of Oakland, California, U.S., October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Shipping

Container Shipping Earned ‘Mind-Bending’ $59.3 Billion Quarterly Profit -McCown

Ocean carriers raked in a “mind-bending” $59.3 billion profit in the first quarter of the year—the highest quarterly earnings in container

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 4825

Sovcomflot ship bridge
Shipping

Russian Oil Producers Snap Up Sovcomflot Tankers Shunned By Rest of the World

By Debjit Chakraborty, Julian Lee and Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — Russian oil producers are starting to book up an increasing number of tankers

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 6909

vlcc tanker
Shipping

China Quietly Ramping Up Purchases of Cheap Russian Oil

By Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) – China is quietly ramping up purchases of oil from Russia at bargain prices,

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 1926

Breakbulk Europe: Uncertainty Surrounding Future Fuels
Shipping

Breakbulk Europe: Uncertainty Surrounding Future Fuels

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

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 710

Carriers’ Blank Sailings Check Rates Decline as Regulators Watch On
Shipping

Carriers’ Blank Sailings Check Rates Decline as Regulators Watch On

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The ‘drip-drip’ erosion of container spot rates on the transpacific and Asia-Europe tradelanes since the Chinese

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 1461