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


Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Working Group to Tackle Supply Chain Issues Facing U.S. Dairy Exports
Ports

Working Group to Tackle Supply Chain Issues Facing U.S. Dairy Exports

The Port of Los Angeles, French shipping group CMA CGM, and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) have announced the formation of a working group

January 25, 2022
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Photo shows stacks of containers collapsed on board Madrid Bridge while at the Charleston Anchorage, January 20, 2022.
Accidents

Madrid Bridge Docks in Charleston After Container Collapse

The MV Madrid Bridge docked at the Port of Charleston overnight where it is expected to undergo cargo discharge operations after suffering a container collapse

January 25, 2022
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Monday, January 24, 2022
msc ship in port
Shipping

MSC In Talks to Buy Italian Airline ITA with Lufthansa as Partner

By Francesca Landini and Giulia Segreti ROME, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Swiss-based shipping group MSC and German carrier Lufthansa want to buy the

January 24, 2022
Total Views: 2182

OOCL’s ‘Supercharged’ Earnings Tempered By Falling Volumes
Shipping

OOCL’s ‘Supercharged’ Earnings Tempered By Falling Volumes

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Huge increases in freight rates last year are likely to lead to container carriers reporting record fourth-quarter

January 24, 2022
Total Views: 1591

shipping container
Shipping

Book Review: ‘Arriving Today’ by Christopher Mims

By Ira Breskin Arriving Today is an insightful, first-to-market analysis of persistent, pandemic-induced international supply chain snafus that have become

January 24, 2022
Total Views: 1506

New Ship And Supply Trackers Flash Caution Amid Omicron Worries
Shipping

New Ship And Supply Trackers Flash Caution Amid Omicron Worries

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) Global supply chains are nearing a turning point that’s set to help determine whether logistics headwinds abate soon or keep

January 24, 2022
Total Views: 1561

Friday, January 21, 2022
lng carrier
Shipping

China Looks to Resell LNG as World Grapples With Gas Shortage

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — China, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, kicked off an unprecedented effort to resell its

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 3388

New Zealand Navy Ship Arrives in Tonga Carrying Fresh Water
Shipping

New Zealand Navy Ship Arrives in Tonga Carrying Fresh Water

By Praveen Menon, Kirsty Needham and Tom Westbrook WELLINGTON/SYDNEY, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Life-saving water supplies from a New

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 4239

No Joke: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Stars Buy Decommissioned Staten Island Ferry
Shipping

No Joke: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Stars Buy Decommissioned Staten Island Ferry

All jokes aside… “Saturday Night Live” stars Pete Davidson and Colin Jost have apparently been revealed as the buyers of a decommissioned Staten

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 28879

CMA CGM and TotalEnergies Launch Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering in Marseille
Shipping

CMA CGM and TotalEnergies Launch Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering in Marseille

France-based CMA CGM and TotalEnergies have launched the first ship-to-containership bunkering service in France’s Port of Marseille. The new service

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 1696

Asia-US West Coast Spot Rates Spike Ahead of Chinese New Year
Shipping

Asia-US West Coast Spot Rates Spike Ahead of Chinese New Year

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to the US west coast spiked this week, ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday on 1

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 1201

Oil Tanker Bridge
Shipping

ABS Withdraws Certification for Two Oil Tankers Over Iran Sanctions

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Two tankers have had their environmental and safety classification withdrawn by a U.S. company that provides

January 21, 2022
Total Views: 2442

Thursday, January 20, 2022
Smiles Up In the Great Lakes as Soo Locks Upgrade Gets Full Funding
Shipping

Smiles Up In the Great Lakes as Soo Locks Upgrade Gets Full Funding

There were smiles all around in the Great Lakes this week- especially around the Soo Locks in northern Michigan. These locks link Lake Superior, where

January 20, 2022
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Tsunami Induced Oil Spill in Peru Declared Environmental Emergency
Shipping

Tsunami Induced Oil Spill in Peru Declared Environmental Emergency

By Marco Aquino LIMA, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo declared an environmental emergency on Thursday as clean-up teams struggled to

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 2999

NYK and Knutsen Group Launch Liquefied CO2 Shipping Company
Environment

NYK and Knutsen Group Launch Liquefied CO2 Shipping Company

Japan’s NYK and Norwegian shipping company Knutsen Group have announced plans to launch joint venture liquified CO2 shipping and storage company. The

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 1662

cosco containership
Shipping

China’s COSCO Pays Huge Bonuses 30 Times Worker’s Salary Amid Container Shipping Boom

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Asian shipping companies are offering mega bonuses to employees amid a boom in freight rates, with China’s state-owned

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 18070

Suiso Frontier hydrogen ship
Shipping

World’s First Hydrogen Tanker to Ship Maiden Cargo from Australia to Japan

By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A Japanese-Australian venture producing hydrogen from brown coal is set to ship its maiden cargo on the

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 3561

Maersk Line, Limited Tanker Makes Nighttime Rescue in Aegean Sea
Shipping

Maersk Line, Limited Tanker Makes Nighttime Rescue in Aegean Sea

The crew of a Maersk Line, Limited tanker conducted a nighttime rescue of a mariner who was in the water for 24 hours after his vessel capsized in the

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 5567

yantian port
Shipping

Ship Arrivals to China’s Yantian Port Delayed by a Week

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Containers are stacking up at the already backed-up Shenzhen port in China as congestion in the U.S. and Europe ripples

January 20, 2022
Total Views: 1522

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
lng carrier
Shipping

China’s Sinopec Issues Tender for Up to 45 LNG Cargoes

SINGAPORE, Jan 19 (Reuters) – China’s Sinopec Corp has issued a tender to sell up to 45 cargoes of liquefied natural gas for 2022 deliveries, in a

January 19, 2022
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