‘Out of Control’ Box Ship Charter Market Continues Bull Run
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The box ship charter market is continuing its bull run, with daily hire rates in some sectors now “out of
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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The box ship charter market is continuing its bull run, with daily hire rates in some sectors now “out of
Shipping consultancy Drewry says the shipping industry should brace for a shortage of officers to crew the world’s commercial fleet in the coming years,
By Barry Parker Shipping’s relationship with the general news media has never been a good one. Secrecy of individual companies, based on tradition, and
CAIRO, June 3 (Reuters) – The speed of a container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March was controlled by the Egyptian waterway’s operator
BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) – Major shipping companies have warned clients of worsening congestion at Shenzen’s Yantian port in southern
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) – The European Union will push for tougher standards to cut the CO2 emissions intensity of ships at a meeting
By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — The world’s largest container shipping line has called for a $150-a-ton carbon tax on shipping fuel that would drive
By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign
By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) – Carbon emissions produced from seaborne coal exports stayed steady last year despite the impact of the
By Selcan Hacaoglu (Bloomberg) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the construction of a multi-billion dollar canal, an alternative to
It’s been a wild year for UK-based OneWeb. Less than a seven months after emerging from bankruptcy, the satellite communications “start-up”
By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — One of the world’s busiest ports could see shipments delayed as a Covid-19 outbreak that earlier closed part of the
By Abdel Latif Wahba and Salma El Wardany (Bloomberg) — An Egypt court on Saturday adjourned a case on the container ship that blocked the Suez
JAKARTA, May 29 (Reuters) – An Iranian-flagged tanker seized by Indonesia in January over the suspected illegal transfer of oil has been released, an
The U.S. Coast Guard is reminding boaters to be celebrate safely this Memorial Day Weekend. This week, the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary have
A 366-meter-long containership grounded in the Suez Canal on Friday, but was refloated and ship traffic was able to continue through the waterway. The ship is
Australia has booted another Aswan Shipping bulk carrier from its ports for serious deficiencies related to vessel maintenance and sub-standard working and
By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — The cost to move goods in a shipping container to Europe from Asia shot above $10,000 for the first time on record, an
By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Congestion levels at the major North America container gateways are now expected to persist until the summer, as
By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China is clamping down on some corn imports amid concern that overseas purchases have spiraled out of control, prompting
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