Shipping

Parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil-shipping lanes, will be closed for “several hours” on Tuesday as part of Iran’s

Russia could deploy its navy to prevent European powers from seizing its vessels and may retaliate against European shipping if Russian ships are taken,

Ship traffic in the Arctic reached a new milestone in 2025, with 1,812 unique vessels operating inside the Polar Code area, according to new data released by

Russia has dispatched two powerful icebreakers, including a nuclear-powered vessel, from Arctic waters to the Baltic Sea to help keep shipping lanes open as

Operations at the floating LNG import facility Mukran off the Baltic coast of Germany resumed this week after icebreaking efforts by the multipurpose vessel

A niche but crucial part of the oil market is being rocked by a huge bet from a South Korean tycoon who has amassed a large share of the tanker market

Container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd HLAG.DE said on Monday it would buy Israeli rival ZIM Integrated Shipping Services ZIM.Nfor $4.2 billion in a

Hapag-Lloyd AG is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli competitor Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, the German company said on

U.S. forces have boarded the sanctioned oil tanker VERONICA III in the Indian Ocean, marking the ninth vessel seized or interdicted in an intensifying

New data compiled by the Danish Maritime Authority reveals that EU-sanctioned tankers linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” made 292 voyages

Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company has reached a new milestone, pushing its total containership capacity past 7.2 million TEU and solidifying its

A coalition of environmental and clean-shipping groups is urging the International Maritime Organization to block any move that would allow ammonia-fueled

The Danish toy giant LEGO is set to launch a new collector’s set celebrating Maersk’s methanol-powered flagship, Ane Maersk. The Maersk Dual-Fuel

Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison has escalated a legal fight over its Panama Canal port concessions, triggering treaty arbitration and raising uncertainty over

Five sailors are dead because no one acted in time. A final investigation into the German Bight collision that sank the cargo ship Verity finds basic collision

South Korea’s HMM managed to stay in the black through a bruising 2025 for container shipping, posting a 13.4% operating margin even as freight rates

Global container shipping rates fell for a fifth consecutive week as the usual pre-Lunar New Year cargo surge failed to materialize, prompting carriers to ramp

The Trump administration warned that Peru is losing sovereignty over a Chinese-owned port near its capital city, after a local judge ruled that the port is

Hapag-Lloyd reported preliminary 2025 financial results that came in at the upper end of its guidance, even as earnings fell sharply from the prior year amid

NATO will bolster its Arctic presence with a new mission after US President Donald Trump triggered an alliance crisis over his attempts to take