Following two vessel hijackings in recent days a tanker reported being approached by pirates while sailing in the Indian Ocean.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quitting the Opec and Opec+ groups of major oil producing nations next month after nearly 60 years of membership.
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection, and certification (TIC), declared its vision for the future of maritime trade during Singapore Maritime Week, with Executive Vice-President, Industrials & Commodities, Matthieu de Tugny delivering a keynote address detailing how digitalization, artificial intelligence, and the energy transition are fundamentally reshaping shipping and the global value chains it underpins.
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The 141m-long vessel, linked to a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, cleared the waterway despite an ongoing blockade.
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Australia has commenced its first live shipboard trial of S‑100 digital navigation data, with dynamic tidal and current information now being tested on the bridge of operational cruise vessels in Sydney Harbour.
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The Ulsan Port Authority (UPA) announced the successful completion of the world’s first ammonia bunkering operation for an ammonia dual-fuel gas carrier at Ulsan Port on April 23, 2026.
Indian officials, during an inter-ministerial meeting on Monday, revealed the details of an incident over the weekend during which a small product tanker with Indian seafarers was shot at by the IRGC.
A Japanese tanker has crossed the Hormuz Strait from the Arabian Gulf today along with a Chinese tanker and SeaLead container ship.
For the third time this month, Ukraine's drone forces have launched a long-range attack on the Russian port of Tuapse, hitting oil export and refining infrastructure that contributes to the financing of the ongoing invasion.
The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk freight index was up for a second session on Tuesday, adding 11 points to 2,677 points, driven by gains across all vessel segments.
In the first quarter of 2026 Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation reported a net profit of RMB2.17 billion ($310 million) up 206.7% year-on-year.
After nearly a decade of relative pause, China has resumed large-scale island-building in the South China Sea. Satellite images of Antelope Reef show a once-submerged feature rapidly transformed into what could become one of Beijing’s largest outposts in the region.
The emerging market for ammonia-fueled commercial shipping achieved its next milestone with the first-ever port-to-ship bunkering on an ocean-going vessel.
On Sunday, a scrap metal fire broke out aboard a bulker at the Newport Docks port complex in Wales, drawing a major emergency response to the scene.
South Korea’s antitrust regulators have taken the unusual step of extending a series of restrictions imposed on several of Hanwha’s companies as a condition for the 2023 acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.
The British Army, for the first time in more than 20 years, has chartered a civilian ferry to transport its forces. It is putting a good light on the operation by saying it is helping the army to practice how to use civilian transport alongside military vehicles and aircraft as it participates in a major military exercise with NATO in Germany
For decades, probably much longer, traders based in Iran have crossed the Strait of Hormuz, bringing goods to Oman’s Musandam governorate, bartering their cargos with merchants in Khasab, and then returning with cargoes of whatever is in short supply in Iran.
From splash247.com
Familiar patterns of procedural delay are emerging at this week’s critical UN shipping summit in London, with sources close to the negotiations warning that the most contentious decisions are being deliberately deferred to the final hours of the meeting – leaving little time for meaningful resolution.
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Dee4 Capital Partners Fund II has snapped up a second ultramax, continuing its well-timed push into high-quality Japanese-built tonnage.
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The Mission to Seafarers is extending its welfare measurement work beyond the ship’s rail, launching a new Shorebased Happiness Index to capture the wellbeing of maritime professionals working on land for the first time.
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Swiss commodities trader Mercuria is continuing its move deeper into shipownership with an order for four kamsarmax bulk carriers at Wuhu Shipyard.
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China United Lines (CULines) has re-entered the newbuilding market with an order for four 6,400 teu containerships. The Shanghai-based intra-Asian carrier has contracted CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding in Guangzhou for the series, with CSSC Trading involved in the deal.
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But changes beginning to show on weather models
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Will support grain handling, storage facilities upgrade
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Canola down after record-setting harvest, FAS says
