Shell to Fuel World’s First LNG-powered Aframax Oil Tankers

A unit of Royal Dutch Shell will fuel the world’s first LNG-powered Aframax crude oil tankers under a deal signed with Russian shipping company...

Shipping Container Price Spike Points to Global Trade Growth

Prices for shipping containers, the metal boxes that carry 90 percent of the world's manufactured goods, have risen to their highest since October 2015,...

CMA CGM Rolls Out OCEAN Alliance Services for Maritime Clients

French container shipping company CMA CGM Group has launched 40 new maritime services under its OCEAN Alliance operational coalition, which was announced in April...

Passengers Pray as Huge Cargo Ship Collides

Passengers filmed the shocking moment a large cargo ship rammed into a small boat before it sunk. The crash on Nicaragua's Escondido River was caught...

Ship Hijacked Moved to an Undisclosed Location Off the Somali Coast

Pirates who hijacked an Indian cargo dhow with 11 crew members onboard have moved the vessel to an undisclosed location off the Somali coast...

Cargo Ship Catches Fire Off Colombo Coast

The Indian Navy sent two ships to help a cargo vessel which had caught fire off the coast of Colombo. What happened? On Tuesday, a fire...

ABB to Acquire B&R

Shaping leadership in industrial automation Acquisition of B&R (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH) will close ABB’s historic gap in machine and factory automation Creating...

Shaking Liquefies Iron Ore! Did it Sink the Giant Vessel?

Over the weekend a tragedy had reportedly unfolded suddenly in the South Atlantic rocked the shipping world. What happened? The Stellar Daisy, a bulk carrier roughly...

First Time Ever Woman Captain of NYK Ship

Woman Made Captain of NYK Ship for First Time Ever For the first time in its 132 year history, Japan’s largest shipping company Nippon Yusen...

Liberian Registry Makes Key Appointments in Tokyo

The Liberian Registry has appointed Eiji Okazaki as president of the Tokyo office operated by its US-based manager, the Liberian International Ship & Corporate...