Toll Group unveiled the largest general cargo vessel to fly the Australian flag in a ceremony on Sunday, February 17.

China’s first aircraft carrier, the Ukrainian-built Liaoning, was commissioned into the PLA Navy in 2012, after the Chinese had carried extensive refurbishment and modernisation work, and China reportedly plans to establish a force of at least four large aircraft carriers. Liaoning’s Chinese-built near sister ship, currently dubbed the Type 001A, has already undergone sea trials, and might be commissioned as early as April 2019. It will probably be named Shandong.

The captain of a Thai tour boat faces a criminal charge of recklessness resulting in injury as well as suspension of his operator’s licence after his vessel struck an oil tanker off Phuket earlier in the month.

There are substantially fewer nuclear weapons today than at the height of the Cold War. Yet the overall risks of nuclear war – by design, accident, rogue launch or system error – have grown in the second nuclear age. That’s because more countries with fragile command-and-control systems possess these deadly weapons. Terrorists want them, and they are vulnerable to human error, system malfunction and cyberattack.

Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding recently launched a new chemical tanker for Odfjell Group of Norway.

Hapag-Lloyd is set to retrofit the 15,000TEU containership Sajir to enable its engine system to operate using either LNG or low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO).

Among the many questions raised by the massive modernisation and expansion of China’s Navy in the last few years is its future role in the Indian Ocean. Will the Indian Ocean become a Chinese lake?

Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a contract for the transportation of a large number of modules for a North American LNG export facility.

Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL) has used an electronic bill of lading (e-BL) built on IBM’s blockchain platform in a real-time plot tracking shipment of 28 tonnes of mandarin oranges from China for the Lunar New Year celebrations.

South Korea’s Sinokor Merchant Marine has contracted three shipyards in China to build 20 containerships that will be delivered during the 2020-2021 timeframe.