Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that.
The Yemeni Houthi rebels’ continued attacks on shipping in the Red Sea serve as a reminder that global supply chains remain highly vulnerable to disruption. Moreover, it highlights how food insecurity can simultaneously be an effect and cause of conflict.
Capital Link’s eighteenth annual International Shipping Forum will take place on Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. The forum is held in partnership with Citi and in cooperation with NYSE and Nasdaq. Held in New York City every year, the forum is known for its large attendance by ..
Among the grim news emanating from every quarter, which filled the morning newspapers recently, was the frightful threat of a shortage of tea.
Best Electric Cargo Vessel – Hydromover – Lita Ocean A very interesting and innovative craft, Hydromover is an impressive electric powered aluminium catamaran built in Singapore. It is a tribute to the capabilities and competence of Lita Ocean that it was awarded the complex building contract. Impressively, as well as ..
US-based dry bulk shipping company the Foremost Group has confirmed that Angela Chao, its Chair and Chief Executive Officer, has tragically passed away following a vehicular accident.
Baird Maritime once more highlights the ever important fishing and aquaculture sector by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service around the world.
Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that. China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build two additional ice-class tankers in a series for Swedish shipowner Furetank. As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again.
BOOK REVIEW | BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975
Chinese yard to build two additional ice-class ships for Sweden’s Furetank
OPINION | Drought and war hit the choke points
Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that. China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build two additional ice-class tankers in a series for Swedish shipowner Furetank. As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again.
BOOK REVIEW | BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975
Chinese yard to build two additional ice-class ships for Sweden’s Furetank
OPINION | Drought and war hit the choke points
The Yemeni Houthi rebels’ continued attacks on shipping in the Red Sea serve as a reminder that global supply chains remain highly vulnerable to disruption. Moreover, it highlights how food insecurity can simultaneously be an effect and cause of conflict.
To ensure safer maritime journeys in Europe, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement to revise the 2009 directive on the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector.
As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again.
The Indian Navy has successfully gained control of a foreign-flagged cargo vessel that was held captive by Somali pirates for months following its hijacking in the Arabian Sea late last year.
Vietnamese news outlets report that one person is confirmed dead while two others have gone missing after a fishing vessel and a locally-registered cargo ship collided with each other off Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam on Friday, February 23.
Norwegian state-owned financing agency Enova will be allocating NOK76.6 million (US$7.27 million) for the installation of electric propulsion systems on both new and existing vessels that will operate in Norwegian waters.
The Romanian government has given its approval for the expansion of the southern sector of the Port of Constanta on Romania’s Black Sea coast.
A DKK1 billion (US$145.9 milion) tender has been launched calling for interested parties to submit proposals for the expansion of the Port of Hirtshals in Denmark.
A consortium of international institutions is supporting the development of a second container terminal in Damietta Port in Egypt, thus tripling the port’s container capacity.
The Yemeni Houthi rebels’ continued attacks on shipping in the Red Sea serve as a reminder that global supply chains remain highly vulnerable to disruption. Moreover, it highlights how food insecurity can simultaneously be an effect and cause of conflict.
Japan Marine United (JMU) has handed over a new freight-only Ro-Ro vessel to compatriot shipping company Asuka Kisen for operation under charter with JFE Logistics Corporation.
A cargo vessel has been refitted with systems that will allow it to be remotely operated as part of a broader project seeking to introduce a fleet of such ships in Germany’s inland waters.
Of all the problems confronting the nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) component of AUKUS, perhaps the most significant, yet relatively unremarked upon, concerns the question of how the submarines will contribute to deterrence.
Warren, Rhode Island-based boatbuilder Blount Boats has launched a new crewboat ordered by American Offshore Services (AOS), a partnership between Swedish offshore vessel operator the Northern Offshore Group and US-based investment firm OIC.
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