Maritime Briefing of 12 September 2026

along with maps of a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said the zone would begin where the US blockade begins and that any ship entering it would be added to a sanctions list, and that the corridor lies in Iranian and Omani waters under Iranian management. US Central Command said it had by then redirected 92 commercial vessels, disabled three and boarded two. Iran's oil minister Mohsen Paknejad said the Khark export terminal had been hit around 550 times in previous months and continued to operate.

over any military role in the Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei issued the warning in a Korean-language statement on 7 September while Seoul was weighing contributions to freedom of navigation alongside the US, the UK and France. South Korea's defence ministry said no specific measures had been approved.

Maritime security firm Ambrey recorded 91 finds of unexploded ordnance, unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned surface vessels along the region's coastlines.

after vessels carrying Filipino seafarers were struck in the northern Black Sea. Migrant workers secretary Hans Leo Cacdac said the department would establish whether directives on sending Filipino crew into the area were followed.

on Thursday. Early reports from the Maritime Security Centre Indian Ocean described a hijacking; later United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations updates pointed to a different outcome.

Capacity stood 8,000 TEU short of the mark at the start of September, with 46 ships totalling 286,000 TEU due this month. BIMCO chief shipping analyst Niels Rasmussen put the last 10 million TEU at five and a half years against ten and a half for the previous 10 million, with under 300,000 TEU recycled in that time. Ships above 12,000 TEU supplied two-thirds of the growth, liner operators took 85% of it and now control 65% of capacity, and nearly 2,000 ships carrying more than 5m TEU are already 20 years old or more.

from Dynacom Tankers, identified in the sales register as the 306,000 dwt Pinios, delivered this year by Hengli Heavy Industries.

for an all-share combination in which Energy Holdings would acquire all of Ventura Offshore's shares.

A Madeira court set a minimum of €802,354 as part of the insolvency of Teamson Lda, which bought the 402-passenger ship in April 2021. Bids close on 30 September, the ship can be viewed on 18 September and bids are opened on board on 9 October. The vessel is now described as asbestos-free and licensed for hotel activities.

and net profit down 56.5% to $5.8m. Dry freight container sales fell 55.0% to $60.9m as the average 20-foot price slipped to $1,613 from $1,845, while specialised and customised containers rose 17.0% to $106.3m, more than three-quarters of it energy storage system boxes.

In a statement titled In defence of free shipping, the Consultative Shipping Group — whose members include Greece, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Norway, Denmark, Germany and the UK, and represent more than a fifth of global trade by tonnage — said wars, chokepoint disruption, shadow fleets and discriminatory trade measures amount to a structural change in shipping's operating environment. The group put the wider shadow tanker fleet at more than 1,500 vessels, close to a fifth of global tanker capacity, and called for more consistent application of existing law rather than new rules.

at the first China-Europe Maritime Summit at SMM 2026, organised by CANSI, the German Shipowners' Association and DNV. China accounts for around 70% of the global orderbook and European owners operate more than a third of world fleet capacity.

in the Arequipa region on 3 September. The multipurpose terminal in Punta de Bombón, Islay province, is planned in three stages for more than $800m and is intended to handle general and breakbulk cargo, containers and solid bulk.

designed to withstand gusts of nearly 210 km/h, using elliptical columns, a streamlined frame, a semi-circular main beam and an octagonal machinery house to cut wind load by 80% against conventional designs.

for Egypt's Damietta Port Authority, built by Egyptian Ship Repair and Building Company.

, taking the class to 20 under construction, as the first of eight TRA2900s approaches sea trials in Zhuhai. The design offers 80 tonnes of bollard pull, can run on biofuel and is IMO Tier III and FiFi1-ready.

for serial supply of its 175D high-speed engine for Damen's fuel-flexible tug programme, prepared for diesel, 100% biofuel and future dual-fuel methanol operation.

, the second of eight battery-electric ship-assist tugs for Curtin Maritime, with two 2,000 hp Schottel L-drives, a 6 MWh lithium-iron-phosphate battery and 55 short tons of bollard pull.

, the second of four 7,900 TEU newbuildings that are LNG- and methanol-ready and fitted with scrubbers and shore power connections.

for the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 development in Mozambique, covering limited preliminary engineering, procurement and technical services to advance project definition.

to a subsidiary of PT Rukun Raharja on 4 September, retaining 95% of the entity developing Indonesia's first floating LNG vessel.