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France Commits 260 Million Euros To Five Ports For Floating Wind
France has committed 260 million euros to five ports to prepare them for floating offshore wind construction, in an allocation expected to unlock around a billion euros of investment.
Chinese And Russian Warships Complete Circumnavigation Of Japan
A joint Chinese and Russian naval group has completed a circumnavigation of Japan and its outer islands, tracked throughout by Japanese destroyers and maritime patrol aircraft.
Remontowa Cuts Steel For Fifth Battery-Electric Ferry In Scottish Series
Poland's Remontowa has cut steel for the fifth of seven battery-electric ferries for Scotland's state ferry asset company, the largest passenger ferry series in the yard's history.
Iran's Main Oil Terminal Falls Silent While Gulf Crude Still Moves Through Hormuz
Satellite imagery shows every berth empty at Iran's main crude export terminal with no loading since 31 July, while four to five million barrels a day still pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi Terminal Operator Weighs Bid For Cape Town Multipurpose Terminal
A Saudi terminal operator part-owned by the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund is weighing a bid for a multipurpose terminal at the Port of Cape Town, where bids close on 20 November.
Methamphetamine Found In Vehicle Transmission Shipped From Germany To Australia
Australian officers found thirteen kilograms of methamphetamine inside a vehicle transmission shipped from Germany, and made two arrests after a controlled delivery in western Sydney.
MSC Boxship Partially Sinks At Zhoushan Repair Berth
The MSC Silvana VIII has partially sunk alongside a repair yard at Zhoushan after a typhoon grounding and a failed refloating, with her engine room flooded and 3,000 tonnes of fuel removed.
China Names Two Dead A Year After South China Sea Collision With Its Own Navy
China has named two personnel killed in a 2025 collision between a coast guard cutter and one of its own destroyers near Scarborough Shoal, a year after saying nothing about casualties.
HD Hyundai Launches First Newbuild At Philippine Yard Since 2019
HD Hyundai has launched a 115,000 deadweight tonne product tanker at its Philippine subsidiary, the first newbuilding to leave the Subic yard since 2019.
IMO Completes First Global Audit Cycle Of Its Member States
The International Maritime Organization has completed its first full member state audit cycle, assessing 168 states on how effectively they implement its regulations.
Svitzer Orders Three Caribbean Escort Tugs After Delivering Region's Most Powerful Harbour Tug
Svitzer has ordered three escort tugs for the Caribbean after delivering the most powerful harbour tug operating in the Dominican Republic.
Shell Agrees To Sell European Onshore Renewables Portfolio To TotalEnergies
Shell has agreed to sell its European onshore renewables portfolio, around half a gigawatt across four countries, to TotalEnergies, with completion expected by the end of 2026.
Petrobras Confirms Deepwater Gas Discovery Off Colombia's Caribbean Coast
Petrobras has confirmed a deepwater gas discovery at the Sandia-1 well offshore Colombia, the third success within a few kilometres in the same Caribbean block.
US LNG Exports Stall In July Despite Higher Global Gas Prices
American LNG exports slipped to 10.48 million tonnes in July from 10.6 million, as summer maintenance kept volumes flat while Asian and European gas prices rallied.
Brookfield Inherits Nearly Twenty Percent Of Torm Through Oaktree Buyout
Brookfield has taken indirect control of a 19.86 percent stake in Danish product tanker owner Torm, not by buying shares but through its completed acquisition of Oaktree.
Cadeler Orders Two More Wind Installation Vessels In 930 Million Dollar Deal
Cadeler has ordered two more T-class offshore wind installation vessels from COSCO Shipping Offshore for around 805 million euros, with delivery in 2030 and 2031.
Container Lines Now Own The Majority Of Their Operated Capacity
The twelve largest container lines now own roughly 63 percent of their operated capacity, reversing the capital-light chartering model that defined the sector before the pandemic.
Shanghai Sets Single-Day Container Record Of 203,881 Boxes
The port of Shanghai handled 203,881 containers in a single day on 1 August, beating its previous record by close to nine percent as it cleared a typhoon backlog.
Norwegian Cancels Farewell Cruise Over Red Sea Security
Norwegian Cruise Line has cancelled the farewell voyage of the Norwegian Sky, a nineteen-night sailing due to transit the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, citing security concerns.
Record Danube Lows Expose Wartime Wrecks And Halve Barge Cargoes
Water levels on the Danube have hit record lows across ten countries, cutting barge loadings, threatening power generation and exposing scuttled wartime wrecks near Prahovo.
Steering Failure Grounds Container Ship At Chittagong Channel Entrance
A steering gear failure caused a Malta-flagged container ship to strike a channel buoy and ground at the entrance to Chittagong, before she was refloated the same day.
Six Men Removed From Cruise Ship After Faking Emergency Over Intercom
Six young men were removed from the cruise ship MSC Divina and handed to Italian authorities after broadcasting a false announcement over the ship's intercom that the captain had lost control.
US Navy Reclassifies Nineteen Virginia-Class Boats As Guided-Missile Submarines
The United States Navy is reclassifying nineteen Virginia-class submarines as guided-missile boats, days after awarding a 42.1 billion dollar contract for nine more.
Trump's 6.8 Billion Dollar Icebreaker Programme Draws Scrutiny Over No-Bid Awards
President Trump's plan for eleven Arctic icebreakers has produced nearly 6.8 billion dollars in contracts awarded without competitive bidding, at a time the Coast Guard had said it needed four or five.
Indian Dhow Sunk In Red Sea With Fourteen Crew Rescued
An Indian-registered dhow was sunk in the Red Sea off Yemen after an attack, with all fourteen people aboard rescued by the Yemeni coast guard and landed at Mokha.
Sanctioned Russian Ship Delivered Armoured Vehicles To Mali Through Togo
A sanctioned Russian cargo ship delivered a consignment of armoured vehicles to Mali through the port of Lome in Togo, having switched off its transponder after clearing the English Channel.
Investigation Links Dozens Of Sanctioned Tanker Operators To One Email Domain
An analytics firm has traced nearly two dozen nominally independent operators of sanctioned tankers back to a single private email domain also used by Russia's state shipping group.
Sovcomflot Assembles Sanctioned Tanker Convoy For Arctic Run To Asia
Russia's state shipping company is assembling a flotilla of sanctioned tankers in the Kara Sea for a convoy passage to Asia along the Northern Sea Route, reportedly carrying more than 950,000 tonnes of crude.
ADNOC Vessel Struck In Hormuz As Houthi Drone Hits Saudi Refinery
An ADNOC-owned vessel was hit by a missile in the Strait of Hormuz early on Saturday and a Houthi drone struck Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery a day later, widening the pressure on Gulf energy infrastructure.
Ukraine Agrees To Spare Tankers Lifting Kazakh Crude At Novorossiysk
Ukraine has agreed to stop attacking non-Russian tankers and Black Sea infrastructure tied to Kazakhstan's oil exports, after United States officials brokered a deal covering the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal near Novorossiysk.
Drone strike on Damietta gas carriers widens Middle East maritime conflict
A drone strike on a floating regasification unit and an LNG carrier at Egypt's Damietta terminal has pushed the Middle East maritime conflict into the Mediterranean.
Indonesian Ferry Fire Leaves Five Dead And Missing Total Still Unknown
Five people are confirmed dead and 231 have been rescued after the ferry Mutiara Sentosa 2 caught fire at sea off Indonesia, but authorities have been unable to establish how many people remain missing.
World's First Methanol Escort Tug Heads For British Columbia
The escort tug SD Aisemaht, described as the world's first purpose-built dual-fuel methanol tug of her type, has been spotted west of Gibraltar bound for Las Palmas on the first stage of a delivery voyage to Canada.
South Korea Signs Destroyer Contract Ending Three-Year Shipbuilder Dispute
South Korea has signed a contract worth about 882 billion won with Hanwha Ocean for the first KDDX destroyer, ending nearly three years of dispute over which shipbuilder would get the work.
Russia Floats Out Yasen-M Submarine Ulyanovsk At Severodvinsk
Russia's Sevmash shipyard floated out the nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Ulyanovsk on 28 July 2026, completing hull construction and moving the boat into the final stages of fitting out and testing.
Saipem And Subsea 7 Merger Clears United States Antitrust Review
Saipem has confirmed that all applicable waiting periods under United States antitrust legislation have expired in connection with its proposed merger with Subsea 7, allowing the parties to close the transaction in the United States.
Singapore Issues Eight New LNG Bunkering Licences From September
Singapore will issue eight new LNG bunkering licences from 1 September 2026, running five years and requiring end-to-end supply, with methane slip monitoring built into the selection criteria.
Satellite Images Reveal Novatek Terminal And Tank Farm Rising In Kola Bay
Satellite imagery shows at least fifteen gas reservoir tanks and a sea terminal rising at Belokamenka in the Kola Bay, which Novatek has confirmed form part of its heavily sanctioned Murmansk LNG project.
Tanker With Russian Naphtha Turns Back From Bab El-Mandeb And Sails Round Africa
A Panama-flagged tanker carrying Russian naphtha attempted to pass through the Bab el-Mandeb strait in the final week of July before changing course to sail around Africa instead, according to trade sources and ship-tracking data.
Brent Climbs 24 Percent In July As Chokepoint Disruption Reprices Oil
Brent crude rose 24 percent in July and WTI gained 21 percent as tanker disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and threats in Bab el-Mandeb pushed shipping data to the centre of oil price formation.
Shipbuilding Veteran Named As Scorpio Tankers' VLCC Partner
Scorpio Tankers is understood to be partnering with Chinese shipbuilding veteran Ren Yuanlin on eight scrubber-fitted VLCCs under construction in China, taking a minority stake of less than 15 percent.
NYK Takes Majority Voting Stake In LNG Investment Vehicle For 221 Million Dollars
NYK will invest 221 million dollars in Diamond Gas MidOcean for 87.4 percent of its voting rights, taking an indirect position in MidOcean Energy alongside a partnership on LNG marine transport.
US Navy Relieves Commander Of Ballistic Missile Submarine West Virginia
The commander of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS West Virginia has been removed from his post after less than a year in the role, the United States Navy said.
ADNOC Overhauls Abu Dhabi Crude Pricing From November
From 1 November 2026 ADNOC will price its Abu Dhabi crude grades on a prompt-month Dubai-linked basis plus a differential, replacing a futures mechanism that set prices two months ahead of loading.
Regulator Flags Second Potentially Fatal Dropped Object On Hibernia Platform
Canada's offshore regulator is monitoring a second potentially fatal incident on the Hibernia platform in ten weeks, after two casing joints fell from a gantry crane and struck a worker's leg on 18 July.
Eni And TotalEnergies Approve Cyprus Gas Development With Egyptian Export Route
Eni and TotalEnergies have taken a final investment decision on the Cronos gas field offshore Cyprus, with production from 2028 routed through Egyptian infrastructure and liquefied at Damietta for export to Europe.
COSCO Approves Fifteen Newcastlemax Bulkers Worth 7.9 Billion Yuan
COSCO Shipping Development has approved an order for fifteen Newcastlemax bulk carriers of 210,000 tonnes capacity each, to be built at two Chinese shipyards for a total contract value of 7.92 billion yuan, around 1.1 billion dollars.
Stealth Maritime Lifts Korean Newbuilding Programme To Around 1.3 Billion Dollars
Greek owner Stealth Maritime, part of the Harry Vafias group, has returned to South Korea with a fresh order that takes its total investment in newbuilding projects to approximately 1.3 billion dollars.
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