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February 5, 2025
Hapag-Lloyd, a container shipping liner, will be able cope with U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Products. This was the chief executive's message to reporters on Tuesday. Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Rolf Habben Jansen, said that it was too early to panic…
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January 31, 2025
Norwegian police announced on Friday that they arrested a Norwegian vessel with a Russian crew, on suspicion of causing damage to an optical cable in the Baltic Sea. Tromsoe police, in Tromsoe city, north of Norway said that the arrest was made at the request by Latvian authorities.
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January 28, 2025
The lining of a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker was damaged while it freed a vessel trapped in Arctic waters. This was reported by the state news agency RIA on Tuesday. The vessel Fifty Years of Victory was said to be operating normally,…
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January 22, 2025
Tanger Med Port in Morocco said Wednesday that it retained its position as the Mediterranean’s leading port, handling 10,24 million containers. This is an increase of 18.8% compared to a year ago. In June, the port reported that it expected…
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January 22, 2025
Sea coast, Houthiowned Al Masirah TV reported on Wednesday. Palestinian militant group Hamas. Council as saying. car provider's owner Galaxy Maritime. Houthi forces at sea on Nov. of war in Gaza. agreement. criminal activities and siege of the Gaza Strip, he said.
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January 10, 2025
Emergency services reported on Friday that a tugboat had stopped a Panama flagged tanker, carrying 99,000 metric tonnes of oil, from drifting uncontrollably off the coast of Germany's Baltic Sea near Ruegen. It said that the 274-metre tanker…
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January 8, 2025
The agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that the introduction of Ukraine's new export regime, which will apply to most agricultural products starting Dec. 1, has caused a drop in farm exports for December. The government has introduced minimum export prices and new controls over shipments…
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January 7, 2025
Published a special report based on leaked emails last year that showed how Iranian oil company Sahara Thunder moved around the globe. The story shows the journeys of tankers carrying Iranian crude oil and the methods they use to avoid detection.
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January 1, 2025
Rio Tinto, a miner in Australia, said that a deckfitter aboard its bulk carrier traveling from China to Western Australia had been reported missing the previous week. The Philippine Coast Guard is leading a search-and-rescue operation. Rio Tinto…
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December 30, 2024
The Finnish Coast Guard said Monday that it would deploy one of its patrol boats and a towboat to help an oil tanker in the Gulf of Finland after its engine failed. It was trying to avoid environmental damage. The coast guard reported that the 183-metre-long (600-foot-long) M/T Jazz…
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December 25, 2024
The owner of the Russian cargo vessel Ursa Major, which sank into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, said that the ship was a victim of an "act of terrorism". This statement came from the state news agency RIA. Two of the 16 crew members were reported missing after an explosion in the engine room.
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December 6, 2024
The Agriculture Ministry announced on Friday that Ukraine's grain imports for 2024/25 had reached nearly 18.9 million metric tonnes as of December 6, compared to about 13.7 millions tons in Dec. 2006, according to data. This volume consisted of 9.1 million tonnes of wheat…
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December 5, 2024
Three maritime security sources confirmed on Thursday that a rescue operation was underway for the crew aboard a cargo ship flying the Panamanian flag, which had been abandoned near the port of Hodeidah at the Red Sea. The number of crew members on board and the cause of the accident were not known.
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December 1, 2024
Interpress, a Georgian news agency, reported that protesters against the government in Georgia blocked the access road to the main commercial port of the country at the Black Sea town of Poti on Sunday. Protesters blocked at least one entrance of the port complex on Thursday…
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November 22, 2024
European traders reported on Friday that the Turkish state grain board TMO had issued an international tender for the sale and export of approximately 150,000 metric tonnes of animal feed barley. The deadline to submit price proposals in the tender is November 28. Between Dec. 18, 2020, and Jan.
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November 18, 2024
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said that a vessel located 60 nautical miles south of Yemen's Aden reported a missile splashing in the water within its proximity on Monday. UKMTO said that both the vessel and crew were in safety.
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November 17, 2024
The Transportation Ministry reported that the Nazann tanker with a length of 114 metres had a rudder problem. This caused the suspension of both directions in the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. The coast guard sent tugboats to the strait after the vessel had mechanical issues.
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November 15, 2024
Danish logistics and shipping firm DFDS announced on Friday that it has agreed to purchase the international transport network of Turkey's Ekol Logistics, overturning a two-week-old decision to cancel the deal. DFDS stated that the acquisition was finalized after renegotiating some terms.
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November 14, 2024
Hapag-Lloyd's CEO said that Donald Trump's election as U.S. president sends mixed signals to global shipping. Positive macroeconomic effects could be offset by damaging tariffs. When asked about the prospects of a Trump Administration, CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said…
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November 12, 2024
Two people familiar with the plan on Tuesday said that oil exports from Russia’s Black Sea Port of Novorossiisk will decline from 2.42 millions metric tons to 1,89 million metric tonnes, or about 460,000 barrels per daily, in November, from 2,42 million tons in Oct.
