New Zealand is facing the loss of its last domestic-flagged container shipping service, with Swire Shipping consulting on a proposal to cease Pacifica Shipping’s coastal container operation. The move ...

New Zealand’s offshore wind sector has cleared an important hurdle after parliament passed the Offshore Renewable Energy Bill, giving developers a clearer route into a market that has been waiting for ...

Singapore-based offshore vessel player and shipyard Marco Polo Marine has signed a multi-year framework agreement with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the deployment of two commissioning service ...

Global bank lending to shipping grew in 2025, marking a clear recovery after years of consolidation, according to the latest annual Petrofin Global Bank Research report. Petrofin’s top 40 banks ...

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to a near standstill on Thursday after a second consecutive day of US strikes on Iran, with president Donald Trump declaring the ceasefire between the two ...

Dutch surveyor Fugro has been awarded a contract by Saipem to deliver integrated marine survey and inspection services for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), the UK’s first CO2 transportation ...

Wolfgang Lehmacher on where the box sector is getting things wrong. Global container shipping is now missing around 1.8m teu of capacity because of delays, according to analysis by Sea-Intelligence.

Singapore-based MAC Shipping has returned to China for another batch of chemical tanker newbuildings. Brokers report the owner has contracted four 29,000 dwt chemical tankers at Taizhou Maple Leaf ...

The European Parliament has passed a non-binding motion calling on the European Commission to sanction the sale of alumina to Russia. Earlier this week, a majority of members of the European ...

Commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz has been pushed back into crisis mode after three vessel attacks in 24 hours triggered major US strikes on Iran and a sharp escalation across the Gulf.

Shipping’s rush to adopt artificial intelligence is creating a new operational hazard: systems that sound confident, look useful and are wrong. AI hallucinations, where a model generates false or ...