maritime shipping digest
Manila has too many boxes. Thousands of empty containers are waiting for someone to take them back. They sit in terminals, in truck yards and on flatbeds parked along the roads to the port. As of late October 2026 the Philippine government is close to signing a joint…
The breakers on the beaches at Alang, Chattogram and Gadani have the cash and, since last year, the paperwork. What they don't have is ships…
Matson has christened Makua, the first of three new containerships in a fleet investment program valued at approximately $1 billion. The ceremony…
If you charter ships, book container space or own tonnage built in China, the date to circle this autumn isn't in Shanghai or Rotterdam. It's in a…
The photo was taken in October 2019 from the Marin side of the Golden Gate. A mid-size Maersk boxship is moving through the strait, Baker Beach and…
SLB said on Tuesday that its OneSubsea joint venture has won the subsea production contract for the first phase of Rovuma LNG, the 18.6 million tonne…
Container spot rates on the two big east-west trades are moving in opposite directions, and the Suez Canal explains most of it. Drewry's World…
Panama has fallen to third place among the world's ship registries. Figures dated September 1 put the Marshall Islands at 212.7 million gross tonnes…
At least four laden LNG carriers left the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz in the week to September 24, and at least two more sailed in…
Volare Shipping, the company Trafigura set up to own its growing VLCC fleet, has raised about $500 million in an oversubscribed private placement…
