The Liberian Registry has become the very first ship registry to sign onto the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change. The Liberian Registry joins over 300 owners, operators, and...

Hamburg-based tanker shipping company Chemikalien Seetransport (CST) and Dortmund-based investment manager Dr. Peters Group (DPG) have established a joint venture for ship management. As informed, ...

Freight industry sources believe spot prices will plateau and then fall after Chinese New Year – but will remain elevated for some time compared with their levels in 2019 as carriers continue deploy...

After struggling with excess containers for much of 2020, Los Angeles is now facing a worsening equipment shortfall, according to new data from Container xChange. After struggling to cope with exce...

Contract rates usually follow the trend of spot rates, with a time lag built in. But recent contract rates for the transpacific are 15% above where key Chinese index SCFI suggests they should be, and ...

Strong demand and unusually tight capacity mean rate negotiations between shippers, forwarders and carriers ‘are much more short term again – the number of spot rates has increased drastically com...

Figures from Freightos and WorldACD indicate volumes have recovered quickly from an early January dip, although average prices have softened slightly from their very high levels at the end of last yea...

Eco Livorno, the third of twelve hybrid vessels of the Grimaldi Green 5^th Generation (GG5G) class, has been delivered to the Grimaldi Group by the Chinese Jinling shipyard located in Nan...

The transition to low sulphur in fuel oil in 2020 saw only 55 cases of 0.50% compliant fuel being unavailable, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said describing the switch extremely smooth...

SEA Europe, a shipyards and maritime equipment association, supports the inclusion of shipping into the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) as part of the EU Green Deal. However, the association said tha...