Insurance rates for ships trading in the Black Sea have jumped sharply following a fresh wave of attacks on vessels linked to Russia. Citing data from Marsh, the world’s largest insurance broker, ...

Carl Martin Faannessen, CEO of Noatun Maritime, is in two minds when it comes to AI and crewing. A ship has a personality, or so many would like us to believe. This is fine – humans have bestowed ...

Shipping is standing on the edge of its biggest productivity shift in a generation – and this time, it’s not driven by a new hull design or fuel type, but by artificial intelligence. After years of ...

Pierre Aury gives readers a renewable fuels guide. As the International Maritime Organization has decided to postpone by one year the approval of its proposed Net Zero Framework (NZF) we have decided ...

Havila Shipping has secured more work with Equinor after the Norwegian energy major exercised fresh options on one of the owner’s platform supply vessels. The latest extension covers the PSV Havila ...

New York-listed boxship owner Global Ship Lease (GSL) has moved to expand its fleet, striking a deal to buy three 8,600 teu vessels for a combined $90m. The vessels — Korean-built in 2010 and 2011 and ...

Norwegian offshore contractor Aker Solutions has secured a new six-year maintenance and modification (M&M) frame agreement with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia to service the ageing Eldfisk field and ...

A new study from the University of Oxford estimates that disruptions at the world’s maritime chokepoints affect around $192bn worth of maritime trade each year. These disruptions result in estimated ...

Solstad Maritime has upgraded its upcoming campaign with Prysmian by assigning the larger construction support vessel Normand Energy in place of the originally planned Normand Ocean. The vessel switch ...

South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis has signed a long-term charter deal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier newbuild with a global trading company. Under the agreement, the Seoul-based shipping arm of ...

Norwegian offshore vessel owner Havila Shipping has secured a one-year contract extension for one of its platform suppliers (PSV) from compatriot energy major Equinor. Havila revealed that Equinor ...

Russia failed on Friday in its bid for reelection to Category (a) at the IMO Council. Member states held a secret ballot to elect nations to the International Maritime Organization’s council, the UN ...