The marine insurance market is rapidly pulling back from the Red Sea, with several of the world’s leading P&I clubs issuing notices cancelling certain war-risk covers across a vast stretch of waters ...

The US has begun disposing of ageing tankers seized during its widening campaign against sanctions-busting oil trades, with vessels linked to the shadow networks serving Russia, Iran and Venezuela ...

A widening drone campaign against Libya’s most important western oil complex is threatening refinery operations and exports, with the country’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) warning it could declare ...

Chrome ore has emerged as the fastest-growing dry bulk commodity trade of 2026, as the collapse of South Africa’s ferrochrome smelting industry pushes greater volumes of unprocessed ore onto ships ...

Commercial shipping came under fire at both ends of the Middle East’s most disrupted maritime corridor on Tuesday, with US forces disabling a containership in the Gulf of Oman while a separate attack ...

Paradip Port Authority has opened a tender for project management services covering the development of a 1 MW electrolyser-based green hydrogen plant and the procurement of eight hydrogen fuel-cell ...

Commercial grain vessel operations have resumed at Japan’s Yatsushiro Port after emergency repairs following the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake. Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and ...

The largest onshore and offshore drilling company in Saudi Arabia by fleet size, Arabian Drilling, has received notice of resumption of operations for the remaining suspended offshore rigs. The ...

Japan’s ENEOS Holdings has agreed to acquire US petrochemical company TPC Group, including its Port Neches operations in Texas, strengthening its presence across the US Gulf Coast’s industrial and ...

For centuries, the commercial appeal of the sea has rested on a simple proposition: once outside territorial waters, ships could move with comparatively few physical barriers. The oceans were the ...

Malaysia’s MISC has ordered an 18,700 cu m LNG carrier in China after securing a 10-year charter with compatriot Malaysia LNG. The Bursa Malaysia-listed owner has contracted Hudong-Zhonghua ...

South Korea’s CK Line has returned to China’s Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding with an order for up to four containerships, extending a relationship that began with a pair of feeder vessels delivered ...