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2026
- Matson’s Makua Marks Progress on a $1 Billion U.S.-Built Containership Program
- Washington's Shipping Calendar: Chinese Ship Port Fees Due Back November 10, the SHIPS Act Rides the NDAA and the Coast Guard Buys Finnish Icebreakers
- Maersk Line, Hamburg Süd, Safmarine: A 2019 Golden Gate Photo of Brands Maersk Has Since Retired
- Rovuma LNG Orders Subsea Systems From SLB OneSubsea: Mozambique Gas Outside the Hormuz Chokepoint
- Asia-Europe Container Rates Fall as Suez Traffic Returns, While Transpacific Rates Keep Climbing
- Panama Drops to Third in Global Ship Registry Rankings After Losing 15% of Its Tonnage This Year
- Qatar LNG Sailings Through Hormuz Hit a Two-Month High, Still About a Fifth of Prewar Traffic
- Trafigura's Volare Raises $500 Million for an Oslo VLCC Listing as the Supertanker Orderbook Hits 38% of the Fleet
- Trump Attacks the IMO Net-Zero Framework at the UN as China Launches a Green Shipping Corridor Alliance
- VLCC Earnings Hit a Record $1.27 Million a Day as Saudi Crude Jams Ship-to-Ship Transfers off Oman
- Drewry World Container Index Dips to $4,468 as Asia-Europe Rates Fall and Transpacific Holds Near Highs
- Qatar Moves Four LNG Carriers Through Hormuz in a Week, the Most Since Early July
- Strait of Hormuz Closure Reaches Day 208 With Commercial Traffic Near Zero
- US-China Port Fee Truce Expires November 9, and Carriers Still Don't Know What Comes Next
- China and Korea Send Container Ships Over the Northern Sea Route as Suez and Hormuz Stay Risky
- Container Lines Return to the Suez Canal Despite Houthi Gains at Bab el-Mandeb
- VLCC Orders Hit a Record Pace in 2026 as Tanker Owners Bet the Hormuz Disruption Will Last
- Houthis Seize Mocha and Perim Island, Taking Control of Yemen's Side of Bab el-Mandeb
- US and Iran Trade Tanker Strikes in the Gulf of Oman as Brent Climbs Toward $100
- IMO Net-Zero Framework Talks End Without a Deal, Pushing Shipping's Carbon Price Fight to December
- German and Dutch Port Strikes Hit Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Rotterdam as North Europe Congestion Worsens
- Panama Canal Cuts Daily Slots and Draft Limits as El Niño Returns, and an LPG Carrier Pays a Record $5.3 Million Toll
- Hormuz Closure Cuts Seaborne Sulfur Exports by a Third and Reroutes the Global Fertilizer Trade
- Iran and Oman Agree a Temporary Hormuz Shipping Route, Seven Miles Wide and Under Iranian Watch
- Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd Q2 2026 Results Show How Carriers Are Paying for the Hormuz Crisis
- 8,000 Seafarers Still Stranded Behind the Strait of Hormuz as Crew Changes Break Down
- Europe Has Seized Nine Russian Shadow Fleet Tankers, and Russia Is Now Arming Its Ships
- Korea's $150 Billion MASGA Shipbuilding Pledge Meets the Jones Act at Hanwha Philly Shipyard
- Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority Demands Hormuz Tolls, and US Sanctions Make Paying Them a Risk
- Container Ship Orderbook Hits a Record 13 Million TEU, 38% of the Fleet, as Overcapacity Warnings Grow