Paul Ratcliffe provides readers with highlights from Ignition Global’s 2024 Commercial Shipping Leaders Survey. Hiring in commercial shipping should be getting easier. The talent war of 2021 ...

The average spot rate assessment for a 174,000 cu m ship fell by 31% to $14,000 a day as of last Friday, while the equivalent rate for a 145,000 cu m steam turbine unit now stands at just $2,500 a ...

A Hong Kong-flagged boxship exploded and caught fire in the Red Sea, some 226 km northwest of Hodeidah, Yemen. In the early ...

DP World and NSW Ports are co-investing A$400m ($250m) to extend the rail terminal at Port Botany in Sydney to double ...

China’s Seacon Shipping has expanded its fleet through a €63.7m ($66.5m) deal for seven modern mini bulkers. The Hong ...

James Peacock, who leads product development at XMAR, tackles an issue likely to be one of the talking points at this year’s ...

Chinese boxship player SITC International Holdings has exercised options at Huanghai Shipbuilding for two additional 1,800 teu vessels. The Hong Kong-listed shipowner is paying nearly $58m to lift ...

German MPP specialist Candler Schiffahrt has bolstered its orderbook at China’s Jiangxi New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Heavy Industry in a deal for two additional vessels. The Bremen-based company ...

Greece-based offshore contractor Asso.subsea has ordered a large shallow-water cable layer from China Merchants Heavy Industry. The vessel will be designed by China Merchants Industry and ...

There has been a remarkable doubling of the amount of project cargoes leaving China on dry bulk carriers over the past year. Citing AIS satellite dry bulk carrier movement data from AXSMarine ...

Singapore-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has commissioned a series of three new crew transfer vessels with a maximum speed of over 53 knots, the fastest of their kind in the world. Each vessel ...

Starting out with the Informa Group in 2000 in Hong Kong, Sam Chambers became editor of Maritime Asia magazine as well as East Asia Editor for the world’s oldest newspaper, Lloyd’s List. In ...