Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

A massive explosion killed at least 18 people and left around 800 others injured near Iran’s biggest port, Bandar Abbas. The blast, which took place at Shahid Rajaee terminal on Saturday morning, damaged multiple buildings in the area and caused additional…

Brussels-based maritime data analytics firm Kpler has closed the acquisition of Spire Global’s ship tracking business, Spire Maritime. The deal, worth about $241m, gives Kpler control over Spire’s satellites and maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS)…

Thailand’s Regional Carrier Lines (RCL) is bolstering its fleet with four additional containership newbuildings in China. The company revealed in a stock exchange filing that it will be adding a pair of 11,000 teu and 4,400 teu each in 2027 and 2028. The…

Piraeus and New York-based owner SteelShips has signed up for a fresh pair of medium-range product tanker newbuilds in South Korea. Shipbuilding sources report the Nicholas Notias-led outfit has returned to its go-to yard, K Shipbuilding, for two more 50…

US president Donald Trump has called for free passage of American ships through two of the vital shipping waterways, the Panama and Suez canals. Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that American ships, both military and commercial, should be allowed…

A ship order with a very early delivery date from Sea Consortium, the parent of X-Press Feeders, has been revealed. Clarksons Research is reporting Sea Consortium has ordered a pair of 2,800 teu boxships at Hyundai Mipo in South Korea with delivery due in…

CEVA Logistics, a subsidiary of French liner CMA CGM, is buying Borusan Tedarik Zinciri Çözümleri ve Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi, a Turkish outfit, for $440,.   The deal, which includes Borusan Tedarik subsidiaries in Germany, Bulgaria, Hong Kong and China,…

Cash-rich Asyad Shipping, formerly known as Oman Shipping Co, has completed a deal for a pair of VLCCs, the first modern supertankers to change hands for 11 months. Brokers link Asyad Shipping to the acquisition of the 2020-built sisterships, Landbridge Wisdom…

The second edition of Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, opens today with a record attendance and delegates keen to hear what’s in store for the global trade outlook in the coming 12 months following a turbulent start to 2025.…

A bulker and a boxship collided late on Friday night on the Long Tau river near Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, resulting in the bulker partially sinking. The 2018-built containership KMTC Surabaya, owned by Japan’s Nissen Kaiun and operated by Korea Marine Transport…

German utility RWE has frozen all of its US offshore wind operations due to the political environment created by the administration of current president Donald Trump. In November last year, while the campaign for the new US president was still hot, the company…

China’s Wison New Energies has signed the detailed feasibility study for a new-build floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility offshore Suriname. The unit is set to be deployed at the Petronas-operated Block 52. The Malaysian giant has also been the…

Norwegian seismic service provider Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been hired by India’s Cairn Oil & Gas to conduct a 3D controlled source electromagnetic survey for its exploration campaign in the deepwater Krishna-Godavari block on India’s east coast.…

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.