Norway-led FIT-HORIZONS Project Receives Nearly €4 Million in EU Funding to Develop AI-Powered Retrofitting Platform
The FIT-HORIZONS project brings together 19 maritime companies, researchers, universities, software ...
Ocean Alliance to Include Gdansk, Poland in Asia-Europe Route from August
Ocean Alliance carriers CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping Lines, OOCL, and Evergreen Marine will add the Polis...
Port of Barcelona Delivers Two Heavy Trucks and Tank Container to Fire Brigade in June
The Port of Barcelona, in accordance with a cooperation agreement with the Barcelona Civil Protectio...
Japan's Shimizu Port Foreign Trade Container Throughput Drops 6% in May 2026
Japan's Shimizu Port recorded a foreign trade container throughput of 33,808 TEU in May 2026, down 6...
Norway's DNV Joins DCSA+ to Drive Trusted Data Exchange in Container Shipping
DNV has integrated its cloud data platform Veracity into the DCSA+ Partner Program under the Digital...
Panama Canal and Port of Miami Renew Five-Year Cooperation Agreement
Panama Canal and the Port of Miami have renewed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding to further e...
Port of HaminaKotka cargo throughput down 11.5% in first five months of 2026
From January to May 2026, the Port of HaminaKotka handled 5.29 million tons of cargo, down 11.5% yea...
Mexico Announces 190 Billion Peso Investment Plan to Develop Veracruz State
The Mexican federal government has announced an investment plan of 190 billion pesos (approximately ...
Genoa, Italy, and Misurata, Libya, Strengthen Port Logistics Cooperation
The Ports of Genoa hosted a delegation from the Misurata Free Zone to exchange views on strengthenin...
Transpacific and Asia-Europe Freight Rates Rise for Sixth Consecutive Week; CMA CGM Imposes $4,000 Surcharge
Container spot freight rates on the transpacific and Asia-Europe routes have risen for the sixth con...
CMA CGM orders eight 6,000 TEU container ships
The container ship newbuilding market is primarily driven by orders for vessels of 6,000 TEU and abo...
Seaspan's First 10,800 CEU PCTC Begins Maiden Voyage
Seaspan Corporation announced that its first 10,800 CEU dual-fuel liquefied natural gas pure car and...
Northern German Chamber of Commerce Calls on Government to Provide at Least €500 Million Annually for Port Infrastructure
The 2026 Spring Economic Survey released by the Northern German Chamber of Commerce (IHK Nord) shows...
Brazilian Merchant Marine Fund Invests BRL 406 Million in Delivery of 70 Vessels
The Merchant Marine Fund (FMM) investment plan in the Northern region has delivered 70 vessels over ...
Paracas Port in Peru Welcomes ZIM's Box Endurance Vessel
Paracas Port welcomed the Box Endurance vessel, operating on ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' "Coli...
Chile's Portuaria Corral Announces Operation of Over 20,000 sqm Dome
Portuaria Corral has announced that its new dome facility is now fully operational, designed to prot...
Bahia Cotton Exports Surge 1,350% Over Three Harvest Seasons
The outflow of cotton exports from western Bahia, Brazil, has increased 14.5 times over three harves...
CCEC and CMA CGM Jointly Order $82.8 Million LNG Bunker Vessel in China, Delivery in 2028
CCEC, a US-listed LNG carrier owner backed by Evangelos Marinakis, announced a 50-50 joint venture w...
Baltic Dry Index Holds Steady, Down 8.5% for the Week
The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk freight index was largely flat on Friday, with mixed performances acr...
Canada's HaiSea Marine Orders Escort Tug and Two Harbour Tugs
HaiSea Marine is expanding its fleet on the north coast of British Columbia, placing an order with T...
Inmarsat NexusWave Receives ClassNK IACS Cybersecurity Certification
Inmarsat Maritime's fully managed bundled connectivity service, NexusWave, has received a cybersecur...
U.S. Great Lakes Iron Ore Shipments Up 8.4% in May, Limestone Down 8.1%
Iron ore shipments on the U.S. Great Lakes increased year-over-year in May, while limestone shipment...
Norway's Eitzen Group Orders Two Electric Container Ships on June 12
Norwegian maritime investment group Eitzen is advancing plans to build two electric container ships,...
Swedish Tax Reform Approved: Gotlandsbolaget to Relocate Route Contract
The Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) has approved an amendment to the tonnage tax, aimed at enhancing th...
Port of Long Beach handles 842,030 TEU in May, up 31.7% year-on-year
The Port of Long Beach handled 842,030 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in May, an increase of 31....
Peru's Concession Port Investments Reach $2.376 Billion as of April 2026
According to data from the Supervisory Agency for Public Transport Infrastructure Investment (Ositrá...
Brazil's first container terminal in 13 years opens, with investment exceeding 2 billion reais
Brazil has inaugurated its first new container terminal in 13 years, located in the Suape Port-Indus...
NYK Launches B100 Biofuel Trial on Car Carrier
NYK has initiated a one-year trial on an operating car carrier using 100% biofuel (B100), marking a ...
Freight rates continue to surge! Approaching $13,000 at the highest! MSC, Maersk, and CMA CGM collectively raise freight rates, effective July
The global container shipping market is entering a new upward cycle. With the traditional peak seaso...
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and BAR Technologies Sign WindWings MOU
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and BAR Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MO...