On Friday, a small towboat capsized and sank in the Houston Ship Channel, killing one crewmember. At about 1400 hours on Friday afternoon, the 55-foot towboat Miss Peggy capsized at a position near the Lynchburg Ferry crossing on the Houston Ship Channel,…
An Indonesian landing craft carrying government cargo has disappeared without a trace off West Papua, somewhere between the districts of Mimika and Asmat on the island’s southern coast. The landing craft Cita XX departed Mimika on July 15, bound for Asmat with…
Paul Watson, founder of the activist group Sea Shepherd, has been arrested in Greenland in connection with an Interpol “Red” warrant filed by the government of Japan. Watson’s vessel John Paul DeJoria arrived at the port of Nuuk, Greenland on Sunday for…
Spyros M. Polemis, a pillar of Greek shipping and a past chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has passed away. Born in 1937 into a family with centuries of maritime tradition, Polemis studied shipping and marine engineering in Athens, London…
Following a sharp downturn in tanker contracting that saw the orderbook plunge to new lows before tanker owners started placing new contracts at speed earlier this year, a small volume of new ships will be commissioned in the near term.…
The Far East – Latin America Express (FLX) launched in cooperation with Ocean Network Express (ONE) will serve the ports of Busan in Korea, Shanghai in China, and Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico. The first voyage on the FLX service is…
The terminal at Khalifa Port offers over 20 international services connecting to 60 ports and the six additional routes this year have increased volumes 35%. The new services have helped to push the terminal past the milestone of handling 5…
The Russian-backed government of Abkhazia, Georgia appears to have just hosted its first Russian Navy vessel, according to satellite imagery released by naval analyst H.I. Sutton. The development means that Russia now has access to another port on the eastern…
Heavy seas and strong winds are continuing to batter shipping along the South African coast and the massive containerships on route to sail the Cape of Good Hope due to Red Sea diversions. CMA CGM is reporting that one of…
Tracking services and the AIS signal from the Marshall Island-flagged tanker Advantage Sweet show the vessel underway and bound for Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates nearly 15 months after the tanker was detained by Iranian forces. The latest AIS data…