Iran has sharply condemned the United States’ latest threat of economic sanctions, accusing Washington of extending its authority beyond its own borders and undermining the sovereignty of other states.
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Two commercial vessels carrying a total of 22 Indian nationals have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia, according to an Indian shipping ministry official.
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Shipping moves an estimated 80 to 90% of world trade by volume, and it remains one of the hardest industries to decarbonize precisely because no single government regulates it. For most of its history, the sector’s environmental obligations were handled through discrete technical instruments: ballast-water rules, sulphur caps, and safety codes, administered largely apart from one another and rarely framed as a matter of corporate disclosure.
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China has approved the construction of a marine environmental observation station in the Zhongsha Islands, covering an area that includes the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained unchanged on Wednesday as discussions to end the war between the United States and Iran remained deadlocked, according to the latest shipping data.
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Baltic Shipping Company A/S has strengthened its fleet with two next-generation coaster vessels, M/V Baltic Iron and M/V Baltic Timber, featuring wind-assisted propulsion and battery technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.
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Nine shipbreaking workers were killed and six others injured after exposure to hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) gas at the Ferdous Steel shipbreaking yard in Chattogram, Bangladesh.
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A Greek-run oil tanker was attacked in the Black Sea after loading Russian-origin crude at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal near Novorossiysk, marking the latest disruption to petroleum flows linked to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Maersk is revising its Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) for container shipments from Far East Asia to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with the new rates taking effect on different dates depending on the country of origin.
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The Port of Colombo has reached a record level of container throughput, but its growing dependence on Indian-linked transshipment cargo is creating a strategic vulnerability as India advances plans for the Galathea Bay International Container Transshipment Port on Great Nicobar Island.
Read More Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed sharply over the weekend following attacks on tankers, according to ship-tracking data, as U.S.-Iran talks aimed at resolving the wider Middle East conflict stalled.
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Oman’s Environment Authority is continuing monitoring and response operations following an oil pollution incident, with the latest field assessments showing that approximately 12 kilometres of coastline in the Ras Madrakah area have been affected.
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The death toll from the devastating boat accident on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has risen to 69 after 23 more bodies were recovered, according to police.
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Yemen’s Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime operations following repeated Houthi missile and drone attacks that caused an estimated $16 million in damage and killed seven people, according to port director Abdulmalik al-Sharabi.
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Egypt has added two new 82,000-deadweight-ton bulk carriers to its national commercial fleet after the National Shipping Company, affiliated with the Ministry of Transport, received the vessels from Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu New Hantong Ship Heavy Industry (NHT) on Friday.
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