Cuba’s ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
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Shanghai has pushed its daily container throughput above 200,000 teu for the first time, setting another handling record at the world’s busiest boxport. The port moved 203,881 teu on August 1, nearly…
Ukraine has widened its campaign against Russia-linked commercial shipping, sinking a FESCO containership, striking a Greek-owned tanker and hitting three refineries nearly 1,600 km inside Russia.…
An Italian-led European Union naval mission has boarded a sanctioned tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet in international waters west of Sicily, the second such operation in less than two weeks.…
Containerlines have sharply increased their reliance on owned ships during the 2020s, reducing their exposure to a charter market repeatedly constrained by limited vessel availability. According to…
Seafarers are losing faith in an industry that imposes ever more training, technology and compliance while leaving their physical safety largely to chance. Steven Jones, founder of the Seafarers…
Uncertainty in shipping has become the defining characteristic of today’s maritime industry, according to the latest Readers Speak poll. Readers overwhelmingly agreed that unpredictability is no…
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