2+ week, 4+ day ago   (633+ words) Ports increasingly face a problem that cannot be solved simply by looking at annual capacity: too many ships arriving at exactly the wrong time. A port can have enough cranes, berths and yard space to handle its annual cargo volumes…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (357+ words) More than 1,000 days after the Galaxy Leader seizure ushered in shipping’s Red Sea crisis, the container sector could be approaching something resembling normality on the Suez route before the end of the year. Lars Jensen, one of container shipping’s most…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (177+ words) Global container port congestion has climbed to a record high, with more than 4.3m teu of vessel capacity now waiting to berth, according to Linerlytica. The figure surpasses the previous absolute peak of 4m teu recorded during the covid pandemic in 2022 and…...

3+ week, 22+ min ago   (829+ words) Condemnation after attacks on merchant shipping is no longer enough. The industry needs enforceable protections for crews operating in conflict zones. Mark O’Neil writes for Splash today. The death of the chief engineer aboard the Liberian-flaggedMinoan Dignity in the Strait…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (556+ words) Shipping is betting on more ships thanks, in no small part, to the disruption created by fewer reliable routes. That contradiction ran through much of Splash’s coverage this week. Panama, Hormuz, the Houthis, Somali pirates and the Black Sea were…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (150+ words) US transportation secretary Sean Duffy joined Maritime Administrator Stephen Carmel and Texas congressman Michael Cloud to unveil a new agreement aimed at exploring the use of SMRs across port operations, shoreside power and future vessel propulsion. Duffy said SMRs could…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (424+ words) At 27% year-on-year, growth in the global shipbuilding orderbook is running at its fastest pace since the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, with contracting volumes now tracking levels last seen during shipping’s great pre-Lehman ordering frenzy. The global merchant fleet stood…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (190+ words) APM Terminals is stepping up the modernisation of its Elizabeth terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey with agreements for 96 electric terminal tractors from Orange EV and 34 electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Konecranes. The 130-unit equipment programme…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (542+ words) Maersk appears ready to tear up one of the defining tenets of its strategy this decade, abandoning its long-standing containership capacity ceiling as Vincent Clerc prepares the Danish carrier for renewed fleet growth. Throughout container shipping’s extraordinarily profitable 2020s, Maersk repeatedly…...