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  • No Shipping, No Shopping
  • US Coast Guard Charters an Offshore Vessel to Support its Cutters
  • Centre Exempts GIFT City Companies From Requiring DGMA License To Lease Foreign Vessels

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logisticsbusiness.com /1 month ago

No Shipping, No Shopping

Peace on the world’s oceans is over for the time being. This was the unanimous consensus among speakers at the Albert Ballin Forum hosted by Hapag-Lloyd in Hamburg. Around 100 gues...

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maritime-executive.com /2 weeks ago

US Coast Guard Charters an Offshore Vessel to Support its Cutters

The U.S. Coast Guard is taking a page from the U.S. Navy's operating manual and beginning to hire in civilian-crewed tonnage for sealift support, free...

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ndtvprofit.com /6 days ago

Centre Exempts GIFT City Companies From Requiring DGMA License To Lease Foreign Vessels

The Coastal Shipping Act 2025, which deals with licensing of ships, has come under flak for hampering the ability of Indian entities engaged in commodity trading to charter foreign...

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /1 month ago

Seafarers are rarely aware of sanctioned, ‘dark ship’ status

Captain Savio Ramos, general secretary of Maritime Union of India (MUI) said a sailor has the option to seek de-boarding from a ship once it enters the restricted zone and as per n...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Presidential Message on National Maritime Day

For over two and a half centuries, the dedicated members of the United States Merchant Marine have powered our economy, secured our commerce, and defe...

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ekathimerini.com /1 month ago

Shipping companies to dock at Euronext Athens

Ocean-going shipping is making its debut on the Athens Stock Exchange.

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marinelink.com /1 day ago

Marcura Acquires Fairway Maritime

Marcura has acquired the business assets of Fairway Maritime LLC, a US-based provider in demurrage and marine claims management. The acquisition follows those of HubSE and Shipdem,...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Bosuns and Seamen Call Strike Against Iceland’s Eimskip

 Eimskip, a niche shipping company based in Iceland that maintains service connecting Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Europe, reports it has received...

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thehindu.com /1 month ago

Indian commercial ships should avoid Shinas Anchorage, shipworkers’ union tells Centre

The Outer Port Limit area in the Sultanate of Oman has emerged as one of the most sensitive and high risk zones for merchant vessels, particularly vessels with Indian or Indian-int...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Ships Report Trading Shots with Pirates, Including a 30-Minute Firefight

The incidents of commercial shipping being approached by pirates between Somalia and Yemen are continuing and appearing to get more brazen, with multi...

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container-news.com /3 weeks ago

America’s Maritime Action plan builds ships faster than it cuts dependence

The Maritime Action Plan arrives with a clean mandate: build enough merchant ships and mariners to sustain the fleet through war, while cutting reliance on foreign supply chains in...

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asiatimes.com /1 week ago

Navalization of economic warfare makes trade routes into military targets

With more than 80% of global trade by volume being transported by sea, maritime shipping lanes are indispensable to the world economy. That fact was starkly illustrated by the war...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

EU Commences Mediterranean Dark Fleet Stop and Search Operations

 The European Union has launched a coordinated campaign to crack down on vessels that are false-flagged, fraudulently certified, or are in breach of m...

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maritime-executive.com /2 days ago

Marcura Acquires US-Based Demurrage Claims Specialist Fairway Maritime

Marcura has acquired the business assets of Fairway Maritime LLC, a US-based specialist in demurrage and marine claims management. The acquisition str...

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marinelink.com /2 weeks ago

MPCC Buys Four Container Ships, Secures $375M Financing

MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has agreed to acquire four eco-conventional container vessels for a total of $340 million, each backed by a three-year fixed-rate time charter with a top...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Med-Mooring Dispute Interrupts Cargo Deliveries to U.S. Virgin Islands

Med-mooring is standard practice in some parts of the world (notably the Greek ferry sector), but the U.S. Coast Guard has banned two vessels from usi...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

[OPINION] Tyranny of the minority in Philippine shipping industry?

Shipping industry associations are pushing for an open pilotage policy that will promote healthy competition in all ports in the country, leading to lower freight costs for the ben...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Australia Secures First Vessel for National Strategic Fleet

Australia has secured the first vessel for its new strategic fleet designed to restore Australian-flag shipping and provide critical capacity in times...

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crypto.news /2 weeks ago

Ethra Ship brings billion-dollar shipping market onto the blockchain

Ethra Ship has launched a blockchain protocol backed by four years of maritime operations, opening access to an asset class where individual vessels can cost between $30 million an...

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maritime-executive.com /6 days ago

American Mariners Protest Chinese Ship Working in U.S. Domestic Trade

On Thursday, a crowd of American mariners traveled to Garyville, Louisiana to meet a Chinese asphalt tanker at a refinery pier. That the vessel was Ch...

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maritime-executive.com /2 weeks ago

Ferry Operator Cites EU ETS and Taxes in Plan to Sell Vessels, Stop Routes

After more than 50 years of service for cargo and passengers between France and the UK, Brittany Ferries reports it must adapt and reallocate resource...

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theloadstar.com /1 month ago

Inchape launches US forwarding service

Leading global port agency provider Inchape Shipping services is moving into the US freight forwarding sector after receiving its Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI) license fr...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Marinakis: "Better to Pay a Fee" for Hormuz Transits

Most shipowners are reticent to discuss the arrangements they might be willing to make with sanctioned regimes, but on Tuesday,  prominent Greek tanke...

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