The Red Sea crisis with the Houthis in Yemen attacking commercial shipping transiting the region has been one of the biggest stories in shipping over the last six months.
The first seafarer deaths in the Red Sea crisis, a containership destroys bridge in the Port of Baltimore and the debut trial of ammonia as a marine fuel, and much more in the latest Maritime in Minutes.
The northern Chinese port of Tangshan in Hebei province is planning to build a 300,000 tonnes-class bulk cargo berth and a 300,000 tonnes-class ore berth.
The terrible vessel allision at Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge - part of the I-695 motorway over the Patapsco River - will leave the Port of Baltimore closed for an indeterminate, but certainly considerable, length of time.
As shipowners and charterers avoid the Red Sea due to Houthi attacks and divert via the Cape of Good Hope they are faced with a hefty additional fuel bill.
As the spring 2025 deadline for turning IMO’s revised GHG strategy into regulation approaches, progress was made last week at meeting 16 of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG GHG 16).