State-owned Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDSC) is planning to re-energise the flagging Danube River market with a series of new barges that will allow the company to open services further north into the Upper Danube region.
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.