A number of shipping lines have announced new services or the expansion of existing ones, linking Asia and the west and east coasts of South America, with post-panamax vessels.

The Multimodal exhibition held in Birmingham recently provided the usual heady mix of gossip and giveaways at the UK’s NEC, with ports, shipping lines, logistics operators and others jostling for position and potential customers. But with London...

No let-up in tanker market misery for owners of crude carriers with average VLCC earnings at less than $7,000 a day this year according to Clarkson Research. AG/West continues in negative territory. Suezmaxes are doing a little better with average...

Early last week, I ran into Nick Tsakos and Michael Jolliffe on Madison Avenue and we chatted for a minute; they were scurrying quickly to a meeting. Later in the week, the purpose of their New York visit was revealed: Tsakos Energy Navigation ...

John Angelicoussis is Greece’s largest shipowner, running a fleet of 97 ships comprising the full range of tankers, LNG carriers and bulk carriers, ranging from capesize through aframax to a lone panamax. Under the banners, Maran Tankers, Maran...

Marcus Hand looks at how when shipping companies run into trouble their seafarers can be left stranded thousands of miles from home on their vessels with no pay.

Across all sectors, shipping is capital-intensive, where multiple dollars of assets are required to generate each dollar of top line income. In the wake of banking pullbacks, vessel financiers have scrambled to fill in those lost dollars on the...

David Glass explores how the shipping industry will be essential to the economic recovery of Cyprus as the government creates a new ministerial post to oversee the sector.

A magnificent all-round performance by captain Priyath Wickrama propelled the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) XI to a convincing ten-wicket victory over Seatrade XI in the inaugural Chris Hayman Cup limited-overs cricket match at the Premadasa...

The Indian Shipping Ministry has blamed weak market conditions for the poor retail response in 2012-13 to the fund-raising plans of two top state-run ports and a government-owned dredging company.