Hede (Hong Kong) International Shipping is set to be a new entrant to the Transpacific trade launching a service connecting Shanghai to Los Angeles from late March.

As companies look to secure and diversify supply chains through nearshoring there is not another one-stop-shop alternative to China.

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is easing transit restrictions adding three daily book slots later in March as water levels improve.

Support for the IMO’s decarbonisation checkpoints and ambitions at 2030, 2040, and 2050 was unanimous at CMA Shipping 2024, but attendees were divided on whether the shipping industry could hit its marks.

Bergen-based chemical tanker company, Odfjell Tankers, is continuing its take-up of MarineLine, a tank protection product from Ohio-based Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC), with three more vessels due to dock in China in the weeks ahead.

Chinese port equipment manufacturer Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has made a statement denying that its cranes are a cyber security threat to US ports.

Euronav and CMB Chief Executive, Alexander Saverys, has taken aim at Wall Street financial community unimpressed by their plans to transform the listed tanker company into an innovator of alternative fuels.

The US military says some 28 drones were downed in less than five hours on 9 March fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen at vessels in the Red Sea.

The Argentinian government has announced plans for a $550 million investment to build a new port in the agricultural region of Rosario.

SSA Marine says the first of six pieces of zero-emissions cargo handling equipment will be introduced at the Port of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal over the next 12 to 18 months.