Regions

China Merchants Port and CMA CGM have negotiated and reached formal agreements for the acquisition of a portfolio of stakes in ten port terminals to Terminal Link, the joint venture of the two companies.

Container line MSC is re-routing some vessels from French ports due to ongoing industrial action in the country which has paralysed multiple modes of transportation.

2019 has seen a number of significant vessels either for the technology used on the newbuilding, its sheer size, or a combination of the two.

The 19 seafarers kidnapped by pirates from the VLCC Nave Constellation off Nigeria have been released.

Shell International Trading and Shipping Company is to retrofit a number of its LNG carriers with its air lubrication system.

Five vessels were attacked by pirates in the Eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait on 20 and 23 December with the crew on one assaulted, and tied on up on two, adding to a string of incidents in the busy shipping lane.

Total Marine Fuels Gas Solutions (TMFGS) and Pavilion Energy Singapore have inked a 10-year agreement to develop LNG bunkering the Port of Singapore.

China Merchants Nanjing Tanker inked a contract with Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry for the construction of two 24,000 dwt crude oil tankers.

Container line Ocean Network Express (ONE) is to offer a new service linking South Korea and North Vietnam.

A suspected pirate mothership has been sighted offshore Nigeria roughly between where two kidnapping incidents took place earlier this year.