Shipping technology firms ZeroNorth and Alpha Ori Technologies have received regulatory approvals for their merger and will integrate under the brand ZeroNorth.

Container lines and their clients are engaging in their annual pre-contract rate dance, aided, to a certain degree, by analysts’ forecasts on the state of the industry.

SeaLead and Blue Water Line are rolling out a new service connecting Indian ports with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has completed a carbon insetting trial with 123Carbon that aims to allow customers to reduce their Scope 3 emissions.

Shipping associations have welcomed the European Union’s operation Aspides, a defensive maritime security operation to protect shipping in the Red Sea.

The Chinese private shipbuilder, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, has entered into a contract with Danaos Corporation for the construction of two methanol-ready 8,258 teu container ships.

Damen Shipyard has unveiled its new Compact Tug ASD Tug 1810 designed for modern port operations.

Netherlands-based stainless steel chemicals tanker owner, Chemship, has commissioned the upgraded 2015-built Chemical Challenger, the first ship in its fleet to have a wind sail retrofit.

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder, but few observers would describe the widening chasm that has opened between western and some Middle Eastern interests in the Red Sea as objectively attractive.

Heavy lift outfit Jumbo Offshore will be represented by Sea Horizon offshore in the Middle East under a new agreement between the companies.