Silke Lehmköster has been appointed MD of the Hapag-Lloyd fleet following her meteoric rise from an apprenticeship in 2005 to Captain in 2018.

A temporary alternate channel is being established around the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge for commercially essential vessels.

Svitzer and MAN Energy Solutions have agreed to cooperate on the development of a dual fuel methanol engine for tugs under a new memorandum of understanding.

A missile attack on a Chinese-owned, Chinese-operated oil tanker on March 23 caused damage and a fire onboard.

QatarEnergy has entered in time charters with Nakilat for the operation of 25 of its newbuild 174,000 cu m LNG vessels.

CMA CGM has teamed up with newcomer Saudi container line Folk Maritime on an upgraded service between Jeddah and the North Red Sea.

In a bid to emphasise the seriousness of the Red Sea Situation, The International Bargaining Forum’s (IBF) Warlike Operations Area Committee (WOAC) unanimously agreed to designate the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ‘Warlike’.

As P&O Ferries launches its newest hybrid vessel, the maritime industry remembers the mass firing of almost 800 seafarers in 2022.