Additional fuel bill costs of $600,000 to $1m a year for switching to cleaner fuel for vessels when legislation to make it mandatory kicks in next year may force lines to switch from Hong Kong to neighbouring Shenzhen, according to local media...

APM Terminals Rotterdam is retrofitting five of its existing post-Panamax cranes with new booms, to allow for a 23-container row reach for 18,000teu vessels.

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) scooped three awards last night at the 10th Anniversary Seatrade Middle East & Indian Subcontinent Awards.

Russia’s Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Korean Register (KR) for technical co-peration on icebreakers and LNG.

ABB, power and automation technology group, has won over $23m worth of orders to provide waste heat recovery systems to 14 containerships.

ICS has told the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Warsaw that shipping companies already had “every incentive they need” to reduce CO2 emissions.

The fickle nature of shipping routes, cargo trends, supply chain repositioning and customer choice can be especially tough on smaller ports, especially when they have pushed the boat out, as it were, to accommodate a major chunk of business.

Panama’s Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT), a joint venture between Seattle-based SSA International and local investors, has been partially paralised by an illegal strike since last Wednesday night, and currently working at only 50% of its...

Intertanko has criticised the criminal disobedience conviction of Captain Apostolos Mangouras following the 2002 Prestige oil spill, despite his acquittal of criminal damage charges.

Euronav has sold double-hulled VLCC Ardenne Venture for $41.7m, in an attempt to pay down its debts.