Empire Navigation operator of the St Nikolas says a Greek seafarer from the 19-person St Nikolas crew has been released by the Iranian authorities.

For the third time in three days, Houthis targeted a tanker off the coast of Yemen with a ballistic missile attack.

The SeaPod, a situational awareness device developed by digital technology company OrcaAI, has already been installed on ships operated by major groups including Maran Tankers, MSC, NYK, and Seaspan.

Bahri Chemicals has signed a five-year agreement to time charter in two methanol-powered tankers from the Proman Stena Bulk partnership.

NYSE-listed Scorpio Tankers sold one product tanker and taken up purchase options on five others.

Japanese firms Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Toyo Engineering Corporation, JGC Corporation and Chiyoda Corporation have signed a joint venture agreement to enhance the front-end engineering design (FEED) execution for a liquefied hydrogen supply...

Chinese yards accounted for 50% of 2023 world shipyard output on a compensated gross tonnage (CGT) basis, according to Clarksons Research.

China was the world’s largest shipbuilding nation in 2023 across all three measures of output, new shipbuilding contracts and orders-on-hand. It was also achieved double-digit growth across all three in 2023.

LNG giant QatarEnergy has reportedly entered into an agreement with Hudong-Zhonghua for the construction of eight Q-Max LNG carriers, as part of its shipbuilding programme.

The effect of the latest attack on USS Laboon by a Houthi fired anti-ship cruise missile has been for more ships avoid the Suez/Red Sea route as the carriers consider the region unsafe.