As Europe scrambles to replace Russian pipeline gas with LNG imports by ship a lack of receiving terminal infrastructure is set to boost demand for Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs).

Australia has banned the aframax tanker AG Neptune for six months for failure to fully pay crew wages and other Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) violations.

Risks to shipping markets were in focus as analysts from Maritime Strategies International (MSI) shared their opinions and outlook on the dry bulk, container, oil and newbuilding sectors.

Shipping shares have sailed an erratic course during 2022 pushed in conflicting directions by strength, actual or prophesied, in a particular maritime sector, but then being jarred off-course by the overall punishing conditions in the broader...

The Baltic Exchange is continuing to see growth in its Asian membership, one of its fastest growing regions.

Satcomms provider Inmarsat has published guidance on improving cyber security in the maritime industry beyond baseline regulatory compliance.

Oslo-based analyst, Rystad Energy, has warned that energy turmoil, caused largely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sanctions that followed, may cause ‘vast demand destruction across industries and consumers’ in Europe.

Shell, ENGIE, Vopak and Anthony Veder have agreed a feasibility study into producing green hydrogen in Portugal and distributing it in the Netherlands.

Panama’s Cabinet Council has approved the Panama Canal new toll structure which will become effective, January 2023.

The port of Antwerp-Bruges reported a 1.3% increase in overall cargo volumes in the first six months of 2022, but with a drop in container throughput.