After a two-month city-wide lockdown against Covid outbreaks, Shanghai is close to zero cases and will fully resume factory production and operations from 1 June.

The UK Home Office has terminated a contract with P&O Ferries as part of a review of the government’s work with the ferry operator.

The US has a new ‘Ports Czar’, officially Port and Supply Chain Envoy in the US Department of Transportation with Stephen Lyons, US Army General (Retired), succeeding John Porcari.

The British-Dutch biofuel producer Argent Energy is expanding its second-generation biodiesel production capacity in the Port of Amsterdam to provide sustainable shipping and road transport.

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has contracted its first containership newbuildings from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Nihon Shipyard Ltd.

The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has released its ranking of Latin American ports in 2021 with Panama Caribbean Coast port area leading from a list of 102 terminals.

Menon Economics, an Oslo consultancy, has forecast that floating offshore wind could create more than 50,000 new jobs and win a 5-14% share of the global floating market by the middle of the century.

Seafarers continue to face serious challenges with crew change and vaccination requirements warns industry body Intercargo.

A stand-off has developed over the weekend between Greece and Iran over the seizure of oil tankers in the waters of Greece and the Persian Gulf.

Affected by the covid-pandemic domestically, the major shipbuilding indexes of Chinese shipyards showed clear decline during January-April 2022.