The Panama Canal is closely monitoring the evolving COVID-19 outbreak and has adopted a series of measures to protect its personnel and prevent further spread of the virus, it said in a statement Wednesday.

With growing concerns over the difficulties faced by shipowners in making crew changes given restrictions to limit the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak Wilhelmsen Ship Management has explained the approach that it is taking.

Late yesterday morning (March 18) Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) banned all commercial ships from entering ports in Queensland if the ship, or any person onboard, has been in any country outside of Australia within the last 14-days. Shipping...

Shipowner organisations are highlighting the difficulties that regulations aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus – COVID-19 – are having on crew changes, and as well as inspections and repairs.

The dramatic drop calls to ports in the Indian sub-continent has led to a sharp rise container freight rates in the first half of March reflecting the effects of large-scale vessel capacity reductions and equipment shortages.

In view of the escalating challenges as a result of the Coronavirus-COVID-19 pandemic Posidonia 2020, Greece’s international shipping exhibition has been re-scheduled from the first week of June to the end of October 2020.

Container lines are cancelling surcharges for reefer containers destined for Chinese ports as the congestion caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) impact eases.

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) sweeps across Europe and the US causing widespread disruption and lockdowns container shipping could see a loss of 17m teu of cargo in 2020.

US President Donald Trump has clarified that a 30-day travel ban from Europe to the US to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) does not include trade as the original address implied.

All staff in Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) head office in Tokyo are working from home for two weeks as part of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).