Esben Poulsson has been appointed as the new president of the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) as Patrick Phoon stood down after four years in the role.

On 29 June Greek banks and the country's stock exchange remained shut and will do so for at least a week said the government as it imposed capital controls amid fears of a Greek debt default and exit from the Euro.

The fourth edition of the Pacific Basin Soccer Sixes came back better than ever this year with a full complement of 16 teams battling it out at the Hong Kong Football Club on a scorching hot Friday evening.

The shipping crisis seems to have had little impact on Greece’s major owners as the largest owners have increased in number and their fleets are bigger.

The Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) has organised an internal meeting last Friday to discuss and strategise on ship financing matters, reports said.

Shipping is one of the few industries which continues today to significantly support the economy of Cyprus without any investment on the part of the state and could contribute much more provided certain measures advocated by the Cyprus Shipping...

Greece has secured an extension to its bailout from its European partners through a series of compromises. As the bargaining between Brussels and Athens was going on international shipping financers were talking up the spirit of compromise being...

I really have to report on a recent conversation at my 15-year-old daughter’s school. It went like this: Philippa: ‘My mother went on board the biggest container ship in the world.’ (the 19,100 teu CSCL Globe, at Felixstowe)

The shipping and bunker refining industries must move to prepare for the global 0.5% sulphur cap, even if it is delayed until 2025, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has stated.

China’s ministry of transport has spelled out a roadmap to 2020 on the development of its shipping industry, in a bid to raise the sector’s level of services and global competitiveness.