In a worrying sign of the times a majority of maritime executives believe that integrity is “routinely compromised” in shipping deals, according to a live audience poll carried at the CMA Shipping 2016 conference this week.

Cosco International Holdings has recorded a fall in earnings for 2015 due to the continued slowdown in the growth of international trade, coupled with the lingering oversupply in the shipping industry.

Cyber-threats, crewing practices and increasing activity in the Arctic could all pose major safety and security threats in the coming years, an Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) report has warned.

The depressed state of the shipping market, due mainly to excessive vessel tonnage, is making it difficult for companies to actualise mergers and acquisition (M&A) deals, which are seen as a cure to the deflate the supply glut, industry players...

UK Shipping Minister Robert Goodwill MP has formally opened a new ‘Maritime Knowledge Hub’ in Wirral, UK, jointly operated by Mersey Maritime and Liverpool John Moores University.

The Chinese ministry of industry and information and technology (MIIT) has released a development blueprint for the ship equipment industry under China’s 13th Five-Year Plan for 2016 to 2020.

Cyprus shipping has evolved into one of the leading sectors of the Cypriot economy as well as becoming a major political lever for the betterment of the Eastern Mediterranean region and as the government is determined to ensure the sector is not...

A general strike in Greece has affected ferry and shipping traffic at the ports of Piraeus, Aspropyrgos, Eleusis, Pachi and Megara.

The new theme for 2016’s World Maritime Day is “Indispensable shipping” to reflect the impossibility of sustaining world trade without it.

Shipping will remain “volatile and uncertain” in 2016 thanks to unpredictable Chinese demand and a complex geopolitical picture elsewhere, according to shipping adviser Moore Stephens.