Before Installing Rotor Sails & The Ship-wide Systems Owners Likely Need to Integrate
Wind-Assisted Propulsion Integration Wind Propulsion Isn’t Just a Sail: 10 Ship Systems Owners Must Integrate Before Installing Rotor Sails Rotor sails are moving from novelty deck equipment into the machinery and navigation conversation. Maersk...
Ray Car Carriers’ $1B China PCTC Order Signals a New Phase in Car-Carrier Shipbuilding
Ray Car Carriers’ move into China for a $1 billion-plus batch of LNG dual-fuel car carriers looks like more than another large order in a hot sector. It points to a market where vehicle-export...
UK Proposes New Legal Navigation Duties for Masters and Owners as 2027 SOLAS Rewrite Expands Liability
The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency has opened a four-week consultation on a major rewrite of its merchant-shipping navigation rules that would put several SOLAS Chapter V requirements more directly into domestic law and...
Autonomous Ship Technology After the MASS Code: 10 Systems Moving Onto Conventional Vessels
Shipboard AI and naval decision-support report Shipboard AI is moving from demo to procurement decision The real question is not whether artificial intelligence belongs at sea. It is where the crew can trust it,...
Black Sea Ships Add Nets and Water Tanks as Drone War Reaches Merchant Decks
Commercial ships moving through the Bosphorus from the Black Sea are now being seen with improvised anti-drone protection fitted to hulls, stern areas and superstructures. The measures include nets, tires and water-filled containers, with...
How Older Cruise Ships Can Keep Earning Premium Yields
Cruise CAPEX Allocation Old ships can still earn new yields, but not with old systems underneath A cruise ship can look tired on paper long before it is tired commercially. The smart money is...
Saudi Crude Exports Collapse 59% to Nine-Year Low as Tanker Threats Hit Both Export Routes
Saudi Arabia’s observed crude exports fell to roughly 3.0 million barrels per day in August, the lowest level in tanker-tracking records going back to early 2017 and less than half the roughly 7.3 million...
Naval Shipyards Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Technology Projects and the Key Systems Behind the Next Generation of Fleet Maintenance
Naval shipyard modernization report Naval shipyards are becoming billion-dollar technology projects Anyone who has watched a yard lose time over power, water, cranes, material flow or late planning knows the dry dock is only...
World’s First Ethanol-Powered VLOC Moves Closer to Reality as Everllence Clears G80 Engine Test
Everllence has successfully tested and verified the G80 ME-LGIMe ethanol-capable two-stroke engine intended for the third vessel in Shandong Shipping’s ten-ship Guaibamax program for Vale. The engine completed R&D testing at HD Hyundai Heavy...
Can Shipowners Prove AI Actually Saves Fuel? 8 Technologies Needed for Bankable Voyage Optimization
AI Voyage Optimization Can Shipowners Prove AI Actually Saves Fuel? 8 Technologies Needed to Turn Voyage Optimization Into Bankable Savings Anyone who has watched a voyage estimate get cleaned up after the fact knows...
U.S. Navy Weighs Japanese, Korean and Turkish Frigates as Door Opens to Foreign-Built Warships
The White House and U.S. Navy are evaluating frigate designs from Japan, South Korea and Türkiye as part of a new international surface-combatant acquisition effort, according to reporting published September 1. Designs under consideration...
The Shipboard OT Cybersecurity Stack: 10 Connected Systems Owners Can No Longer Leave Exposed
Shipboard OT cybersecurity stack Connected ships have outgrown “install a firewall and hope” cybersecurity A modern vessel is no longer just a hull, engine and bridge team with email tacked on. The bridge, engine...
Hormuz Reopens in Bursts as Tanker Attacks Keep the Trade Lane on Edge
The last 48 hours turned the Strait of Hormuz into a mixed signal for shipping and energy markets. Some oil is still moving, and U.S. officials pointed to a strong Monday flow through the...
Cruise Lines Are Adding Cabins Instead of Buying Ships
Cruise Drydock Capacity Strategy Adding cabins is the easy part. Feeding the extra people through the ship is the real work. A drydock cabin conversion looks clean on a deck plan. At sea, 50...
Sweden’s $5B French Frigate Deal Reshapes Baltic Naval Procurement
Sweden has moved its next-generation surface fleet from selection to contract, signing with Naval Group for four French-built air-defence frigates that will form the new Luleå class. The program gives the Swedish Navy a...
KDDX and the Digital Warship Era: The Top Systems Behind 5G-Connected Destroyers
Naval systems and smart warship report Inside the digital warship Spend enough time around ship programs and one lesson keeps coming back: the headline weapon is rarely the whole story. South Korea’s KDDX is...
Tidewater’s $500 Million Brazil Deal Turns OSV Scale Into the Main Prize
Tidewater has completed its $500 million acquisition of Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore, closing a deal that adds 22 platform supply vessels and significantly expands the company’s position in Brazil. The acquired business includes Wilson,...
Cargo Securing Inspections Start Today and 10 PSC Checks That Can Delay a Sailing
PSC Campaign Starts Today Cargo Securing Inspections Start Today: 10 Things Port State Control Will Check Before Your Ship Sails From September 1 to November 30, 2026, Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU inspectors are...
Cruise Ships Can Tracking Passenger Flow Without Cameras
Camera-Free Cruise Crowd Analytics 5,000 guests. No cameras. Real crowd intelligence. AIDA’s Innovation Hub has put camera-free passenger-flow analytics into the cruise spotlight. The commercial value is clear: shorter queues, smarter staffing, safer crowd...
NYK Takes 50% of Avenir LNG as Bunkering Scale Becomes the Next Fuel Battleground
NYK’s purchase of half of Avenir LNG moves LNG bunkering deeper into the hands of large strategic shipowners at a time when dual-fuel orders, bio-LNG interest and fuel-security concerns are reshaping marine-fuel planning. The...
AI Agents Are Moving Into the Fleet Operations Desk: 10 Shipping Jobs They Could Automate First
Agentic AI in fleet operations AI agents are moving from dashboards into the daily shipping desk The shift is simple: older maritime software recommended actions. Agentic software starts handling the coordination around those actions....
Russia Puts $116B Price Tag on Arctic Shipping Push as Cargo Target Jumps Toward 150M Tonnes
Russia estimates that building the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor into a large-scale commercial transport system will require about RUB10 trillion, roughly $116 billion, through 2035. Rosatom chief executive Alexey Likhachev said the financial model calls...
Two Saudi-Loaded Supertankers Hit Near Hormuz as Visible Commodity Traffic Falls to Just Five
Two VLCCs carrying a combined 4 million barrels of Saudi crude were struck by unidentified projectiles within minutes of each other while sailing outbound through the Strait of Hormuz late Monday, sharply escalating an...
Can a Frigate Survive 100 Cheap Drones? The Systems Behind Next-Generation Shipboard Counter-UAS
Shipboard counter-UAS systems report Only if it stops treating drones as single targets. The next frigate needs a layered counter-UAS stack that can find, classify, jam, shoot, burn or confuse drones without emptying its...
COSCO’s $3 Billion Boxship Order Turns Fleet Renewal Into a Capacity Race
COSCO Shipping Holdings has committed nearly $3 billion to another round of containership newbuildings, ordering 18 vessels from Chinese shipyards under the CSSC group. The package includes 12 LNG dual-fuel 22,000 TEU class ships...
Can a Fiber-Optic Cable Replace Another Coastal Radar? 8 Numbers Behind Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Dark-Ship Detection
DAS dark-ship detection A fiber cable is not a coastal radar. That may be the whole point. Coastal radar gives the watch floor a surface picture. Distributed Acoustic Sensing turns a subsea fiber into...
Panama Canal Loosens Booking Rules as $5.3M Auction Bid Exposes Slot Squeeze
The Panama Canal has temporarily rewritten key parts of its Neopanamax reservation system as reduced water availability tightens transit capacity and competition for guaranteed passages intensifies. Effective August 30 for transit booking dates beginning...
Should Every Warship Carry a Metal 3D Printer?
Shipboard additive manufacturing report Should every warship carry a metal 3D printer? The better question is where the fleet needs metal manufacturing capacity. A carrier, amphib or tender can be a production node. A...
Your Ship’s Cranes Are Now a SOLAS Issue: 10 Costs Owners Should Budget Before the Next Renewal Survey
SOLAS 2026 Lifting Appliances Your Ship’s Cranes Are Now a SOLAS Issue: 10 Costs Owners Need in the Renewal-Survey Budget Most ship cranes do not become a problem because the hook suddenly cannot lift....
Hormuz Tanker Traffic Collapses Again as U.S.-Iran Strikes Put Shipping Back in the Line of Fire
Hormuz shipping is back in the firing line after a new round of U.S.-Iran attacks shattered the latest attempt to stabilize one of the world’s most important energy corridors. U.S. forces struck Iranian launchers...