USCG and FBI Investigate Cyber Compromises on US-Bound Energy Tankers
U.S. Coast Guard and FBI teams boarded at least two foreign-flagged energy tankers in the Gulf of Mexico in August after authorities found indications that the vessels’ networks had been compromised by foreign cyber...
Ethanol vs Methanol for Ships: The Fuel Economics Owners May Be Missing
Ship Universe Maritime Fuel Report · September 2026 Methanol has spent years building a lead at sea, and it deserves that lead. Engines are operating, bunker procedures are settling down and major ports know...
Marine Fuel Outlook: Tight Bunker Supply and $100+ Oil Keep Shipping Costs Elevated This Week
Marine fuel markets remain under pressure this week as crude oil stays above $100 per barrel, middle-distillate supplies remain tight and bunker availability varies sharply between major ports. Brent was trading near $108 per...
Starlink Changed Ship Connectivity. Zero Trust Could Change Who Gets Into the Engine Room
Maritime Tech • Remote OT Access Beyond the VPN: Zero-Trust Remote Access for Ships in the Starlink Era There was a time when remote access to a ship meant a slow connection opened because...
HD Hyundai and BAR Technologies Advance 174,000-CBM Wind-Assisted LNG Carrier Design
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, BAR Technologies, Korean Register and the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry have launched a joint development project for a 174,000-cbm LNG carrier incorporating BAR Technologies’ WindWings wind-assisted propulsion system....
CMA CGM Tipped for $3B Yangzijiang Megamax Order as 12-Ship LOI Emerges
CMA CGM has been identified by Alphaliner as the likely customer behind a reported Yangzijiang Shipbuilding project for 12 additional 24,000-TEU containerships, with a letter of intent understood to have been signed. The ships...
Cruise Ship Thermal Batteries: Can Stored Waste Heat Replace Boiler Fuel in Port?
Cruise Engineering Report | 2026 Cruise Ships Throw Heat Away at Sea, Then Burn Fuel to Make It Again in Port There is something hard to ignore once you look at a cruise ship’s...
China Opens Pinglu Canal, Creating New 5,000-Tonne Shipping Gateway to Beibu Gulf
China officially opened the 134.2-kilometer Pinglu Canal to navigation on September 16, creating a direct river-to-sea route from Guangxi and southwest China to the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asian shipping lanes. Built at a...
30 Days With No Mechanic: The New Propulsion Standard for Unmanned Naval Ships
Naval propulsion and unmanned vessel report 30 Days With No Mechanic: The New Propulsion Standard for Unmanned Naval Ships The glossy part of an unmanned ship is the autonomy screen. The part that decides...
Oman Evacuates 23 From Attacked Tanker EL GAIA as Search Continues for Two Missing Crew
Omani authorities are continuing search-and-rescue operations after the Panama-flagged oil tanker EL GAIA was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a fire in the vessel’s engine-room area and forcing the evacuation of its...
VLCC Rates Break $1 Million a Day as Hormuz Traffic Collapses
Very large crude carrier earnings have reached unprecedented levels as escalating attacks around the Strait of Hormuz sharply reduce the pool of owners willing to enter the Persian Gulf. The Baltic Exchange’s Middle East...
Can Nuclear Container Ships Actually Trade? The Port, Insurance & Cost Barriers
Ship Universe Report · September 2026 Shipping has a habit of falling in love with the machinery and underestimating everything around it. Nuclear propulsion may be the clearest example. A reactor that can run...
PanStar Acro Reaches Britain in 21 Days via Northern Sea Route
South Korea’s PanStar Acro reached Felixstowe, Britain, on September 12 after a 21-day voyage from Busan through the Northern Sea Route, completing the outbound Arctic crossing of South Korea’s first government-backed container trial to...
The Maritime Cyber Code Is Coming: 12 Ship Systems Owners Should Audit First
Maritime Cyber Readiness 2026 12 Ship Systems Owners Should Audit Before the Rules Get Tighter For years, ship cyber security could be treated as an IT problem: protect the office network, train the crew...
Saudi Oil Bypass Pipeline Remains Offline as Brent Tops $107
Saudi Arabia’s East-West crude pipeline remained offline on September 15 after attacks on the 1,200-kilometer system forced a precautionary shutdown, removing the kingdom’s main overland route for bypassing the heavily disrupted Strait of Hormuz....
Beyond Starlink and How Cruise Ships Are Building Multi-Gigabit Internet at Sea
Cruise Connectivity Report | 2026 Cruise Internet Has Moved Past the Starlink Question Not long ago, cruise ship internet was the amenity everybody paid for and nobody bragged about. That has changed fast. Guests...
$669M Delaware Container Terminal Breaks Ground for 1.2M-TEU Edgemoor Buildout
Enstructure and the Diamond State Port Corporation have broken ground on the $669 million Delaware Container Terminal at Edgemoor, moving the long-planned project into construction after years of permitting and financing work. The 137-acre...
The Autonomous Navy Supply Chain: 25 Technologies Needed to Build an Uncrewed Fleet
Autonomous navy supply-chain report The Autonomous Navy Supply Chain: 25 Technologies Needed to Build an Uncrewed Fleet An uncrewed fleet is not bought by ordering a few drone boats and hoping the software catches...
George Procopiou’s Dynacom Orders Eight Ships at Hengli in Near-$1B VLAC/VLCC Deal
George Procopiou’s Dynacom has placed another eight-vessel newbuilding package with China’s Hengli Heavy Industries in a deal reported at close to $1 billion, further expanding one of the industry’s largest owner-yard construction programs. Hengli...
Hydrogen Injection Without Replacing the Engine
Marine Hydrogen Injection Retrofit Hydrogen Injection Without Replacing the Engine: 10 Checks Before Owners Believe the Fuel-Saving Claim A 24% fuel saving on an 8,500-nautical-mile bulk-carrier voyage will get every owner’s attention. But the...
Japan Adds $635M to Shipyard Revival Push as Five More Yard Groups Win Support
Japan has approved a second round of shipbuilding capacity investments under its Shipbuilding Industry Revitalisation Fund, authorizing up to ¥98 billion, about $635 million, in government support for five plans led by Oshima Shipbuilding,...
Hidden Costs Behind Liquid Hydrogen Cruise Ships
Hydrogen fuel cell cruise ship Liquid hydrogen cruise ships are here. The hard part is everything wrapped around the 6 MW fuel-cell system. The headline sounds clean: hydrogen in, water out. Ship operators know...
Saudi Pipeline Outage Puts 4% of Global Oil Supply at Risk as Red Sea Route Tightens
Saudi Arabia faces the prospect of a sharp reduction in crude exports if its damaged East-West oil pipeline is not restarted within days after drone attacks forced the kingdom to shut the route. The...
Middle East Shipping Squeezed at Both Chokepoints as Houthis Tighten Red Sea Grip and Hormuz Attacks Continue
Yemen’s Houthis have expanded their physical presence around the southern Red Sea after seizing the port of Mokha, Mayun Island inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and, most recently, Greater and Lesser Hanish islands. Commercial...
Inside a Modern SIGINT Ship: 10 Systems Driving the New Naval Intelligence-Vessel Market
Naval intelligence-vessel supplier report Inside a Modern SIGINT Ship: 10 Systems Driving the New Naval Intelligence-Vessel Market Germany’s fourth signals-intelligence ship plan is a reminder that the most valuable equipment on an intelligence vessel...
Maintenance-Free Gyrocompass vs Traditional Gyro: The Marine Retrofit Cost Test
Marine gyrocompass retrofit The gyrocompass decision is moving from accuracy alone to lifetime ownership cost A traditional gyro can be a solid piece of kit, but shipowners know the rhythm: service windows, gyrosphere work,...
Suspected Pirate Hijacking of Bulker Glamor Reported Off Yemen
A suspected pirate hijacking involving the 24,073-dwt Glamor was reported in the Gulf of Aden on September 10 after the vessel was approached by an unidentified skiff approximately 98 nautical miles southwest of Al...
Bunker Strategy 2027: 8 Ways Owners Are Responding to Tight Fuel Supply
ShipUniverse Bunker Strategy Report | September 2026 8 Ways Shipowners Are Reworking Bunker Strategy as Marine Fuel Supplies Tighten Into 2027 There was a time when the bunker meeting mostly came down to price,...
Edge AI vs Cloud AI at Sea
A ship can have a fast satellite connection and still be a bad place to depend on the cloud for every AI decision. Connectivity at sea is better than it has ever been. So...
Drewry WCI Holds at $4,476 as U.S. Container Rates Rise and Europe Lanes Slide
Drewry’s World Container Index held essentially flat for a second week, with the September 10 reading at $4,476 per 40-foot container compared with $4,465 a week earlier, an increase of about 0.2% that Drewry...