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 subsea fiber cable will not replace every coastal radar, but it may replace the next radar in the wrong place Perhaps we should judge distributed acoustic sensing as a corridor-surveillance...
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 metal additive manufacturing report Should every warship carry a metal 3D printer? Perhaps the right answer is not every warship. It is every deployed naval force should have access to a certified metal...
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 Should Budget Before the Next Renewal Survey A ship crane that has worked for years can still become a...
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...
Cruise Food Waste Machines Are Becoming a Shipboard ROI Battle
Cruise Food Waste Machine ROI Report The winning food-waste system is not one machine. It is a sorted pathway. I see Star Princess operating 26 food-waste machines as a useful signal because cruise waste...
Austal Starts Third Heritage-Class OPC as $3.3B Coast Guard Program Accelerates in Mobile
Austal USA has started construction of its third Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter, the future USCGC Ingham, at its Mobile, Alabama, shipyard, putting three of the Coast Guard’s next-generation offshore workhorses into production at the...
VLCC Rates Are Turning Into the Cleanest Signal in the Crude Tanker Market
VLCC Market Rundown Frontline Locks VLCCs at Up to $120,000 Per Day, But the Bigger Story Is the Rate Ladder Behind It Frontline locking VLCCs at rates up to $120,000 per day is not...
Sempra Starts Permitting 26-Mtpa Port Arthur LNG North Expansion That Could Double Gulf Coast Export Hub
Sempra Infrastructure has opened the federal permitting process for Port Arthur LNG North, a proposed four-train expansion in Southeast Texas that would add approximately 26 million tonnes per annum of nameplate LNG capacity, with...
Kongsberg Lands Full-Ship Systems Package for Solstad/SBM’s 4,000m Deepwater Newbuild
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a broad integrated-systems contract for the new multi-purpose deepwater installation and construction vessel being built for the 50.1% Solstad Offshore / 49.9% SBM Offshore joint venture at CIMC Raffles’ Haiyang...
FuelEU Methane Slip Measurement ROI – When Actual Engine Data Beats Default Factors
FuelEU methane slip ROI Methane slip measurement is becoming a financial decision, not only an emissions report Perhaps we should judge methane-slip reporting by avoided compliance cost, not only by environmental accuracy. FuelEU gives...
Gulf Bypass Buildout Accelerates as Hormuz Risk Rewrites Energy Logistics
Gulf states are moving faster to build around the Strait of Hormuz as shipping risk, insurance pressure and uneven traffic recovery turn the region’s main chokepoint into a long-term infrastructure problem. The UAE is...
Can Waste Heat Extend a Destroyer’s Range? 8 Numbers Behind the Navy’s New DDG-51 Energy-Recovery Push
DDG-51 energy recovery and range analysis Can waste heat extend a destroyer’s range? Perhaps the most useful way to look at the Navy’s new DDG-51 waste-heat requirement is not as a green technology story....
Drewry WCI Slips as Container Rates Enter a More Uneven Phase
Drewry’s latest World Container Index update shows the container market cooling slightly after three straight weekly gains, but this is not a clean reset lower. The composite index fell 1% to $4,473 per 40ft...
Cruise Ships May Be Throwing Away More Heat Than Fuel
Cruise Waste Heat Investment Map The best fuel-saving project may already be hot and leaving the ship Cruise waste heat is perhaps one of the most underpriced retrofit markets onboard a large passenger ship....
Sempra Seeks Permits for 27 Mtpa Port Arthur LNG Expansion That Could Double Texas Export Capacity
Sempra Infrastructure has started the federal permitting process for Port Arthur LNG North, a proposed four-train expansion of its LNG complex on the Sabine-Neches Waterway in Southeast Texas. The new project is designed for...
Should Your Next Ship Still Be LNG Dual-Fuel? 10 Numbers to Run Before Signing a Newbuild Contract
2027 Newbuild Decision Should Your Next Ship Still Be LNG Dual-Fuel? 10 Numbers to Run Before Signing a Newbuild Contract Höegh Autoliners ordering six more LNG dual-fuel Aurora-class car carriers is a reminder that...
IAEA Launches ATLAS to Bring Nuclear Power Back to Civilian Shipping as IMO Targets New Rules by 2030
Nuclear-powered merchant shipping moved a significant step closer to becoming an organized international industry on August 26 when the International Atomic Energy Agency launched ATLAS, Atomic Technologies Licensed for Applications at Sea, in Washington....
Turbo Blower vs Screw Compressor for Air Lubrication Net Fuel Savings
ALS net fuel savings The blower choice can turn a great air lubrication claim into an average retrofit Perhaps we should judge an air lubrication system by net fuel savings, not headline drag reduction....
Prize Courts Return to the Maritime Risk Map as U.S. Targets Seized Tankers
The U.S. administration’s move to revive prize courts could become one of the most unusual legal developments in modern shipping. Prize law is not a normal sanctions tool, port-state-control action or civil forfeiture case....
Should Every ASW Frigate Carry Its Own Unmanned Sonar Boat?
Future ASW frigate and offboard sonar report Should every ASW frigate carry its own unmanned sonar boat? I think the Netherlands has asked the right question first. Not whether uncrewed sonar boats are exciting,...