Dubai-based ports and logistics player DP World has reached an agreement to acquire Australian port-to-door logistics ...

Perth-based OSV operator MMA Offshore has won an offshore wind site survey contract off Australia. On behalf of the key client, Ørsted, the scope is one of the first reconnaissance site surveys taking ...

Australian agencies are conducting a search south of Newcastle in New South Wales for a crewman missing from the 95,522 dwt ...

For dry bulk, Trump’s policies are unlikely to directly impact trades overall, according to analysis from Arrow, even if China went ahead and sourced grain from Brazil rather than the US in the ...

Stainless Tankers of Norway has moved to offload two of its nine vessels. The Oslo-listed outfit backed by UK-based Tufton Investment Management is selling the 2005-built J19 stainless steel units ...

Germany’s top liner Hapag-Lloyd has bought out shipmanager Hamburger Lloyd. The two Hamburg-based companies know each other well, with the manager looking after 29 of Hapag-Lloyd’s ships.

Brazilian port authority Portos do Paraná has signed a letter of intent with representatives of one of the largest global container terminal operators, China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort), a ...

Chinese-Polish multipurpose and heavylift joint venture Chipolbrok has bolstered its orderbook with two newbuilds at Chengxi Shipyard. The state-owned company has signed up for a 62,000 dwt pair ...

Shanghai-headquartered Chinaland, which entered the cape trades in August, has now added a newcastlemax to its fast-expanding fleet. The company, which has traditionally focused on handymaxes ...

The company won a contract for its first CSOV newbuild in July from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners for work on the Fengmiao I offshore wind project. The vessel will be delivered in the first ...

Norwegian oil-services investment company Akastor has acquired Mitsui & Co’s interests in vessel-based subsea well construction and intervention specialist AKOFS Offshore. The company said in an ...

The effects on the US economy can be foreseen, recession and inflation. The effects on shipping can be foreseen too – a reduction in ton-miles. We British have been here before; in the last ...