Cyprus-based bulker and boxship owner Castor Maritime has completed a sale and leaseback transaction with a Japanese counterparty for one of its kamsarmaxes. The Nasdaq-listed company has struck a ...

AI will transform tomorrow’s systems to provide self-optimising ships under human supervision, reckons the head of OneLink Performance, a solution that unites a number of performance platforms ...

Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won an offshore contract with an unnamed ‘prestigious’ client in the Middle East.

The global shipping industry was rocked by two deadly attacks in the Red Sea, with Yemen’s Houthi rebels launching their first campaign against merchant shipping of the year, sinking two bulk ...

Chinese import demand for non-ferrous ores including bauxite and battery metals looks set to grow, supporting dry bulk demand. Aluminium output was up 3.4% year on year in June and 3.3% year on ...

Captain Naveen Singhal and Captain M.M. Saggi have suggestions on how to clamp down on the scourge of misdeclared cargoes. Containerisation has been a game-changer in the carriage of goods ...

Singapore‑headquartered shipmanager Synergy Marine Group has named Vikas Trivedi as co‑CEO – ship management, with specific responsibility for its tanker and gas carrier division.

Shipping’s first centrifugal onboard carbon capture system has been installed at Turkey’s Besiktas Shipyard aboard an LR2 product tanker owned by Scorpio Tankers.

Germany’s Hartmann Group has exercised an option for a seventh 3,500 teu containership at Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering, continuing its LNG dual-fuel newbuilding programme tied to US carrier ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Sunday declared an escalation in their maritime campaign, announcing they will now target any ships belonging to companies that do business with Israeli ports ...

Ukraine is preparing to launch a pilot scheme allowing the remote processing of seafarers’ identity documents (SID) for thousands of its seafarers stranded abroad by war, bureaucracy, and ...

Dr Jens Tülsner from Marine Medical Solutions writes for Splash today. The maritime industry says it cares about seafarer wellbeing, and I believe it does, but too often the way it shows that ...