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Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk will reroute four Gemini Cooperation services through the Red Sea and Suez Canal following an assessment of the region’s security situation. The NE4, SE1, SE2 and IEX services will transition from the Cape of Good Hope route to the shorter Red Sea passage. First westbound sailings Service Vessel Voyage Last call before […]
Middle Eastern shipping patterns face another violent reshuffle after fresh vessel attacks around Hormuz, the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline and the Houthis’ advance into the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Two more commercial vessels were attacked on Sunday. The Panama-flagged 47,999 dwt product tanker El Gaia was struck off Oman, …
Shipping may never become predictable. The smarter objective is to make commercial decisions that remain strong even when the assumptions behind them move. Natalia Liashenko, founder and CEO of Marine Solver, explains. Shipping has never operated in a stable environment. Freight markets turn, bunker prices move, congestion builds, weather disrupts schedules and geopolitical events can …
Reported VLCC spot rates from the Gulf to Asia surpass $600,000 per day with very high across all key trades
By Alex Lawler and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn’t restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days,...
Houthi drones and missiles struck Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery and its adjoining tank farms for the second time this year, forcing the plant offline and igniting fires visible from orbit.
Over the weekend, U.S. and Iranian forces continued to trade tit-for-tat maritime strikes on each others' shipping interests, though at smaller scale....
CAIRO, Sept 13 (Reuters) – A vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime ?Trade Operations said early on Sunday. The crew were...
Sept 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. has asked tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz to sail only at specific times to guarantee military protection after Iran stepped up attacks on ships...
The Gemini Cooperation partners, Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk, have folded their China–South Korea A04 relay service into the China–Korea–Malacca A14 service. The revised A14 rotation will cover: Xingang – Dalian – Busan – Xingang – Tanjung Pelepas – Singapore – Xiamen – Busan – Xingang Previously, the A14 operated with the following rotation: Xingang – Tanjung […]
Omani Navy evacuating crew of Panama-flagged vessel struck by an unknown projectile
China’s completion of a second commercial Arctic container voyage to Britain in 2026 should be read less as an isolated technical achievement than as a deliberate positioning within a still-unresolved realignment of Asia-Europe shipping.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has taken a new step to build remembrance of the 9/11 attack into its infrastructure, creating a permane...
U.S. officials have confirmed that Saudi Aramco's East-West Pipeline - the key bypass route carrying Gulf oil around the contested Strait of Hormuz -...
The Port of Long Beach handled 919,992 TEUs in August 2026, the busiest August on record and the fifth-strongest single month in the port’s 115-year history, representing a 2% increase compared to August 2025. The result was announced jointly by Port CEO Dr Noel Hacegaba and Captain Stacey Crecy, commander of US Coast Guard Sector […]
Four consecutive typhoons created berthing delays lasting up to two weeks across Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and Yantian due to terminal closures and ships having to shelter from the storm, Xeneta said in a report.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is still running far below normal, but the latest UKMTO data shows a steady flow of ships continuing to move through the waterway, much...
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Friday, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, moving to tighten their grip on a vital global shipping route in the widening Middle East war.
Empty container yard operations at Mundra Port have resumed after operators called off a 13-day strike that disrupted container movements at India’s largest commercial port. According to Indian media reports, the Mundra Empty Container Yards & Allied Services Provider Association (MECYASA) informed stakeholders that operations would resume following negotiations involving industry stakeholders and government officials. […]
The Port of Long Beach handled its busiest August on record as U.S. container imports remained stronger than expected through the late summer peak season. The port moved 919,992 twenty-foot...
The Houthis have accelerated their advance over the past 36 hours in southwest Yemen to complete their capture of the entire Red Sea coastline of Yeme...
A third of deep-sea traffic that had been diverted since Houthi militant attacks began in late 2023 has now returned to shorter Red Sea voyages, but don't expect that to show up in freight pricing, says the analyst.
Hapag-Lloyd has reported a schedule delay for the container vessel Amalthea following a main engine breakdown. The vessel, operating voyage 2636S on the WWA service, is currently undergoing repairs. As a result, its call at Lisbon has been delayed. The latest estimated arrival is 18 September 2026. Hapag-Lloyd noted that the date remains subject to […]
The rollout impacted some shipments in Q2, but the company expects benefits from the technology in the long term.
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