Ocean carriers achieved a six-month high for liner service reliability in May, according to Carrier Performance Insight, the online schedule reliability tool provided by Drewry Supply Chain Advisors. The on-time average of 76.0% for the 10 trades covered was a 4…
Navios Maritime Partners L.P., an owner and operator of container and dry bulk vessels, has appointed Lampros Theodorou to its Board of Directors, the company announced today. Theodorou founded Garnet & Associates Inc. in 2014 and has been Director since that time…
Diana Shipping Inc., through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into a time charter contract with SwissMarine Services S.A., Geneva, for one of its Ice Class Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Crystalia. The gross charter rate is US$6…
Ministry of Shipping has formulated a new Berthing Policy for Dry Bulk Cargo for all Major Ports which will come into effect from 20th August, 2016. The objective of the new Berthing Policy is to: • Provide a standardized framework for calculation of norms…
Slowing growth in the size of the shipping fleet will reduce the shortage of officers over the coming years, according to the latest Manning report published by global shipping consultancy Drewry. The global shipping fleet – encompassing all sectors except the non-cargo carrying ship types…
A seafarers’ charity in Mauritius has been providing pastoral support to the crew of a bulk carrier which ran aground off the country’s southern coast. Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) Port Louis chaplain Fr. Jacques-Henri David has been visiting…
Moody's Japan K.K. says that its outlook for the global shipping industry over the next 12-18 months is negative. 'The negative outlook reflects our expectation that earnings will worsen, with freight rates likely to remain depressed amid ample supply…
The Interlake Steamship Company’s M/V Lee A. Tregurtha sailed today from Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisc., becoming the shipper’s third self-unloading bulk carrier to be outfitted with exhaust gas scrubbers. Interlake became the first U…
The companies that own and operate a Greek shipping vessel and two engineers from the ship were convicted today in U.S. District Court in Seattle of 12 felony counts related to their dumping of oily waste at sea, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L…
The world's largest bulk vessel fleet in terms of both ship numbers and deadweight tonnage COSCO Shipping Bulk Co is officially launched in Guangzhou. Its a merger between two companies - COSCO Bulk Carrier Co and China Shipping Bulk Carrier Co…
Experts believe the dry bulk market is positioned to become profitable by 2019 – but only if a series of sustained measures are taken year on year by the ship owning community as a whole, according to a report recently published by BIMCO. Peter Sand…
The dry bulk shipping industry may not emerge from a protracted downturn for another two years and some smaller firms will be squeezed out, the chairman of France's Louis Dreyfus Armateurs said on Tuesday. The dry bulk sector that transports…
The M/V James R. Barker sailed Sunday from Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisc., becoming Interlake Steamship Company’s first 1,000-footer and its second self-unloading bulk carrier to be outfitted with exhaust gas scrubbers…
The U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, gave the motor vessel Roger Blough permission Saturday to transit down the St. Marys River to anchorage in Potagannissing Bay in the vicinity of DeTour Village, Michigan.The…
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing mariner off the Matson cargo vessel Maunawili approximately 230 miles south of Cold Bay, Alaska, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew hoisted the 20-year-old man and…