Marine Insight

Somalia’s navy has rescued all 18 crew members from the cargo ship Jacuar after the vessel ran aground and started taking on water while sailing from Mozambique to Egypt. The …

Tensions flared between China and the Philippines once again after a Chinese Coast Guard ship rammed into a Philippine government vessel in the contested waters of the South China Sea. …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that they struck and detained a Togo-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, September 18. The Guards said the tanker, Trend, was trying …

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), the largest shipbuilding facility in India, has laid the keel for the first of six Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMV) being built for the Indian Navy. …

A cargo ship sailing under the flag of Tanzania was attacked by a Russian drone while it was heading to a port in Ukraine. Due to the impact, the captain …

Saronic Technologies has won a U.S. Navy contract to build multiple Landing Craft Utility (LCU) vessels. The contract is a firm fixed-price agreement awarded under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA). …

K Shipbuilding and Lloyd’s Register have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop a 50,000 dwt, ethanol-fuelled medium-range tanker. Announced at Gastech 2026 in Bangkok, the joint development project …

Carnival Cruise Line today opened sailings for its 2028/29 season from Galveston, featuring a new lineup of shorter cruise options aboard Carnival Jubilee that include stops at Paradise Collection exclusive …

NYK Line, with Japan Marine United Corporation, Nihon Shipyard Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., and Kokuka Sangyo Co., Ltd., has completed the world’s first ship-to-ship (STS) ammonia bunkering …

As part of NEDO’s “Green Innovation Fund Project / Next-Generation Ship Development”, Japan Engine Corporation (Hereafter, “Japan Engine”), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Hereafter, “Kawasaki”), and Yanmar Power Solutions Co., Ltd. …

Image for representation purposes only Hanwha Power announced on September 16 that it has obtained approval in principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the concept design …

Lloyd’s Register (LR), Seapeak, Kongsberg Maritime (KM), and Tunable have launched a new joint development project (JDP) to facilitate compliance and independently verify the accuracy of KM’s Continuous Emissions Monitoring …

Finnish authorities boarded and searched a vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, Sept. 17, as part of a live exercise to prepare for possible damage to underwater infrastructure. Masked …

Italy’s warship Giuseppe Garibaldi has been acquired by Indonesia and is set to become its first-ever aircraft carrier. The vessel, which will be renamed KRI Sriwijaya, left Italy’s Taranto on …

The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan has returned to its operational fleet after an 18-month maintenance programme at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington. The roughly 100,000-ton Nimitz-class …

India and Pakistan exchanged diplomatic protests on Wednesday, Sept. 16, after naval ships from the two countries came into contact in the Arabian Sea during a Pakistani naval exercise. Pakistan …

French fishermen blocked the entrances to the ports of Nice and Sete and an oil depot in Frontignan on Thursday, Sept. 17. They were protesting against rising fuel prices linked …

Italy has decided to send its naval ships to protect the freedom of navigation in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait before it becomes impassable, given the recent seizure of Perim Island by …

Authorities are conducting search and rescue operations along the northwestern coast of Japan after an auxiliary vessel sank when it was being towed by a cargo vessel registered in North …

Italian lifting equipment manufacturer ASCOM S.p.A. has started building a boat hoist that will be able to lift vessels weighing up to 1,700 tonnes. The company says the BHT 1700 …

The United States sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank on Thursday, Sept. 17, accusing it of handling Bitcoin payments linked to ships using the Strait of Hormuz. The US Treasury Department’s …

A Turkish shipowner, 12 crew members of the cargo ship Reyhan Sari and the family of a sailor killed in a drone attack have filed a complaint with the International …

A modern port relies on automation software, helping it speed up operations and increase the end-to-end efficiency of cargo loading and offloading, from gate to ship and vice versa. Modern …

General Dynamics Electric Boat has completed the first Virginia Payload Module (VPM) for the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarines. The 184-foot section was moved by barge from Quonset Point to Electric …

Plastic pellets released when the container ship MSC ELSA-3 sank off India’s Keralam coast in May 2025 are still being found along the coast, a year after the accident. Some …

A vessel operating under a US contract near the Strait of Hormuz was hit by four Iranian drones and at least one missile earlier this week, US media reported on …

The U.S. Navy has awarded defence technology company Castelion up to $200 million to produce its Blackbeard hypersonic missile for carrier-based fighter jets. The order covers the manufacture, assembly, testing …

A fire aboard the cruise ship Amadea forced about 320 passengers to leave the vessel while it was docked at Rønne in Denmark on Monday, September 14. No passengers or …

The U.S. Navy has banned sailors living in a barracks at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego from using portable air conditioners because the building’s old electrical system cannot …

Personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Oman met Houthi Representatives in Muscat, a few days after the group captured a stretch of Yemen’s coast on the Red Sea. The talks …

Korean Register (KR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), UK-based wind propulsion technology company BAR Technologies, and the Liberian International Ship & Corporate …

Authorities in Indonesia are preparing to right a capsized passenger vessel that turned over the previous weekend in the Java Sea, killing 6 people. The Virgo Transport 8 was sailing …

Oil prices dropped 1.2% following Saudi Arabia’s announcement of using Oman to ship its crude oil, easing concerns over supply disruptions due to the US-Iran War, which has closed the …

Two former U.S. Navy sailors pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to selling counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to fellow sailors, including crew members of the aircraft carrier USS …

New analysis from Sofar Ocean finds that widely used marine forecasts can miss wave conditions associated with dangerous vessel rolling and cargo losses. Most forecasts tell ships how high waves …

Since the current conflict in the Middle East began on 28 February, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has verified 80 attacks on international shipping in and around the Strait of …

KR (Korean Register) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) at Gastech 2026 in Bangkok on September 15 for the joint development of a …

SGMF has published its latest Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on methanol as a marine fuel, highlighting the significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of renewable and synthetic methanol production pathways. …

The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez, has called on Member States to refrain from actions that endanger merchant ships and put seafarers’ lives at risk. Addressing …

India is looking at ways to use steel recovered from old ships in more industries as it seeks to support domestic steel production and get more value from ship recycling. …

A Pakistan Navy vessel collided with an Indian warship in the Arabian Sea during a routine surveillance operation, after which New Delhi called for the Charge d’Affaires of Pakistan to …

The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships allowed through the waterway again from October as a severe drought linked to El Niño leaves less water available to run …

Celebrity Cruises has floated out Celebrity Compass, its first river cruise ship, as the company gets ready to enter the European river cruise market in 2027. The float-out began at …

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will move four more container services through the Suez Canal as the two companies bring more ships back to the shorter route between Asia and Europe. The …

A Russian frigate fired two flares towards a Danish military helicopter in the Baltic Sea, with one passing just metres from the aircraft, Denmark’s armed forces said on Tuesday. The …

An Indonesian ferry overturned in less than 10 minutes after being hit by waves as high as 3 to 4 metres, a survivor told Reuters. Six people died and 129 …

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) will invest around ₹27,000 crore to set up a greenfield shipbuilding cluster at Dighi in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, India. The project is expected to create …

The US military destroyed two small Iranian boats after they tried to seize a US unmanned surface vessel near the Strait of Hormuz, US officials said. The incident happened on …

Maersk is planning to order 42 new LNG dual-fuel container ships in a fleet expansion worth an estimated $8.9 billion, with Chinese shipyards expected to get most of the work. …

The National Transportation Safety Board released Safer Seas Digest 2025, a collection of safety lessons drawn from the NTSB’s marine investigations completed in 2025. The annual publication provides the marine …