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A €29.3m ($32.8m) German state-aid package for the planned EUREGIO rail-road freight terminal at Stolberg, near Aachen, has won EU approval, according to a European Commission statement. The funding will …

Dutch contractor Van Oord and Vestas have installed the last of 52 turbines at the 760-MW Ecowende offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, moving the project into its final construction …

Russia and Iran have put maritime security in the Black Sea and Strait of Hormuz at the centre of the IMO Council’s 138th session in London from 2 to 6 …

Riga has opened an €82.6m ($92.4m) road overpass linking the city’s main arterial road network with the Freeport of Riga’s industrial area on Kundziņsala, where port checkpoints handle about 360,000 …

Groups from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have signed agreements to develop a new trans-Caspian ferry system and an intermodal freight terminal at the Baku International Sea Trade Port, according to a …

Israeli container carrier ZIM Integrated Shipping Services will launch a new expedited transpacific service in December, linking Xiamen and Shanghai in China with Los Angeles on the US West Coast, …

Alternative-fuel vessel orders jumped 57% year on year to 364 ships in the first 10 months of 2026, with LNG accounting for 230 contracts, according to DNV’s Alternative Fuels Insight …

Terra Clove, identified by Envision as the world's first very large ammonia carrier equipped with dual-fuel ammonia propulsion, has been bunkered with green ammonia in South Korea, according to a …

Australia has completed its first green ammonia bunkering operation, supplying the Belgian-flagged, 210,000-dwt Newcastlemax Mineral Europa in a ship-to-ship transfer at Port Hedland in Western Australia on 2 November, according …

Malaysian subsea telecommunications infrastructure provider OMS Group has secured $1.0315bn of financing to back a four-ship fibre-optic cable-laying newbuilding programme, according to a company statement. The package comprises $911.5m of …

Poland has opened its first offshore wind installation terminal, a PLN 1.2bn ($303.6m) facility at the Port of Gdansk that will begin handling the 1.5-GW Baltica 2 project in November, …

Wärtsilä has converted one engine on each of three LNG carriers operated by Chevron Transport Corporation from dual-fuel to spark-gas operation to reduce methane slip, according to a company statement. …

The Indian Navy freed Iranian fishing vessel Azini and rescued all 20 crew members after a 48-hour anti-piracy operation off northeastern Somalia, more than 3,000 km from Mumbai, according to …

Japanese shipowner Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) plans to build its fleet of environmentally friendly car carriers to about 30 vessels by fiscal 2030, according to the company’s 2026 integrated …

Container throughput at Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg stood at 698,000 TEU in the first nine months of 2026, almost unchanged from 699,000 TEU a year earlier, according to a port …

The value of global military and paramilitary shipbuilding rose by about 50% over two years to more than $122bn in 2024 and 2025, compared with $82bn in 2022 and 2023, …

A new BIMCO addendum gives shipowners and charterers a standard framework for sharing the costs and benefits of energy-saving retrofits during time charters, according to the association. BIMCO’s Documentary Committee …

Singapore-headquartered container carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) will introduce war risk surcharges on shipments involving Bulgaria, Georgia and Romania from 8 November 2026, according to a company statement. ONE issued …

A global orderbook of 1,942 alternative-fuel-capable ships is outpacing the port infrastructure needed to fuel them, according to a Lloyd’s Register statement. The ships represented 47% of global orderbook tonnage …

UAE port and logistics operator AD Ports Group has appointed Dr Afif Saif Al Yafei as group chief executive, succeeding Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, who had led the company …

Qatari shipowner Nakilat has named nine new gas carriers at three South Korean yards, including five LNG carriers tied to a 25-ship programme for QatarEnergy affiliates under long-term charters, according …

Containerships spend 46.5% of their time in port on activities outside cargo handling, leaving terminals scope to raise capacity through better planning and operations without expanding infrastructure, according to a …

Three development banks are considering up to $110m of financing for a $157m expansion of Autoport, a vehicle and general cargo terminal on Turkey’s Gulf of Izmit, according to an …

Danish liner Maersk and German carrier Hapag-Lloyd will shift their joint India-Europe Gemini service from the Cape of Good Hope route to the Red Sea and Suez Canal from 4 …

Singapore-based Asia Break Bulk has signed long-term agreements with Schoeller Holdings for four 12,600-dwt multipurpose project cargo newbuilds, according to a company statement. The Octopus-type vessels will each be equipped …

Dutch maritime technology company PortXchange is expanding its EmissionInsider platform with emissions forecasting, scenario modelling, multimodal monitoring and AI-assisted decarbonisation planning, according to a company statement. The expansion will allow …

Hanwha Defense USA has been selected as the first shipbuilder under TOTE Services’ Vessel Construction Manager contract to build a $269 million Medium Landing Ship for the US Navy and …

France’s 107-km Canal Seine-Nord Europe needs €2.23bn ($2.49bn) in additional funding to meet its planned 2032 opening, according to a French National Assembly filing. French National Rally lawmaker Matthieu Marchio, …

Chinese carrier Ningbo Ocean Shipping plans to add six containerships and four car carriers under two long-term leasing programmes as it expands capacity for mainline container services and vehicle exports, …

Dubai logistics group DP World will launch a new weekly China–Africa shipping service in late November 2026, linking Chinese export hubs with Tanzania and Mozambique, according to a company statement. …

Morocco has launched the Tanger Med 3 container terminal project, which will add 4.5m TEU of annual capacity and is due to receive its first ships in mid-2031, according to …

Dubai-based port and logistics group DP World has completed the extension of its Posorja container terminal berth in Ecuador to 800 metres, taking private investment in the latest expansion to …

India's Goa government has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Dubai-based energy and commodities group ANVI for an INR50bn ($527.5m) LPG import and storage terminal at Mormugao Port, the …

Italian shipowner Grimaldi Group has signed agreements in China covering 10 new car carrier/multipurpose ships of 10,000-11,000 CEU and ordered a tenth ferry worth €160m ($179m), pushing its wider investment …

Alfa Laval-owned StormGeo has acquired Danish port-call software provider Portchain, adding real-time berth and terminal planning data to its voyage optimisation business, according to a company statement. The deal closed …

The global newbuilding pipeline reached 10,431 ships totalling 592.3m dwt at the end of October after 453 new orders were added during the month, according to New-Ships. The database also …

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has launched a dedicated Cruise Center of Excellence in Miami to provide cruise operators with local access to its global technical network, according to a …

Armed pirates hijacked Iranian fishing vessel Azini off northeastern Somalia on 29 October with 21 Iranian crew members and two Somali security guards aboard, according to an alert from the …

Qatari shipowner Nakilat's LNG carrier Al Mayeda was hit by unidentified objects while transiting the Arabian Gulf on the evening of 30 October, according to a company statement. The Marshall …

The US Trade Representative has proposed extending the suspension of Section 301 fees on certain China-related maritime transport services for two months, through 9 January 2027, according to an agency …

Ten seafarers were rescued from the Tanzania-flagged general cargo ship AS Dream after it started sinking about 90 nautical miles west of Paphos, Cyprus, on 30 October, according to a …

Italy has kept the 143-metre Sailing Yacht A under state management in Trieste since it was frozen on 11 March 2022, according to the Italian State Property Agency. The cost …

China could launch its fourth aircraft carrier as early as 2027, with the vessel likely to become the country’s first nuclear-powered carrier, according to an updated assessment by the Center …

Greek maritime education executive Natalia Margioli has been elected president of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, becoming the first woman and the first Greek to hold the post in its …

US port operator Port Houston will conduct its own study of parts of a potential Project 12 to deepen the Houston Ship Channel while continuing to assess a container terminal …

India’s Andhra Pradesh is in talks with South Korean and Japanese shipbuilders over major coastal shipbuilding projects at Kakinada and Dugarajapatnam, according to Mint. Kona Sasidhar, secretary of Andhra Pradesh’s …

Flevoland’s provincial assembly has approved additional funding for a new maritime service port near Urk in the Netherlands, clearing the project to move towards a construction tender, according to a …

During the week of October 23–27, 2026, the cost of marine fuel at the port of Kavkaz increased. According to weekly monitoring data from the PortNews news agency, the price …

Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg has almost doubled yard capacity at Arken Intermodal Terminal after a rail-track redesign freed about 4,000 square metres of cargo-handling space, according to a port statement. …

Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has launched the third of four Pohjanmaa-class multi-purpose corvettes for the Finnish Navy at its Rauma yard on 29 October, according to a company …