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Russia is likely in the early stages of assembling a new "dark fleet" of LNG carriers in order to sanction-proof its liquefied natural gas exports, according to Oystein Kalleklev, CEO of Norwegian shipping company Flex LNG.

The Chinese government is taking a step up with its attempt to control the western Philippine exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Last week, Beijing announced that the China Coast Guard would be empowered to arrest and hold anyone who tries to enter Chinese-claimed waters for up to 60 days, without trial.

The Black Sea container market has undergone significant disruption, with Ukraine at the forefront of these changes. Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine boasted the highest container volumes among Black Sea countries, with an estimated turnover of over 1 million TEU per year according to local analytical company Informall BG.

Two foreign companies that own and operate a product tanker have been slapped with a $2 million fine after pleading guilty to deliberately dumping oily waste in ocean waters near New Orleans, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

On Monday, the tanker Dubai Angel arrived at the Westridge Marine Terminal in Vancouver, B.C., the seaward terminus of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX). The Dubai Angel is scheduled to load the first 550,000-barrel cargo of Albertan tar sands crude from the TMX, marking the beginning of a new chapter for Canadian producers. 

The Port of Brunswick, Georgia, which had the largest autoport by space in the U.S., achieved its largest month ever in April. While the port was aiding with the diversion from Baltimore, they also highlighted the strong growth in the U.S. auto market and efforts by manufacturers to increase inventory as the sector continues to recover from the pandemic.

A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is out examining the causes of a pollution incident and loss of propulsion on a Matson containership while it was sailing along the Pacific coast in 2022 requiring the vessel to be towed to port.

Aqualectra and Wärtsilä have taken a significant step towards a sustainable energy future for Curaçao by the signing of a Battery Energy Storage System Agreement. As a part of Aqualectra’s ongoing efforts to continue improving its services and better serve the people of Curaçao, this agreement aims to fully revolutionize energy management in Curaçao by 2030, ensuring reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy for the island.

Tanker and ATB operator Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), which is focused on the U.S. Jones Act tanker business, has agreed to be acquired by the private-owned Saltchuk Resources, which continues to build a diversified holding in marine and freight transport.

An unspecified “software issue” was being blamed for the unusual move of suspending all cargo operations at the Port of Charleston as well as South Carolina inland ports on Monday, May 20. The South Carolina State Ports Authority said that it is working with an outside vendor to restore operations as quickly as possible.

Romanian authorities have a search and rescue mission underway on Saturday, May 18, after a small, Turkish-owned general cargo ship sunk off the northern coast near the border with Ukraine. Three crewmembers, Syrian nationals, are reported missing while eight were rescued by another Turkish cargo ship that was in the area.

Hungarian police are continuing to scour the Danube near Budapest after a river cruise ship and a small pleasure boat apparently collided overnight. They recovered two bodies from the river and are looking for five people who are reported missing while also interviewing the sole survivor.

The global production of energy has taken a new twist: It has to be cleaner. Reducing carbon emissions and reaching “net zero” targets are terms becoming commonplace in the energy industry’s vocabulary.

Canadian officials are again preparing for a potential strike that would impact DP World Canada’s West Coast operation, including the second-largest Vancouver container terminal, while holding out hope for a new round of federal mediation.

In a hearing of the House Transportation Committee on Thursday, Congressman Brandon Williams (R-NY) pressed the National Transportation Safety Board to tear down and examine every component of the boxship Dali's electrical switchboards for signs of malicious code.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force is mourning the loss of one of their captains who died today during a fire aboard a Chinese-flagged product tanker in the port’s anchorage. According to the report, the captain was a specialized trained marine firefighter with two years in the role and six years experience with the fire force.

Two of the larger offshore wind farms planned for the U.S. East Coast have each gotten underway with their offshore installation. Coming just months after the commissioning of the first commercial-scale U.S. offshore wind farm it is the latest demonstration of the building momentum in the sector after the challenges in 2023.

Two of Stena Line’s fast RoRos operating between Southland and Northern Ireland have been selected for the company’s planned methanol conversion program. It was reported nearly a year ago that the company was working with Wartsila on the planned conversion of ferries following in the footsteps of its pioneering conversion project in 2015.

Harland & Wolff Group, the continuation of the storied 160-plus-year-old Northern Ireland shipbuilder, is adamantly denying reports in the British media that the government is poised to reject loan guarantees critical to the future of the operations.

The NTSB has released its initial factfinding report on the allision of the boxship Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. While the agency has not drawn any conclusions yet about causal factors, the summary contains previously unreleased information about the two brief losses of electrical power and the loss of propulsion that preceded the accident.