Shipping Industry News

At least two liquefied natural gas shipments transited the Strait of Hormuz this week as producers look for ways to increase flows to a market struggling with a lack of supply and surging prices.

US Coast Guard and FBI personnel boarded two commercial vessels bound for the United States in the Gulf of Mexico last month after indications that hackers had broken into their computer networks, the agencies said on Thursday.

International shipping is being asked to decarbonise before it knows what it will burn.

The U.S. Coast Guard’s decision to end icebreaker Healy’s planned high-latitude mission has left the service leaning more heavily on its newest icebreaker during an increasingly active Arctic season. Healy has remained...

The head of the International Maritime Organization is calling on governments to stop attacks on merchant shipping as conflicts increasingly spill into some of the world’s most important trade routes....

The US’s busiest container port for global trade foiled more than 120 million cyberattack attempts in August, posing a persistent threat to its operations as it grapples with shifting tariff policies.

Foreign-flagged tankers moved more than $40 million worth of petroleum products between U.S. ports without appearing in the federal government’s public Jones Act waiver reports, according to a Bloomberg Government...

China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen's Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed group's military blitz in the past week, according to three Iranian sources familiar with the matter.

Oil extended a decline on signs that supply disruptions in the Middle East are set to ease, with Saudi Arabia seeking to partially restore flows along a vital pipeline.

Two U.S.-sanctioned heavy-lift vessels are carrying critical power-generation modules from China toward Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project, according to satellite imagery and vessel-tracking data. The shipment is the latest sign that supply chains supporting the sanctioned liquefied natural gas project remain operational despite Western efforts to disrupt them.

The Dali bridge collapse, the implosion of the Titan submersible and the deadly fire aboard the Grande Costa D’Avorio are among 49 marine casualties highlighted in the National Transportation Safety Board’s latest review of accidents...

US government agencies are tracking cyber threats against nearly 20 shipping vessels around the world, according to US officials familiar with the situation.