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Sep 17, 2026 — The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has released its Safer Seas Digest 2025, urging shipowners and operators to review their operations against 49 recent marine casualty investigations that point to recurring, preventable hazards.
Sep 16, 2026 — Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will shift four additional Gemini Cooperation container services from the Cape of Good Hope back through the Suez Canal and Red Sea, doubling the number of strings using the corridor to six.
Sep 16, 2026 — Marine insurer The Swedish Club has warned shipowners that Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan remain a risky third-choice option, not a routine substitute, as tightening Panama Canal restrictions push some to consider longer southern routes.
Sep 15, 2026 — Huajin Aramco Petrochemical has brought online a new 300,000 dwt crude berth at Panjin Port after the first laden VLCC discharged cargo, completing the marine feedstock supply chain for one of China’s largest new refining and petrochemical complexes.
Sep 14, 2026 — Maritime unions have relaunched protected industrial action across Tasmania’s commercial ports, limiting pilot launch and vessel traffic services after a stalled pay dispute with state-owned operator TasPorts.
Sep 14, 2026 — A new temperature spike aboard the fire-damaged Ro-Ro vessel Min Jiang Kou has forced salvage crews off Panama to resume emergency cooling operations more than a month after the original engine-room blaze disabled the ship.
Sep 14, 2026 — Wreck removal crews have pulled the grounded containership MSC Baltic III about 53 meters toward shore on Newfoundland’s west coast as dismantling and steel removal operations continue.
Sep 12, 2026 — Stranded container capacity in port queues worldwide has climbed to 4.31 million TEU, exceeding the 4 million TEU high recorded during the 2022 pandemic-era supply chain crisis.
Sep 12, 2026 — A review of Greece’s port ownership structure shows Chinese, Italian and Greek private capital increasingly running key terminals alongside the Greek state, which retains ownership stakes across the network.
Sep 10, 2026 — The Dubai Tower, operated by China’s Sea Legend Shipping, has arrived at Teesport in the UK after a 25-day voyage along Russia’s Northern Sea Route, inaugurating the first regular Arctic container service between Asia and Europe.
