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The Panama Canal Authority is raising the maximum authorized draft for Neopanamax locks to 49 feet and adding a daily transit slot after rainfall eased months of drought-driven restrictions.
DP World and Ogun State signed agreements in Paris for a $7 billion deep-sea port and special economic zone designed to ease congestion at Nigeria’s Lagos port corridor.
Piraeus Port Authority posted a 24.4% net profit decline for the first half of 2026 as mandatory infrastructure works at Pier I temporarily constrained container storage capacity, even as the company accelerated its investment programme.
Dr. N. Reuben Paul, Chairman of India’s Merchant Navy Welfare Board, met the Indian Ambassador in Athens to discuss crew-change difficulties affecting Greek shipowners and proposals for new seafarer welfare centres in Greek ports.
Sea-Intelligence analysis shows 8.5% of the global containership fleet is currently tied up by delays at Asian ports, with recovery to normal conditions likely to take seven to ten months.
India’s Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has classified Deendayal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Paradip and Mundra as the country’s first ‘mega ports’ under the new Indian Ports Act 2025.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has begun dredging works in Burrard Inlet’s Second Narrows channel to let Aframax tankers calling at the Trans Mountain terminal load closer to full capacity.
The Liberian-flagged Capesize bulk carrier Cape Falcon remains stuck on the seabed off Australia’s Port of Gladstone after two salvage operations failed to refloat the 182,066-dwt vessel.
Singapore’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre coordinated the successful rescue of all 25 crew members from the container ship MSC Hermes III after they abandoned the vessel in a lifeboat off Vietnam.
Piraeus-based tanker owner Kyklades Maritime Corporation has partnered with ShipMoney to introduce digital wage access for roughly 500 seafarers across 18 vessels.
