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  Mediterranean Shipping Company has taken delivery from China’s Yangzi Shifu Shipbuilding of what is today the world’s largest containership, the MSC Irina, with a capacity of 24,346 TEUs. On the same day, MSC also received the MSC Tessa, which also has a capacity of more than 24,000 containers. Until now, the world’s biggest containership

  The Suez Canal today reported a record for the number of transits through the international waterway, with 107 vessels passing through in either direction. This represented a 15% increase from a month ago. The Suez Canal Authority was 7.3 million tons transited the canal, with 56 southbound vessels carrying 7.3 million tons and 51

  The northernmost heavy-cargo port on the Great Lakes, Red Rock, is being developed in partnership with the BMI Group and the Red Rock Indian Band following the signature of a memorandum of understanding. Red Rock is about 110 km northeast of Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. Once a busy timber and mill town, Red Rock is

  According to a new study published on the plos.org research platform, the world’s oceans contain an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles which if assembled would weigh about 2.3 million tons. As well as the environmental disaster, there is the huge harm caused to marine life. International scientists examined data collected between 1979 and 2019

  Maersk announced this week it has resumed a weekly service with container-on-barge shipments from the port of Constanta in Romania to Reni in southwest Ukraine. Its ships stopped calling at Ukraine ports last February due to Russia’s invasion of the country.  The service runs across two routes – via the Constanta/Danube Channel and the

  HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Vancouver-based Seaspan ULC, has celebrated the official naming and blessing of its tug boat fleet – which includes the world’s first fully electric harbour tug boats, along with dual fuel (LNG and Diesel) escort tug boats. Once delivered, the green fleet will provide ship-assist

  The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA has issued a statement rejecting  recent media reports that giant cranes sourced from China at U.S.  ports pose a national security threat. “There have been no known security breaches as the result of any cranes at U.S. ports, despite alarmist media reports,” the AAPA said. “Further, modern

  Høvik, Norway – The collaboration between ocean industries will need to intensify for the rapid buildout of offshore wind and aquaculture to coexist sustainably with other industries and the ecosystem. According to DNV’s Spatial Competition Forecast, the amount of ocean space occupied by installations will grow 5-fold by 2050. This will be driven by