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Ontario Shipyards advances strategic partnership with Hanwha Ocean through visit to Geoje Shipyard
Ontario Shipyards recently visited Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje Shipyard in the Republic of Korea as part of ongoing efforts to advance strategic co-operation between the two
HTEC opens Canada’s First 700 bar commercial heavy-duty clean hydrogen station
Tsawwassen, B.C – HTEC today announced the opening of Canada’s first 700 bar commercial heavy-duty clean hydrogen refueling station, located on Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN)
Shipping industry sees many complications at reopening of Strait of Hormuz
While welcoming the signing of a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding three days ago, shipowners and industry groups underline the operational complications and security issues upon
Americold Opens Integrated Cold Chain Facility at Port Saint John
Atlanta-based Americold Realty Trust, a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, real estate and value-added services, today announced the grand opening of its import-export hub at
Port of Montreal at the heart of one of Canada’s largest energy storage projects
The Port of Montreal continues to demonstrate its ability to support large-scale strategic logistics projects across North America. In collaboration with LOGISTEC, nearly 950 Battery
Port of Trois-Rivières presents its 2025 results at Annual General Meeting
The Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA) held its Annual General Meeting today at the Marine Terminal, during which it presented highlights and its 2025 annual report.
DP World enters negotiations to develop container terminal at Port of Corpus Christi
Dubai-based DP World announced it has entered into an exclusive negotiation agreement for a long-term lease to develop and operate a container terminal at the
Hapag-Lloyd announces rate increases on shipments to North America effective July 15
German carrier Hapag-Lloyd has announced pricing adjustments on shipments to North America effective July 15. They encompass a new General Rate Increase (GRI), revised ocean tariff
Strategic Hanwha-Kanata partnership for proposed floating LNG export facility at Prince Rupert
Hanwha Ocean Co., Ltd. today announced that it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Kanata Clean Power & Climate Technologies Corp. regarding
Greater Victoria Harbour Authority appoints Jeremy Dunn as CEO
The Board of Directors of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) has appointed Jeremy Dunn as the organization’s new CEO, effective July 7, 2026. Mr. Dunn brings
Our Forum
On our Forum: New Year thoughts on supporting seafarers and… handling fanatics
By Michael Grey* It’s New Year’s Eve, when people of kindly disposition wish each other the hope that the coming twelve months might be happy,
On our Forum: Crew needs come last in revolutionary new ship shapes
By Michael Grey* In the compromise that dictates the design of a ship, you don’t have to be cynical to observe that the needs of
On our Forum: Will there be any sea left?
By Michael Grey* As the governmental delegates to Cop26, safely delivered home after their Scottish excursion, start to work out how they can deliver their
On our Forum: The real cause of the supply chain quagmires…
By Michael Grey* It is funny how different items of news mesh with each other. Cop 26 is over, thank goodness and the thousands of
On our Forum: Shipmasters deserve greatest respect for difficult decisions made in stormy conditions
By Michael Grey* In this world where virtue-signalling competes with the need to blame everyone, maybe we should not be surprised at the growing enthusiasm
On our Forum
The shipping industry needs to set ambitious targets to help prevent global climate catastrophe, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) cautions in a new position
On our Forum: Seafarers and truckers: supply chain’s most vulnerable providers
By Michael Grey* “Am I a man – or an animal?” This was a question dramatically posed by a huge Sicilian lorry driver on a
On our Forum: Stranger than fiction in a world ‘not far short of chaos’
By Michael Grey* Will what we used to think of as “normal” ever return? Black swans used to be rare, but now they are coming
The many challenges to one-man bridge operations (Forum)
By Michael Grey* The results of an inquest in the UK on the deaths caused by a tram coming off the rails gave one
Carbon recycled methane can be recognized as zero-emission ship fuel according to new study (Forum)
The “Ship Carbon Recycling Working Group (WG)” of Japan’s Carbon Capture & Reuse (CCR) Study Group has confirmed that carbon recycled methane produced by
Marine salvage expertise must not decline… (Forum)
By Michael Grey* These are tough times for the professional salvor, with concern being expressed about weak revenues and worries about capacity. To the casual
Of congestion, ships and crews
I have always been terribly enthused by Oliver St.John Gogarty’s poem The Ship and its first stanza – “A ship from Valparaiso came/ And
Justifying the unjustifiable on inhuman seafarer crisis… (forum)
By Michael Grey* Nobody should be surprised that there has been something of a fight back by ship operators after the World Maritime
Shipping’s nightmare with the Gulf of Guinea pirates (Forum)
By Michael Grey* There will be few seafarers today who sail off to the Gulf of Guinea with a light heart and cheerful demeanour,
A Captain caught after a slaughter at sea (Forum)
Taiwanese Ping Shin 101 on which occurred the murders at sea described in this gut wretching article by investigative reporter Ian Urbina*. Photo Credit: Fish-I Africa The men are helpless
Clean Shipping Alliance scrubs away at ICCT report on Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems
Following the release of a report by environmental group ICCT, the Clean Shipping Alliance expresses its concern about the wrong perception of Exhaust Gas
80% of ports do not reap the benefits of digitalization according to Innovez-One (Forum)
Innovez One, one of the world’s leading providers of port management software for the world’s busiest ports and towage operators, stated that of the
Five percent zero emission fuels by 2030 needed for Paris-aligned shipping decarbonization (Forum)
The ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030.
The Mask of Cassandra (Forum)
By Michael Grey* Nearly a year into the wretched pandemic and it is difficult to determine any real cheer amid the winter snow. Some
Provincial government investments should give priority to Made in Canada ships (FORUM)
Ottawa – The Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA) has expressed concern over provincial governments ordering vessels overseas rather than giving such business to
The Poseidon Principles Disclosure Report is good, but the disclosure could have been better (Forum)
In December 2020, the signatories of the Poseidon Principles—currently twenty large banks—released their first Annual Disclosure Report. As the first paragraph of the report says: