Recent articles
Subscription
Online magazine
Categories
Categories

Launching of Ocean Edge maritime innovation platform
Dubai – Ocean Edge, a trailblazing maritime global open innovation platform, announced its launch at the COP28 in Dubai. Founding partners Novarium of Rimouski,

Port of Montreal, Oceanex and QSL form green shipping corridor
At a side event to COP28 currently underway in Dubai, the Montreal Port Authority (MPA), Oceanex and QSL today announced their collaboration to create the first domestic

Canada announces creation of Green Shipping Corridor Program
Halifax – The Minister of Transport, the Honorable Pablo Rodriguez, today announced the creation of the Green Shipping Corridor Program, an investment of $165.4 million, and

Peter Xotta assumes helm of Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s board of directors announced that it has appointed Peter Xotta as president and chief executive officer, effective Monday, December 4, 2023. He succeeds

Shipping CEOs join forces to accelerate the decarbonization of global maritime transport
Dubai – The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of five leading global shipping lines have issued a joint declaration at COP 28 calling for an end

Canada re-elected to IMO Council
LONDON – Canada was re-elected today to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council in Category B—states with the largest interest in international seaborne trade— for

Xenata foresees ‘brutal’ ocean shipping market in 2024
The warning signs were already there, but the latest data from Oslo’s Xeneta market intelligence platform suggests 2024 could be even more brutal than

Stellar cruise season at Port of Québec
The Port of Québec has reported a banner 2023 cruise season, welcoming over 154,000 cruise passengers. Twenty-eight cruise lines and 41 different ships, 11 of

Julie Gascon appointed President and CEO of Montreal Port Authority
The Montreal Port Authority (MPA) has announced the appointment of Julie Gascon as President and CEO. With her proven track record in the marine industry, Ms. Julie

Le Hub Multimodal de Thorold remporte le prix Brownie
Le Hub Multimodal de Thorold, une collaboration entre le Groupe BMI et les Ports HOPA, a reçu le prix Brownie 2023 du Réseau canadien des
Our Forum

On our Forum: Questions aplenty about ship fuel problems and ‘green’ solutions
By Michael Grey* You would be, to say the least, extremely angry, if your car came to a grinding halt and the nice person

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
