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Fastfrate completes acquisition of Omnitrans
Fastfrate Group has officially completed its acquisition of Omnitrans Inc. following Competition Bureau Canada approval. The acquisition represents a significant expansion of Fastfrate Group’s service

BIMCO contests President Trump claim that Strait of Hormuz is fully open
Jakob Larsen, BIMCO Chief Safety & Security Officer, today described as “inaccurate” the announcement from 17 April at around 1400 GMT by US President Donald

Six-week rally of container spot rates runs out of steam
The Drewry World Container Index (WCI) recently snapped a six-week rally—a surge initially triggered by higher bunker fuel prices following the late-February conflict in the

S&P Global Ratings revises Montreal Port Authority outlook to stable from negative
Toronto – S&P Global Ratings announced it has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed its ‘AA’ long-term issuer credit and senior unsecured

Étienne Mignault-Proulx appointed Port of Montreal Senior Director of Maritime Operations and Harbour Master
The Montreal Port Authority (MPA) announces the appointment of Étienne Mignault-Proulx as Senior Director of Maritime Operations and Harbour Master. He assumed his duties on

All Aboard Alliance launches project to tackle sexual misconduct at sea
Copenhagen – The All-Aboard Alliance, a community of maritime companies committed to improving lives at sea, has launched a project to develop a global framework for

BCMEA underlines role of stability for “measured growth” of West Coast ports
The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) released its Annual Report, highlighting how stability at Canada’s West Coast Ports benefits workers, business and the Canadian economy.

AtkinsRéalis and Hanwha Ocean sign Memorandum of Understanding
Montreal – AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world, and Hanwha Ocean, a global shipbuilding and submarine manufacturer, have

IMF sees abrupt darkening of global economic outlook due to Middle East war
The International Monetary Fund has trimmed its forecast for global economic growth this year, and has warned that a prolonged Middle East conflict could fuel

Global seaborne crude oil shipments plunge 16% since outset of Iran war
Since the beginning of the Iran war, global seaborne crude oil shipments have fallen 16% compared to the first nine weeks of 2026, according to
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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:

World Shipping Council pleads for more collaboration to mitigate Covid-19 challenges (Forum)
Ocean carriers are taking all available measures to improve the speed and efficiency of cargo movement including employing all available vessel tonnage says the World

The ongoing seafarer crisis: do charterers have hearts? (FORUM)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world shipping journalism, Michael Grey* offers in our FORUM section, another impassioned commentary and an urgent suggestion for

Tailwinds of 2020 (Forum)
Shipping has faced some historically significant challenges this year, we opened the year with IMO 2020, the greatest change in fuel regulation in this

Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale (Forum)
by Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Adam Roark, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Michele Sancricca, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Almir Zerem, RISE,

Melting sea ice makes Canada more, not less dependent on Icebreakers (Forum)
Climate change leads to more sea ice and higher risks for commercial marine shipping For more than ten months of the year, Canada’s Arctic is

New technology may weaken seafarers’ professional judgment (Forum)
By Guro Kulset Merakerås A good sailor has traditionally been a person who makes decisions that ensure that their ship, cargo and crew are
