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The World Shipping Council (WSC) has released the third edition of the WSC Whale Chart, a global voyage planning aid that maps where slower ship speeds and route changes can help protect whales from ship strikes and reduce underwater noise. The WSC Whale Chart brings together all known mandatory and voluntary ship-strike and underwater noise reduction […]

By Leo Ryan. Editor The trade infrastructure strategy component of the federal budget submitted to Parliament by the Carney government contains several items that address certain urgent wishes expressed by maritime industry stakeholders in the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway. In this connection, the budget document notes: “As part of additional resources for Canada Border Services

On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Assises de l’Économie de la Mer, Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, announced the entry into the fleet and registration under the French flag (French International Register – RIF) of ten Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) dual-fuel vessels, each with a

Estimated transborder freight between the U.S., Canada and Mexico by all modes in August 2025 totalled $133.4 billion, representing a 2.5% decline from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics TransBorder Freight Data of the US Department of Transportation.  The statistics in this release do not reflect changes in inflation or tonnage

The latest Seafarers Happiness Index (SHI) from The Mission to Seafarers reveals a significant downturn in seafarer wellbeing, raising concerns about worsening working and living conditions at sea after a period of encouraging improvement earlier this year. The average happiness level among seafarers fell to 7.05 out of 10 in the third quarter of 2025,

This autumn 2025 edition has much content of interest to Canadian shippers, transportation providers, ports and terminal operators amidst the continuing complexity of geopolitical conflicts and the ripple effect on global trade flows of President Trump’s tariff warfare on many nations. Of special topicality is our annual feature on Canada-North Atlantic Trade as the Carney

Cargo volume on the St. Lawrence Seaway totaled 24,030,000 metric tons in the 2025 navigation season to end-September, representing a 1.2% increase from the corresponding period in 2024, according to statistics released by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC). A sharp drop of nearly 30% in general cargo to 1.5 million tons appeared to

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Cruise the Great Lakes, the region’s cruise marketing program, announced its forecast for the 2026 cruising season at a press conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The 2026 season continues the long-term growth of Great Lakes cruising, delivering more than 23,000 passengers, over 800 port visits, and a record-breaking $300 million (US)

As part of a broad trade truce between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China have agreed to suspend tit-for-tat port fees on each other’s vessels for one year. It marks a major pause in the Trump administration’s efforts to counter China’s maritime industry dominance and boost US shipbuilding capacity. Following talks

In light of recent developments, the Tripartite participating organisations reaffirmed their support to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as the global regulator for international shipping, capable of delivering effective regulations in close collaboration with the maritime community. The Tripartite Forum of shipbuilders, shipowners and classification societies convened for their annual conference in Busan, South Korea,