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Container equipment prices have peaked and are expected to moderate

Prices of dry freight shipping containers have doubled over the past year to reach historic highs but will moderate over the next few years,...

SFL Acquires Two Containerships; Sells Feeders to MSC

SFL Corporation is set to acquire two secondhand 14,000 TEU containerships, built in 2013 and 2014. Both vessels are chartered to a leading container...

Euroseas Announces New Charter for M/V “EM Spetses”

Euroseas, an owner and operator of container vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for containerized cargoes, announced a new time charter contract for its...

Tsakos sells feeder containership – brokers

Tsakos Shipping & Trading has reportedly sold feeder containership Sphene (3.398 TEU / blt 2007) at the price of USD 39 million. Sources suggest the...

Shipping lines announce hefty trans-Pacific surcharges

Shipping companies operating on trans-Pacific eastbound trade lanes have announced rate increases for August at unprecedented increments, often using new terminology to describe the...

Cosco Shipping Orders 10 Containerships for USD 1.5 Billion

Cosco Shipping Holdings Co. Ltd. has placed a $1.5 billion order for 10 large containerships. The ships will be built at affiliated shipyard, Cosco Shipping...

Container Rates to U.S. Top $10,000 as Shipping Crunch Tightens

Container shipping rates from Asia to the U.S. and Europe increased to new record levels over the past week, ensuring transportation costs will stay...

Danaos: Acquisition of Six 5,466 TEU Eco-design Wide Beam Container Vessels

Danaos announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire six 5,466 TEU container vessels built at Hanjin Subic Bay shipyard en bloc...

Hapag-Lloyd acquires container shipping company Nile Dutch

Hapag-Lloyd successfully closed the acquisition of the Dutch container shipping company Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch). After signing a sales and purchase agreement in...

OOIL: Major revenue and TEU traffic increase

Orient Overseas International Line (OOIL) saw its revenues and volumes increase by 119% and 15.4% respectively in Q2 2021. In latest financial results, the company...

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Carnival Corporation outperforms guidance, delivering best ever revenues, net yields and net income

Carnival Corporation announced financial results for the third quarter 2026 and provided an updated outlook. All-time high net income1 of $1.9 billion with adjusted net...

Hafnia Limited: Acquisition of an additional 1.7 million TORM shares

Hafnia Limited has agreed to acquire 1,700,000 A shares in TORM plc at a price per share of USD 34.00, representing 1.66% of the...

2020 Bulkers – Contemplated private placement

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement made by 2020 Bulkers Ltd on 16 September 2026, where the Company announced a letter of...

MSC said in talks to buy German state-held Meyer Werft stake

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. is in talks to acquire the roughly 80% stake in German cruise-ship builder Meyer Werft GmbH held by the federal...

Greek shipping industry turns to Euronext Athens

The Greek shipping community is turning its attention to Euronext Athens. Safe Bulkers, owned by Polys V. Hajioannou, made the first move. The company pursued...

Eastern Pacific Shipping and SUARDIAZ Group strengthen longstanding partnership with delivery of MV RS...

Eastern Pacific Shipping announced the delivery of MV RS Atlantico, marking a significant milestone...

Seanergy participates in Marine Money Week Asia

Seanergy Maritime Holdings President and CEO Stamatis Tsantanis took part in the 25th Marine...

EU’s Kallas says two countries may send ships to counter Houthis

Two countries signaled interest in sending ships to counter Houthi strikes in the Red...

Qatar-linked LNG traffic through Hormuz strait picks up despite conflict

More QatarEnergy-linked liquefied natural gas vessels, laden and in ballast, have transited the Strait...

Panama Canal announces increase in draft and daily transit

The Panama Canal announced, through an Advisory to Shipping, that it will increase to...

PPA S.A. shows resilience; €106.7 million in investments

Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA S.A.) announced its financial results for the first half of 2026, highlighting resilient revenue performance and a smaller year-on-year...

A.P. Moller Capital to buy majority stake in ports operator Euroports

A.P. Moller Capital, the infrastructure investment arm ​of Denmark's A.P. Moller Group, ‌said on Monday it had agreed to acquire a majority ​stake in...

Thessaloniki Port Authority: Revenue up 8.9% to €58m in H1 ’26

Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA S.A.), a member of the Core Network of the Trans-European Transport Network and a port of international significance, announced...

Piraeus Chamber of Commerce: More value created by shipping to flow into the city’s economy

Piraeus is not only home to Greece’s largest port, but also the historic heart of Greek shipping and one of the world’s major maritime...

Piraeus container traffic soars 18% in August

Container throughput at the port of Piraeus remained strong in August, with a significant improvement recorded at Terminals II and III as the global...