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Hanwha Ocean to build LNG carrier pair for subsidiary

Hanwha Ocean revealed an order for the two LNG carriers, slated for delivery in the second half of 2027. The shipbuilder valued the contract...

HMM sees 2024 earnings & profits rise

HMM reported revenue of KRW 11,700 billion (US$8 billion), operating profit of KRW 3,513 billion (US$2.42 billion), and net profit of KRW 3,781 billion...

Zululand Energy Terminal signs agreement to operate South Africa’s first LNG Terminal

Zululand Energy Terminal, a joint venture between Vopak Terminal Durban and Transnet Pipelines (TPL), has officially signed the Terminal Operator Agreement (TOA) with Transnet...

FSL Trust posts $11m net profit in 2024

FSL Trust Management, the trustee manager of First Ship Lease Trust, reported a net profit of $9.3m (US$6.9m) and $11.2m (US$8.3m) for the second...

Union Bulk expands its office in Singapore

The Union Bulk announced that it expands its office in Singapore. “Following our organizational restructuring in the second half of 2024, we have established a...

Thessaloniki port’s Master Plan gets the green light

The long-awaited presidential decree approving the Master Plan for the port of Thessaloniki was published in the Official Gazette, opening the way for the...

Euroseas announces 2-year charter contract extension for its feeder containership, M/V EM Hydra

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

Iron ore retreats as Trump tariff threats counter potential supply disruptions

Iron ore futures erased early gains to trade lower on Tuesday as unrest from U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs outweighed concerns over weather-related...

Baltic index slips on lower capesize, panamax rates

The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell for a second straight session on...

Prokopiou Group: 110 vessels under development

George Prokopiou’s shipping group is currently developing a shipbuilding program of approximately 110 ships. The largest ever undertaken by a Greek shipping group. Prokopiou, who...

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2020 Bulkers  – Transaction update

Reference is made to the recent stock exchange announcements published by 2020 Bulkers relating to the acquisition of companies owning or having contracts for...

Stolt-Nielsen posts USD 84.4 million net profit in Q3

Stolt-Nielsen Limited reported unaudited results for the third quarter and the nine months ending August 31, 2026. The Company reported a third quarter net...

Danaos Corporation declares quarterly dividend on its common stock for the third quarter of 2026 and an extraordinary special dividend

Danaos Corporation, one of the world's largest independent owners of containerships declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.00 per share on its common stock...

2020 Bulkers – Board resolution to approve the issuance of consideration shares and private placement shares

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcements published by 2020 Bulkers Ltd. in connection with: the Company’s acquisition of AHTS AS (the “AHTS Acquisition“), the...

Capital Maritime Finance launches Greece’s first shipping IPO with exclusive listing on Euronext Athens

Capital Maritime Finance Corp. (CMF) is launching Greece’s first shipping IPO, with all of its shares to be exclusively listed on Euronext Athens. The move...

Three oil tankers hit by projectiles in Hormuz strait on Tuesday, Marisks says

Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of...

Macquarie pours more than $2 billion into Greek shipping

Macquarie, led by Marc Hari as head of shipping finance, has deployed more than...

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...

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...