False flag operations continue to pop up and jump from country to country as quickly as nations can issue warnings of the situation. The latest warning sent to the International Maritime Organization at the end of July came from the…
For the second time in a week, Somali pirates have apparently struck, and this time they have taken control of a sanctioned product tanker with a shadowy record linked in part to Iran.
For the second time this month, a cargo vessel navigating on the busy Ghent-Terneuzen canal veered out of the navigation channel and struck the mud embankment.
Dutch firm Conoship International is pushing to expand the scope of its short-sea shipping offering. After having pioneered a series of standardized vessel designs, it is now launching a design for a general cargo ship that will be fully propelled…
The Net-Zero Framework (NZF), currently under consideration at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), is an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aiming for net-zero emissions in the maritime sector by the year 2050.
(Article originally published in July/Aug 2026 edition.) It's been a long, hot summer with record temperatures in Europe and the U.S., on-and-off-again hostilities in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Dog days of summer?
