Find out the inside facts on bulk cargo, tanker, and container operations. Whether it's a vessel movement, trade rates, or logistics updates, we talk about how business shipping keeps goods moving around the world and how it impacts costs and schedules.
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FeaturedPanama is throttling daily transits again as Gatún Lake runs low, forcing owners to choose between paying up at auction, sitting in the anchorage, or steaming an extra fortnight round the Cape. The shortfall reopens every cost line the 2023 crunch exposed.
Kemal Can Kayar|1 min read|Aug 21, 2026
Iran is moving to turn the Strait of Hormuz from a waterway into a screening desk: a draft bill that would make passage conditional on a vessel's politics, and whose real weapon is the elastic word 'linked'.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Aug 9, 2026
Traffic is creeping back through the Strait of Hormuz, with at least two operators moving oil close to pre-escalation volumes and tankers transferring cargoes ship-to-ship off Oman to limit their time in the strait. It is a fragile normal, enough to fix cargoes but not enough to stop pricing in the danger.
Kemal Can Kayar|1 min read|Aug 1, 2026
When a tanker reroutes around the Strait of Hormuz, the industry counts the sea miles and the war-risk premium but rarely the money moving underneath the voyage. A rerouting that looks like a $200,000 cost on paper can quietly become $220,000 once the currency exposure buried in local port bills is counted.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Jul 28, 2026
ADNOC Logistics and Services ordered four 175,000 cbm LNG carriers at Jiangnan Shipyard for about $900 million, taking its LNG newbuilding program to 18 ships and deepening China's push into a segment Korea long dominated.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Jul 11, 2026
The IMO paused its two-corridor evacuation of about 11,000 seafarers stranded on some 600 ships in the Gulf on June 25, after a suspected drone struck the container ship Ever Lovely off Oman.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Jun 26, 2026
Rio Tinto has sold six of its eight newcastlemax bulkers, the latest two to Mercuria, while Fortescue chartered up to twelve ammonia-capable newcastlemaxes from CMB.TECH, opposite fleet bets made in the same June week.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Jun 23, 2026
Guinea's Morebaya port shipped 2.2 million tonnes of Simandou iron ore in May, and with the route to China roughly double the Pilbara distance, every cargo absorbs about twice the Capesize vessel-days.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Jun 8, 2026
The Pakistan-brokered ceasefire fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with tolls above $1 million and hundreds of tankers still trapped, and President Trump orders a naval blockade of Iranian ports after talks collapse in Islamabad.
Kemal Can Kayar|4 min read|Apr 12, 2026
Hapag-Lloyd agrees to acquire Israel's ZIM for $35.00 per share in cash, a $4.2 billion equity value, with FIMI carving out a new Israeli carrier holding the ZIM brand and golden share.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Feb 16, 2026
BDI nears highest level since 2024 The Baltic Exchange dry bulk sea freight index has climbed to about 2,275 points, the highest since March 2024 and around seven percent higher on the week, according to Refinitiv data reported by Reuters.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Nov 22, 2025
Atlantic liquefied natural gas (LNG) charter rates have jumped to multi-year highs as a shortage of available carriers collides with rising exports, tightening shipping capacity, and lifting gas costs.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Nov 22, 2025