20 OCT 2025 Faced with increasing financial pressures and a competitive workplace, a growing number of seafarers are exaggerating their work experience or downright falsifying their resumes to secure jobs on tankers, warns international crewing service provider Danica. The group is calling for closer collaboration between authorities, training centers, and …
Read More »SHIPOWNERS TAKE STEPS TO AVOID U.S. AND CHINESE PORT FEES
19 OCT 2025 Shipowners are starting to reveal some of the steps that are being taken to avoid the port fees instituted by the U.S. and China this week, targeting ships built, owned, or operated by companies in the respective countries. The steps come as the industry also flagged the …
Read More »AFTER YEARS IN THE DARK, IRAN’S TANKERS SWITCH AIS TRANSPONDERS BACK ON
19 OCT 2025 For reasons not yet apparent, Iranian flagged tankers have turned their AIS transmitters back on. For the past seven years, since 2018 when the United States re-imposed sanctions, most Iranian-flagged tankers have travelled the seas with their AIS transmitters turned off in a bid to disguise sanctions-breaking traffic. …
Read More »IRANIAN OIL EXPORTS TO CHINA COME UNDER RENEWED PRESSURE
18 OCT 2025 Iranian oil exports to China, which over the previous three months averaged 1.52m bpd, fell to 1.4m bpd in September. From January to August, the average monthly figure was 1.45m bpd, so the figure for September shows a fall below this average, and Vortexa estimate that the …
Read More »US THREATENS VISA RESTRICTIONS, SANCTIONS AGAINST UN MEMBERS THAT BACK IMO EMISSIONS PLAN
18 OCT 2025 The United States on Friday (10th Oct 2025) threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping. U.N. member nations are scheduled to …
Read More »BEST MEDICINE FOR JOINT PAIN ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK, EXPERT SAYS
17 OCT 2025 Stiff knees, aching hips and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older. But while osteoarthritis is the world’s most common joint disease, experts say the way we treat and prevent it is badly out of step with …
Read More »INCLUSION REMAINS AT THE HEART OF POWERING SHIPPING‘S FUTURE
17 OCT 2025 Shipping has always been a diverse industry – across cultures and ethnicities – and inclusion is crucial in facing the challenges of decarbonisation, writes WISTA International President, Elpi Petraki For some, division and divisiveness seem to have become a strategic position but, as an industry that brings …
Read More »INCLUSION REMAINS AT THE HEART OF POWERING SHIPPING‘S FUTURE
17 OCT 2025 Shipping has always been a diverse industry – across cultures and ethnicities – and inclusion is crucial in facing the challenges of decarbonisation, writes WISTA International President, Elpi Petraki For some, division and divisiveness seem to have become a strategic position but, as an industry that brings …
Read More »ARE CRACKS APPEARING IN THE EU CONSENSUS ON IMO’S NZF?
16 OCT 2025 EU support has been critical in International Maritime Organization’s net zero ambitions but cracks could be appearing in its rock-solid stance. The EU presents a united face at the IMO, but the façade may be dropping as the reality of the Net Zero Framework draws closer and …
Read More »CONTAINER RATES HIT 9-MONTH LOW AS GOLDEN WEEK SLOWS TRADE, CEASEFIRE LIFTS RED SEA OUTLOOK
15 OCT 2025 Container spot freight rates saw another week of moderate decline on the main east-west routes amid subdued trading activity due to the Golden Week holiday, but workers were beginning to return to their jobs yesterday. Nonetheless, pricing continued to fall, with the composite rate on Drewry’s World …
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