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An unspecified “software issue” was being blamed for the unusual move of suspending all cargo operations at the Port of Charleston as well as South Carolina inland ports on Monday, May 20. The South Carolina State Ports Authority said that it is working with an outside vendor to restore operations as quickly as possible.

Romanian authorities have a search and rescue mission underway on Saturday, May 18, after a small, Turkish-owned general cargo ship sunk off the northern coast near the border with Ukraine. Three crewmembers, Syrian nationals, are reported missing while eight were rescued by another Turkish cargo ship that was in the area.

Hungarian police are continuing to scour the Danube near Budapest after a river cruise ship and a small pleasure boat apparently collided overnight. They recovered two bodies from the river and are looking for five people who are reported missing while also interviewing the sole survivor.

The global production of energy has taken a new twist: It has to be cleaner. Reducing carbon emissions and reaching “net zero” targets are terms becoming commonplace in the energy industry’s vocabulary.

Canadian officials are again preparing for a potential strike that would impact DP World Canada’s West Coast operation, including the second-largest Vancouver container terminal, while holding out hope for a new round of federal mediation.

In a hearing of the House Transportation Committee on Thursday, Congressman Brandon Williams (R-NY) pressed the National Transportation Safety Board to tear down and examine every component of the boxship Dali's electrical switchboards for signs of malicious code.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force is mourning the loss of one of their captains who died today during a fire aboard a Chinese-flagged product tanker in the port’s anchorage. According to the report, the captain was a specialized trained marine firefighter with two years in the role and six years experience with the fire force.

Two of the larger offshore wind farms planned for the U.S. East Coast have each gotten underway with their offshore installation. Coming just months after the commissioning of the first commercial-scale U.S. offshore wind farm it is the latest demonstration of the building momentum in the sector after the challenges in 2023.

Two of Stena Line’s fast RoRos operating between Southland and Northern Ireland have been selected for the company’s planned methanol conversion program. It was reported nearly a year ago that the company was working with Wartsila on the planned conversion of ferries following in the footsteps of its pioneering conversion project in 2015.

Harland & Wolff Group, the continuation of the storied 160-plus-year-old Northern Ireland shipbuilder, is adamantly denying reports in the British media that the government is poised to reject loan guarantees critical to the future of the operations.

The NTSB has released its initial factfinding report on the allision of the boxship Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. While the agency has not drawn any conclusions yet about causal factors, the summary contains previously unreleased information about the two brief losses of electrical power and the loss of propulsion that preceded the accident.

Contained within Australia’s massive $764.6 billion (US$506 billion) decade-long defense budget for 2024-2025 is this first allocation for the creation of the Australian Strategic Fleet. One of the promises made by now Prime Minister Antony Albanese was the revitalization of the domestic merchant fleet to support Australian commence and serve defense needs.

The UK government detailed an ambitious plan to expand the Royal Navy highlighting that it calls for up to 28 new vessels including those in planning and under construction. In the latest move, the government announced plans for up to six new amphibious warships for the Royal Marines while also deferring the retirement of two vessels.

As the Red Sea security crisis and the Houthi efforts pass the 150-day mark, the EU security operation issued a new advisory to ships telling them to steer further to sea and take other evasive actions.

India's government has inked a 10-year agreement to build out and operate the port of Chabahar, Iran. The seaport has strategic and commercial appeal to New Delhi, both as a gateway to the Iranian market and as a terminus for  trade with Central Asia.

International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) announced plans to build a large new international container terminal in the southern Philippines that can become a key international gateway and drive regional economic growth.

As part of its ongoing examination of the UK’s interests in Antarctica, the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) last week held a special session on Russian oil exploration in the polar region.

In a bid to curb the rampant IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing along its coastline, the new Senegalese government has initiated a raft of measures to protect its marine resources. This started last week with the publication of the list of vessels authorized to fish in Senegal’s national waters.

Western analysts risk overestimating China’s emergence as an Arctic power, spurred by fears that they initially neglected the reappearance of the Arctic as a theatre for strategic competition. Contrary to such alarmist views, Beijing is in fact far more constrained in the region.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the blaze aboard the factory trawler Kodiak Enterprise, which was declared a total loss after catching fire at the pier in Tacoma last year.