Aug 31 (Reuters) – Tugs are expected to begin towing a damaged Greek oil tanker on Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi Foreign Minister Jamel Amer said, as the vessel remains adrift and on fire…
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TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Japan lodged a protest with China after one of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters on Saturday, the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese…
https://gcaptain.com/japan-protests-second-territorial-incursion-by-china-in-under-a-week/
MSC Marie container ship crossed the Panama Canal and made a new record.
It became the biggest capacity Neopanamax to transit the strategic waterway, overtaking the earlier record holder, Evergreen’s Ever Max which made this record during its inaugural journey in August 2023.
MSC Marie is 366 m long, and 51 m wide and has a maximum carrying capacity of 17, 640 TEUs.
MSC Marie came from Port of Manzanillo, Mexico. Its transit shows the canal’s capacity to...
COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry and COSCO Shipping Container Lines will build twelve 14,000 TEU container ships having dual-fuel methanol propulsion, per the contract signed between them.
The ships will be a part of a new generation of ship types. They will be jointly developed by COSCO Shipping Lines, COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry, and China Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Design and Research Institute.
The new ships will be 335.9 m long, and 51 m wide and...
By Mohammed Omar Ahmed Aug 31, 2024 (Bloomberg) –Djibouti’s government plans to offer Ethiopia exclusive access to a new port to defuse tensions sparked by the landlocked nation’s ambitions to have…
https://gcaptain.com/djibouti-planning-to-offer-ethiopia-port-access-to-ease-tensions/