• August 20 2025
  The Big Read

  The Iranian connection: how China is importing oil from Russia

  Networks of brokers and shipowners from Panama to Switzerland are becoming expert at circumventing international sanctions

  
• August 11 2025
  Finland

  Finland charges captain of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ ship over cable cutting

  Helsinki first among Nato capitals to prosecute officers of vessel suspected of Baltic Sea sabotage

  
• August 11 2025
  Industrials

  Shipbuilder Fincantieri sues US supplier over faulty fire panels

  Company allegedly sold ‘fraudulently represented’ and ‘unsafe’ products to Italian group causing over $100mn in damages

  
• August 8 2025
  China’s Cosco seeks at least 20% as Beijing reshapes $23bn Panama ports deal

  State-owned shipping group has leverage over BlackRock and MSC as Beijing tries to rewrite terms of sale

  
• August 7 2025
  Container shipping

  Maersk brushes off US tariffs to lift outlook

  Container shipping boss says ‘weakness in the US’ balanced by strength elsewhere

  
• August 6 2025
  News in-depth

  Captain of convenience: how one man left a global trail of false flags

  Authorities have repeatedly targeted a mysterious figure who set up shipping registries in far-flung countries

  
• August 3 2025
  Rail

  US rail customers urge regulators to block Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern deal

  Freight groups warn the $250bn megamerger could raise prices and cut services

  
• July 11 2025
  Insurance

  Cargo ship sunk by Houthi militants faces losses after sailing uninsured

  US-based Travelers did not extend war risk cover to Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C before fatal Red Sea passage

  
• July 10 2025
  Houthi movement

  US accuses Houthis of ‘kidnapping’ crew members from sunk vessel

  Yemeni rebels have scaled up assaults on commercial shipping this week

  
• July 10 2025
  Carmakers and shipowners say Trump’s port fees will hurt US consumers

  Companies including Ford warn that steep levies for car carriers will prove counter-productive

  
• July 9 2025
  Red Sea ship insurance prices jump as Houthis resume attacks

  Sunday’s assault by the group was the first since December, prompting concerns about an escalation

  
• July 8 2025
  UK challenges more than 40 ‘shadow fleet’ ships a month in English Channel

  High number of checks highlights new European efforts to squeeze Russian exports

  
• July 8 2025
  Transport

  Europe’s biggest port readies for potential war with Russia

  Rotterdam has started reserving space for Nato supply ships and planning military exercises

  
• July 7 2025
  Yemen

  Israel strikes Yemeni ports soon after Houthi attack on Red Sea vessel

  Intense assault on Magic Seas is the first by rebel group since December

  
• July 7 2025
  Gas tanker leaks ammonia after suspected anti-Russia sabotage

  Reported explosion on Greek-owned vessel at Baltic port is sixth to hit ships this year

  
• July 6 2025
  News in-depth

  Japan’s shipbuilders look to consolidation to take on China

  US ally mounts most ambitious push in decades to revitalise sector dominated by Chinese and South Korean groups

  
• July 2 2025
  Sabotage suspected as mystery blasts hit oil tankers

  Five vessels hit with limpet mines this year shortly after visiting Russian ports

  
• July 2 2025
  Business InsightRichard Milne

  Market squalls threaten to throw container shipping off course

  How does an industry that built and benefited from globalisation survive when its main cheerleader turns on it?

  
• June 30 2025
  Supply chains

  European ports ‘overflowing’ as Trump tariffs cause congestion

  Barges and container ships face unusually long waits at major hubs with problems expected to last several months

  
• June 28 2025
  Arctic

  Finland optimistic of building icebreakers for US

  Helsinki eyes breakthrough after President Donald Trump makes Arctic security a priority

  
• June 23 2025
  News in-depthMiddle East war

  Military briefing: will Iran start a new ‘tanker war’?

  Ageing US mine-sweeping fleet ill-matched to counter a possible revival of 1980s campaign to blockade waterway

  
• June 19 2025
  Tanker rates double as shipowners steer clear of Strait of Hormuz

  Costs to charter crude carrier from Gulf to China soar after Israel’s strikes on Iran

  
• June 18 2025
  Insurance

  Insurers lift prices 60% for key Iran route as conflict threatens shipping

  Vessels face multiple dangers in Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for trade in crude oil

  
• June 13 2025
  Oil tanker owners reluctant to brave Strait of Hormuz, Frontline chief says

  Israel’s strike on Iran raises questions about waterway handling quarter of world crude oil supplies

  
• June 11 2025
  Visual investigation

  How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels

  Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

  

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