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18.12.2025
CMA CGM Doubles Number of Women Seafarers in One Year with She Sails ProgramFrench shipping giant CMA CGM has doubled the number of women seafarers in just one year following the launch of its She Sails program – a major step forward in an industry that has traditionally struggled with gender diversity. Launched in December 2024, the program increased the number of ...11.12.2025
Samsung Heavy Industries Opens Remote Ship Operation Centre with Evergreen in TaiwanSamsung Heavy Industries has opened a remote ship operation centre at Evergreen’s headquarters in Taipei, becoming the first collaboration between a shipbuilder and a shipping company to establish such a facility. The Samsung Remote Operation Centre (SROC) has been designed as a land-based c...04.12.2025
Klaipėda port moves closer to becoming the Baltic’s first green hydrogen hubA significant milestone has been reached in the Klaipėda Port green hydrogen production project, which has no analogues in Lithuania or neighboring ports: the equipment has arrived at the site where the hydrogen station will be built. The arrival of this equipment marks an important step forward ...27.11.2025
Female Master Mariner Wins Seafarer Of The Year At 2025 Crew Connect Global AwardsOn 12 November, the Seatrade Maritime Crew Connect Global Awards were held, at which Captain Zulayka Florin, who works for OSM Thome, was named “Seafarer of the Year”. She was one of five seafarers from around the world who were selected for the award. Florin, who sails chemical tanker...20.11.2025
Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) in Egypt Completes 2.2 Million TEU-ExpansionThe expansion adds 955 metres of new quay and 510,000 m² of yard space, supported by 12 quay cranes, 30 electric RTGs, and more than 90 trucks. This upgrade increases capacity by 2.2 million TEUs annually, raising SCCT’s total capacity to 7 million TEUs - further strengthening Egypt&rsquo...13.11.2025
South Korea Raises 600-Year-Old Joseon-Era Cargo Ship From SeabedSouth Korean archaeologists have recovered the complete remains of a 600-year-old cargo ship from the seabed off the country’s west coast, providing rare insight into how goods and taxes were transported during the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). The National Research Institute of Maritime...06.11.2025
CMA CGM To Flag 10 Of The World’s Largest LNG-Powered Container Ships Under French FlagThe vessels, each with a capacity of 24,212 TEUs, are among the largest and most energy-efficient ships in the world. They will be delivered gradually from 2026 and deployed on CMA CGM’s French Asia Line (FAL 1), connecting Northern Europe to Asia with regular calls at Le Havre and Dunkirk. ...30.10.2025
China's biggest all-electric dry cargo ship launchedThe world’s biggest 10,000-ton pure electric transport ship called Gezhouba was launched in Yichang, in western Hubei province of China. The ship is 129.98 m long, 22 m wide and 7.7 m deep with a draft of 6.5 m and a maximum deadweight of 13,740 tons. It will mainly transport bulk commodit...27.10.2025
CircleDV Launches CDV Health Telemedicine Service for SeafarersThe system combines a telehealth app with a monitoring device that automatically records six key health metrics – blood glucose, blood pressure, body temperature, ECG, heart rate, and oxygen saturation – and uploads the data to a secure digital record. The readings can be shared live w...16.10.2025
ADNOC Logistics & Services PLC and TA’ZIZ Have Signed a Contract to Build a Chemicals Port at the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone in Al RuwaisThe port will be completed by 2026 The system would include a tank terminal, feedstock pipelines, and infrastructure, including roads, emergency response, health and safety This would include: low-carbon ammonia caustic soda methanol ethylene dichloride (EDC) vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) polyv...
