The global containership orderbook has hit a record 13 million TEU — and shipping consultancy Linerlytica is warning that the industry’s capacity discipline may be tested like never before as the delivery wave accelerates.
American Cruise Lines’ newest and most spacious riverboat, American Encore, launched its sold-out inaugural season today from Portland — marking the arrival of the eighth American Cruise Lines vessel to call the Columbia and Snake Rivers home.
The IMO’s Net Zero Framework survived a coordinated push to weaken or dismantle it at MEPC 84, with a narrow majority of member states reaffirming it as the basis for negotiations — and setting December as the next shot at formal adoption.
MARAD has awarded $774 million to 37 U.S. port projects — from Alaska to West Virginia — in one of the largest single-round port infrastructure investments in recent history.
A new global ports report finds near-universal commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050 — but warns that progress is fragmenting along regional and financial fault lines just as the pressure to act intensifies.
Washington is pouring historic funding into American shipbuilding — but a joint congressional hearing this week revealed that investment alone won’t fix decades of delays, cost overruns, and industrial base failures.
The Coast Guard’s decision to homeport its first two new Arctic icebreakers in Alaska signals a generational shift in U.S. Arctic strategy — and a changing of the guard for the Pacific Northwest’s icebreaking fleet.
The Port of Vancouver USA has earned its 17th consecutive clean audit — a nearly two-decade streak of flawless financial accountability from Washington State’s independent auditor.
A Seattle-Gulf Coast tug partnership has landed a $300 million, 20-year contract to build and operate four hybrid escort tugs for Woodside Energy’s massive Louisiana LNG terminal.
A bunkering mishap at Europe’s second-busiest port sent oil into the Scheldt River and across protected Dutch wetlands, triggering a weeks-long environmental cleanup with lasting operational and ecological consequences.
