The heavy-lift ship Black Marlin has delivered China Zorrilla, the world’s largest electric ferry, to Uruguay after a 40-day voyage from Tasmania. The Incat-built vessel will begin service across the Rio de la Plata between Colonia del Sacramento and Buenos Aires.
Global port congestion has surpassed pandemic-era peaks, with Linerlytica reporting 4.31 million TEUs waiting to berth in late August. Typhoons, strikes, and cascading schedule disruptions are overwhelming gateways from Shanghai to Hamburg, with some Chinese terminals seeing waits of up to 12 days.
The Port of Baltimore has opened a four-acre on-dock grain transloading facility at Seagirt, giving agricultural exporters a direct route into its container network.
MSC Shipmanagement and a Hong Kong shipowner have pleaded guilty to MARPOL violations after crew aboard the MSC Samira III bypassed pollution controls and falsified records, resulting in a $1.75 million fine and probation.
The Panama Canal Authority has again postponed a planned draft cut at the Neopanamax Locks, holding the maximum draft at 48 feet as stable Gatun Lake levels ease pressure despite a forecasted Super El Niño drought.
SAFEEN Drydocks has installed a 230-metre floating dock, the UAE’s largest, at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Port, expanding capacity for repair and maintenance work on larger commercial vessels and offshore rigs. The dock has a 21,000-tonne lifting capacity alongside 1,000 metres of new quayside.
Sea-Intelligence reports all 14 of Asia’s busiest container ports have seen declining on-time vessel arrivals, driven by consecutive typhoons and wider supply chain disruption. Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan were hardest hit, with schedule reliability at Shanghai dropping to its lowest level in 14 years of recorded data.
Turkish search teams recovered an empty lifeboat and debris after a cargo ship carrying 10 crew is believed to have sunk following a Marmara Sea collision.
EU-approved recycling yards used just 5 percent of their capacity while most EU tonnage was beached in South Asia.
The IMO’s Intersessional Working Group reconvenes in London next week, with nations sharply split over carbon pricing, GHG Fuel Intensity targets, and how to structure the Net-Zero Framework’s proposed multibillion-dollar fund.
