The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months. “It is really strange that everything looks normal outside, but people inside are not calm,” says the Pakistani sailor, who doesn’t...

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The Screening Model Customs Was Built On No Longer Holds For most of the last twenty years, customs enforcement has operated on a screening model. Cargo manifests arrive ahead of port call, risk scores are calculated against the declared origin, shipper, and route,...

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The Panama Canal announced through an advisory to shipping companies that, effective July 1, the maximum authorized draft for vessels transiting the Neopanamax locks will be 49.5 feet (15.09 meters). The adjustment is based on current and projected Gatun Lake levels...

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ARA and Europe Rotterdam’s B30-VLSFO (POMEME) price has shown a slight increase of $9/mt over the week. The port’s conventional VLSFO price has dipped around $5/mt during the same time. Prima Markets has assessed a $64/mt drop in POMEME barge price, which has failed...

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Container shipping majors are out with peak season surcharges for mid-June and early-July, driven by soaring demand amid an early onset of peak season as US importers rush to get goods into the country before Section 301 tariffs take effect. The United States Trade...

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Whether a large newbuild order book would weigh on tanker rates could depend on the pace of shadow-fleet scrapping and evolving demand situations during the Hormuz shipping crisis, some ship operators said. Industry association BIMCO estimates the crude tanker order...

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