News 2026 August 12

ADNOC Gas awards $8.2bn EPC contracts to Wison and Tecnimont

ABL and BMB join forces on Baltic marine assurance

Canadian Coast Guard to put its newest search-and-rescue lifeboat Mira Bay into service

Maersk offers deposit-free container release in Kenya

Grounded MSC Silvana VIII sinks deeper after refloating fails

IEA cuts 2026 oil demand outlook as Hormuz disruption bites

Leonhardt & Blumberg fits first of four newbuilds with VentoFoils

APM Terminals is represented at nine of the world’s top 20 most efficient container ports in the 2025

MOL closes CNOOC six-ship LNG series with final 174,000-cbm carrier

Bangladesh to launch first nationwide vessel census on 20 August

Gulf disruption cuts Far East-India/Middle East/Red Sea capacity by more than 14%

QSL’s 200,000-TEU Quebec terminal clears federal assessment hurdle

BW-backed Cadeler buys German offshore foundations specialist Menck for $578m

PanStar buys 2,758-TEU HMM boxship for South Korea’s first Arctic trial

Syria's Tartous berth 4 enters commercial service

President Vladimir Putin promises retaliation against any EU moves to seize merchant ships with Russian cargo

Egypt’s Damietta port refloats drone-damaged FSRU Energos Winter under SMIT plan

China’s Ningbo Zhoushan Port starts approvals work for Fodu phase two

Norwegian aquaculture vessel operator Frøy orders two Nantong Rainbow wellboats with four options

Tanker orders hit record 96.4m dwt by end-July

Shah Deniz consortium awards Emerson automation contract for Caspian gas compression project

Buenaventura port remains open after 7.4-magnitude Colombia earthquake

China takes 81% of July shipbuilding orders as South Korea holds 16%

Grimaldi takes first 9,800-CEU ammonia-ready PCTC

Iran’s new security chief says Oman shipping deal will not reopen Hormuz

One dead, 172 evacuated after Jemla Ferry ro-ro fire in Indonesia

Four seafarers killed in Houthi missile attack on Tihamah in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

US Navy Hellfire strike disables Panama-flagged containership in Gulf of Oman