News 2026 August 19

LNG supplier Avenir LNG bunkers Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas for first time in Honduras

Fifth MOL-chartered QatarEnergy LNG carrier named Al Sabsab in China

Maersk terminal arm orders 34 battery-powered yard cranes for New York-New Jersey gateway

New Zealand port operator Lyttelton commits NZ$821m to deepwater terminal with 850,000-TEU capacity

CMA CGM adds $250 per TEU Panama Canal surcharge on Far East trades

Maersk pushes AI customs checks upstream to flag tariff risks before cargo moves

Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy orders TMC compressors for two of world’s largest ethane carriers for Malaysia’s MISC

MOL leases four berths at expanded Kobe container terminal

UAE halts Iran trade and financial transactions after two ballistic missiles detected

EU clears Japanese shipping group NYK’s 50% buy into LNG bunker supplier Avenir

Danish shortsea operator Baltic Shipping puts wind-assisted hybrid coasters into service

Danish fund manager A.P. Moller Capital agrees to buy control of Moroccan logistics group Globex

US lawmakers oppose Trump plan to build Navy ships overseas

Chinese liner New New Shipping to deploy six ice-class boxships on Russia’s Arctic route

Global ship orderbook jumps 27% in fastest surge since eve of 2008 crisis

Saudi Aramco resumes crude loadings from its Juaymah and Ras Tanura terminals

Scottish state-owned shipbuilder Ferguson Marine moves to cut nearly quarter of workforce

ClassNK adds hydrogen leak benchmarks and methanol tank rules

Car-carrier group covering 80% of global capacity launches emissions data council

Tanzania-flagged cargo ship loses power in Turkey’s Dardanelles

Cargo ship with no crew aboard hit by multiple projectiles off Yemen and declared constructive total loss

Oman mounts 12-km shoreline clean-up after Caroline Bezengi oil spill

Filipino chief engineer killed as projectile hits Greek ship manager Modion’s bulker in Strait of Hormuz

Port of Los Angeles hits second-busiest July with 960,464 TEU

Japanese shipping group K Line to launch Kobe terminal handling nearly 40% of port’s foreign boxes