News 2026 September 4

German maritime investor MPC Capital becomes MPC Oceanic Group

Spanish tanker manager Marflet deploys country's first merchant-fleet suction sails

CMA CGM, class society Bureau Veritas launch AI boxship study with Chinese designer

UK lays keel for first £1.6bn naval support ship and names next two

Danish port starts concrete work on 430-metre quay for MSC terminal in Aarhus

German ferry operator TT-Line signs four Everllence deals for newbuilds and fleet

Norwegian Kongsberg leads $7.3m project to integrate wind propulsion on ships

US signals openness to alternative to IMO-run shipping climate fund

83 feared dead as Spain rescues 44 from migrant boat off Gran Canaria

Two Chinese tankers collide off China’s Yangtze estuary, both ships damaged

Iran adds 11 tankers and gas carriers to Hormuz blacklist, total reaches 56

Global shipping groups press EU to approve first Indian ship recycling yards

Fednav bulker loads first grain export in six years at Canadian Arctic port

EU launches maritime alliance to drive shipbuilding and retrofit investment

Filo Jet captain paid $3,500 for Honduran licence before Cyprus ferry sank

Maersk and Lloyd’s Register launch ‘Pink Corridor’ nuclear boxship study

Panama buys remaining 41% of oil corridor operator for $191.7m

Turkey remands two tanker officers after Sea of Marmara collision leaves 10 missing

Marine war-risk claims near $2bn as Hormuz premiums hit 10%

LNG drives alternative-fuel ship orders to highest since October 2024

Saudi crude exports hit nine-year low as tanker attacks squeeze Hormuz and Red Sea

Global boxship fleet to hit 34m TEU on record deliveries and low scrapping

IMO joins UN nuclear agency drive to set rules for nuclear-powered merchant ships

Israeli shipowner Ray orders 10 LNG car carriers in China in $1bn-plus deal

Japanese shipowner MOL says Hormuz shipping restart unlikely before 2027