Athens-Piraeus maintains eighth position among global shipping centres in 2025 ISCDI rankings, demonstrating remarkable resilience through strategic investments, technological innovation, and steady performance across cargo, cruise, and vehicle segments despite challenging market conditions
In today’s increasingly complex maritime industry, technical know-how alone isn’t enough. This article highlights the urgent need to recognize and cultivate common sense as a critical, often overlooked operational asset
While Houthis sink ships and insurers double premiums, maritime giants secure billion-dollar financing deals. July’s maritime disruption reveals an industry simultaneously under siege and flush with capital, rewriting traditional risk calculations
Trump’s latest tariff threats have shipping giants scrambling like seasoned strategic masterminds, but instead of moving pieces across boards, they’re repositioning entire fleets while major European ports brace for August’s looming trade apocalypse
Despite geopolitical friction, inflation, and weak bulk demand, global freight rates are rewriting the script. Containers surge, dry bulk sinks, and the second half of 2025 promises turbulence, not tranquility, across maritime trade
Dry, tanker and gas newbuilding orders have slowed to a crawl in 2025, as sky-high costs, regulatory haze, and disappointing freight returns fuel restraint. Containers, however, continue to dance against gravity
A ghost fleet now roams the seas—unregulated, uninsured, and unstoppable. This report dives into the shadowy logistics of oil sanctions evasion—and the surprising complicity of global maritime powers
The strategic significance of the Hormuz Strait, as detailed by Port Economics, Management and Policy in their work by Theo Notteboom, Alfred Baird, and Jean-Paul Rodrigue, remains an undeniable force in global maritime affairs
Global newbuilding orders have collapsed, yet Greek shipowners are bucking the trend—placing over $2.2 billion in fresh contracts, as the industry grapples with trade wars, fuel dilemmas, and regulatory fog
Echoes of the 1980s Tanker War resurface as tensions grip the Strait of Hormuz in 2025, with shipping companies deploying historical lessons to navigate new threats in the world’s most critical maritime chokepoint