With over three decades of experience in the aviation and air cargo industry, Michael Cox is a seasoned leader known for his strategic vision and operational expertise. Currently serving as President of Avia Cargo, Michael has built a reputation for driving innovation and efficiency in the logistics sector. How did you get into the air cargo and logistics […]
On Saturday, Ecuador’s navy seized about 800 kilos of cocaine from a Hapag-Lloyd boxship off the coast of Manta after receiving a tip-off about possible drugs on board. At a position about 45 nautical miles off Manta, an Armada del Ecuador boarding team met up with the boxship Guayaquil Express, an 11,500 TEU container ship […]
Maersk and India’s Cochin Shipyard have entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore ship repair, maintenance, and shipbuilding in India. The Danish company becomes the first major carrier to plan regular maintenance activities in India which will be in support of the government’s goals to develop shipbuilding into one of India’s leading industries. […]
Air cargo was a standout performer in 2024, growing 11.3 percent —outpacing passenger demand. E-commerce expansion and disruptions in sea shipping kept demand high, with yields 39 percent above 2019 levels. Looking ahead, 2025 is set for another 5.8 percent growth, but challenges loom: geopolitical uncertainty, inflation, and potential US policy shifts, including new tariffs. […]
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard detained an illegal alien who was working as a crewmember on an American fishing vessel, along with the vessel’s master. During an inspection at Port Isabel, Texas, a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island boat crew boarded the boat Los Nietos, a 78-foot shrimp boat built in 1978. […]
The Southampton Crown Court, UK, on Friday, February 14, sentenced the master of a North Sea cargo ship and the company operating the vessel for their involvement in causing a fatal accident in 2021. The master, who was reported to have been on his first voyage in command, pleaded guilty to failing to operate […]
A Ukrainian drone strike in Krasnodar has reduced the capacity of the CPC pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, according to Russian and Ukrainian sources. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is a U.S.-British-Italian-Russian-Kazakh pipeline partnership that transports Kazakh oil through Russian territory to a single-point mooring terminal at Novorossiysk. It has a nameplate […]
[By David Uren] The rising use of economic coercion is a symptom of an increasingly unstable world that is struggling to contain rise of China and is no longer bound by the institutions established in the wake of World War II. US President Donald Trump’s scattergun threats of punitive tariffs are a continuation of […]
The carrier USS Harry S. Truman has arrived in Souda Bay, Crete for emergency repairs after a collision damaged her starboard quarter on Wednesday night. The impact caused minor damage to the hull and several exterior structures, but the impact was comparatively limited. “While the ship is fully mission capable and the ship conducted […]
The International shipping sector provides an outsized and growing contribution to the climate crisis. Slower, more efficient ships can help slash climate emissions, but this will not happen without ambitious regulation. Fortunately, the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) current revision of the rules around its Carbon Intensity Indicator, a metric for measuring and regulating ships’ […]
With Russia’s footprint in the Mediterranean facing uncertainty, the deal for a naval base in Sudan has reached a new milestone. Last week, Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) foreign minister Ali Youssef Ahmed al-Sharif was in Moscow, where he met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Although the negotiations for the base were not part of […]
It’s been a good – no, an exceptional year – for OSM Thome, marked by significant growth, strategic achievements and new opportunities in the maritime and offshore sectors. It all began with the merger of OSM Maritime and the Thome Group a year earlier. “The merger between OSM Maritime and the Thome Group has […]
