Ro/Ro Shipping Analysis 2026 – Operators, Fleets, Trades

Please be advised that an agreement has been made among the partner lines to omit M/V OOCL SEOUL V.0118W’s FRLEH call to mitigate schedule delays.

For decades, maritime operations have been defined by tradition, by paper logs, phone calls, and manual entries that somehow coordinated one of the most complex systems in the world. That era is ending. Today, software is doing what steel and fuel once did for the industry, powering global trade at scale.

A tanker at anchor in Kuwait reports large explosion as five other ships including MSC container ship are involved in strikes or near misses in 24 hours.

Arsenio Dominguez and ICS Chairman Emanuele Grimaldi highlight the plight of crew trapped in the region.

The granting of war cover for the Persian Gulf and Red Sea is and will remain available under specific agreement on a single voyage basis as long as navigation is authorised by governments and flag states, according to the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI).

GMS, a large buyer of ships for recycling, has called on the European Commission to approve qualified Indian ship recycling facilities for inclusion on the European List under the EU Ship Recycling Regulation (EU SRR).

In accordance with the assessment of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the container rates this week returned to an increasing tendency. As it is mentioned, their composite World Container Index increased by 3% to $1,958 per 40-foot container.

The New York-listed owner, led by Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos, said it has signed up for the construction of the additional ships at a Chinese yard, with deliveries set between the fourth quarter of 2027 and the fourth quarter of 2028.