In an update published today (20 July), Clarksons Research says that Strait of Hormuz vessel transits have fallen to an average of 12 per day over the past five days, compared with a pre-conflict daily tally of 125 crossings. Steve Gordon, Global Head of Clarksons Research also noted that in tonnage terms, transits have dropped to over 95% below ‘normal’ levels in recent days, and energy volumes leaving the Gulf are also diminishing. According to Clarksons, an average of 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude passed through the Strait over the past week, down from 10 million bpd […]

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping (MMMCZCS) has open-sourced Navigate, its maritime decarbonisation pathways simulation software tool. The move makes Navigate’s code and underlying assumptions freely available for industry feedback, allowing users to ‘examine its code, scrutinize its assumptions and challenge its findings’, said the Center. In a post shared today on LinkedIn, MMMCZCS said: ‘Discussions about shipping’s future are too often constrained by disagreement over whose numbers are valid, rather than by dialogue on what actions to take. By making the code and its assumptions freely available, Navigate offers the industry a transparent, common foundation it […]

Drewry has today (17 July) reported that: ‘Global port throughput volumes in 2025 demonstrated remarkable resilience, rising 6.5% year-on-year (YoY) to 994 mteu [million twenty-foot equivalent units], despite challenging geopolitical conditions’ – and added that, going forward, ‘across the industry, decarbonisation of operations is the most pressing environmental issue’. In a statement announcing the publication of its latest Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast, the maritime consultancy noted that: ‘All 19 companies featured in the global operator league tables have published a commitment to achieve net zero, with the timeline varying between 2040 and 2060. There is a […]