CIC results suggest inspectors detain ships more for ballast water treatment system performance and maintenance problems than for paperwork, with crew training gaps noted

Fleet Performance & Maintenance Regulations & Compliance

Cedar awards FLNG operations contract to Exmar

11 Feb 2026by Craig Jallal

Cedar LNG Partners selects Exmar for FLNG marine operations and maintenance, including procedure development from construction to start-up

Fleet Performance & Maintenance Ports & Terminals Shipbuilding & Design

IMO advances plan to cut ship noise

11 Feb 2026by Craig Jallal

IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction backs a two-year extension to URN trials and agrees draft co-optimisation guidance

Fleet Performance & Maintenance Regulations & Compliance

Class revises CAP thickness criteria for CSR tankers

29 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

CAP ratings for CSR tankers may now look more consistent under Lloyd’s Register, after it replaced percentage-based thickness criteria with fixed CSR-aligned values

Fleet Performance & Maintenance Regulations & Compliance

Engineroom bilges: a perspective on seaworthiness

26 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

Keeping the main engine flywheel bilge well dry reduces machinery and cargo-claim exposure

Fleet Performance & Maintenance

Digital logging targets cleaner oil-in-water compliance data

22 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

New partnership to link shipboard oil-in-water monitors to software for real-time capture

Business & Finance Regulations & Compliance

2025 in maritime optimisation and communications: LEO constellations, GPS jamming, AI and USVs drive development

29 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

Maritime Optimisation & Communications editor reviews the technology trends impacting the maritime world in 2025

Digitalisation

Centrica completes Grain LNG acquisition, data-led maintenance programme explained

18 Dec 2025by Craig Jallal

AI and drones contribute to new maintenance and inspection practices at Centrica’s latest acquisition

Business & Finance Digitalisation Fleet Performance & Maintenance

Tanker trial proves digital course for ship classification

11 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

A classification society has verified a ship’s auxiliary machinery remotely through a field trial on an oil-product carrier

Digitalisation Fleet Performance & Maintenance

P&O Maritime Logistics invests in maritime IoT platform

09 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

Machinery on vessels operating in Mozambique and the Dominican Republic will be monitored

Digitalisation

OPearl secures 15-year service deal for fleet

05 Dec 2025by Craig Jallal

Hong Kong-based OPearl LNG Ship Management deepens its long-term maintenance strategy with a 15-year service deal covering 14 vessels in its managed fleet

Fleet Performance & Maintenance Propulsion

AI platform improves South Australian port operations

01 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

An Australian infrastructure department is adopting a smart platform powered by artificial intelligence to manage its harbours

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Methanol-fuelled tugs to begin operations in 2026

Finally, the tug and towage sector will discover how methanol can become a credible alternative fuel to diesel

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Electric propulsion: powering the decarbonisation of close-to-shore shipping

17 Feb 2026by Luciano Santos

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Take care if local laws govern contract terms

16 Feb 2026by Simon Tatham

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Can Europe’s new e-fuel strategy for maritime help solve the fuel availability conundrum?

29 Jan 2026by Valentina Keys

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2026 in marine environmental protection: rules tighten to reduce ship discharges post-2026

13 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

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2026 in dry bulk: more ships, lower average earnings

09 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

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2026 in tanker shipping and trade: deliveries, decarbonisation, shifting geopolitics

07 Jan 2026by Craig Jallal

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2026 in tug and salvage: electric and methanol-fuelled tugs arrive

31 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

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2026 in maritime optimisation and communications: key digitalisation technologies to transform shipping

31 Dec 2025by Martyn Wingrove

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