MSC Shipmanagement and the owner of MSC Samira III were sentenced to a combined $1.75 million and four years of…
Category: Maritime Regulations
Paris and Tokyo MoU Cargo-Securing CIC Is Live as China MSA Checks Ten Items Through November
The 2026 Port State Control Concentrated Inspection Campaign on cargo securing is no longer a planning circular. It opened on…
EU ETS 70 Percent Surrender Deadline Falls on 30 September as EUA Prices Sit Near €83
Shipping companies have 23 days to surrender EU Allowances covering 70 percent of verified 2025 CO2 in the maritime EU…
IMO Net-Zero Talks Keep GHG Pricing on the Table but Leave Operators Without Final MARPOL Text
ISWG-GHG 22 closed in London without a clean Annex VI text. A majority still backs a central GHG price and…
Marmara Collision Report: Watch Failures and Dark AIS Left 10 Missing After 11-Minute Sinking
A Silivri expert report says the 2 September Marmara TSS collision that sank Tuğberk İmamoğlu in 11 minutes, with 10…
Iran Plans Exclusion Zone Beyond Hormuz as US Blockade Redirects 92 Ships
On 6 September 2026 Iran said it will announce an exclusion zone beyond Hormuz. Identified ships entering the belt would…
UKMTO: Hormuz Traffic About 90 Percent Below Baseline; Southern Route Highest Risk
UKMTO said AIS-detected Hormuz transits remain about 90 percent below pre-conflict baseline, with the southern Omani corridor accounting for most…
After US–Iran Tanker Tit-for-Tat, Hormuz Reopen Talks Face Fresh Credibility Test
On 6 September, operators weighed overnight CENTCOM–IRGC tanker strikes against earlier corridor and demining diplomacy, with SEVERE conditions and suppressed…
Kharg Island Strike Widens Commercial Risk Deep into Iran Oil Export Hub
CENTCOM's 5 September disabling of tanker Downy off Kharg Island extends the wartime tanker battlespace roughly 300 miles northwest of…
PortWatch Snapshot: Hormuz Flows Still Near One Percent of Pre-War Levels
Early September PortWatch-linked readouts showed Hormuz transits still around roughly one percent of pre-war norms, framing the strait as commercially…
