Lloyd's List Daily Briefing 9 April 2026

A shipowner’s survival guide to the US/China port fee war TELLING the teacher “But he started it!” is a classic playground tactic. And as countless generations of children have discovered, it is freq...

THE Houthi-held ports of Hodeidah and Saleef appear to have suffered considerable damage from Israel’s latest aerial bombardment on July 6, which was one of its heaviest raids since first attacking th...

TWO explosions that ripped through the engine room of a liquefied petroleum gas tanker owned by US-listed StealthGas on July 6 are thought to have been caused by timed explosive devices attached to th...

A TANKER purchased by the UN for $55m using international donations as part as an operation to avert an environmental crisis in Yemen, is being used by the Houthis as a floating storage facility for R...

ADDITIONAL pressure from European states on sanctioned and shadow fleet tankers has done little to deter Baltic Sea transits, but there are early signs that enhanced scrutiny is starting to divert som...

JAMMING and spoofing incidents are on the increase, especially as geopolitical tensions heat up in the Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz and Black Sea. The consequences for both jamming and spoofing can be di...

TAIWANESE carrier Wan Hai has scrapped plans to use liquefied natural gas for its newbuildings and instead committed to methanol engines, placing engine orders for 32 containerships with Swiss engine ...

THE Israel-Iran war drove shipowners and charterers to check their safe port and berth warranties in the Middle East, according to law firm Reed Smith. Such warranties in charterparties give the shipo...

BUSINESS between Greek shipping players and Chinese providers of finance is likely to expand in the coming years, despite US threats to penalise China-linked vessels calling in the US, a leading inter...

LAST Friday’s India-Sri Lanka shipyard tie-up announcement, though modest in scale, came at an interesting time. The acquisition of a majority stake in Colombo Dockyard proposed by state-owned Mazagon...

THE Strait of Hormuz is often framed as an energy chokepoint, handling about 20% of the world’s oil and a significant share of LNG trade, but its closure would also severely disrupt global container s...

ASIAN shipping stocks, especially tanker shares, quickly retreated on Tuesday after news emerged that Iran and Israel have agreed to hold ceasefire talks. Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation, one of ...

GRAIN exports out of occupied territories in Ukraine, particularly Sevastopol, have garnered international attention since the start of the war in Ukraine as Russia has been accused of using these por...

CHINA has ordered its merchant fleet to start reporting transits and voyages through the Strait of Hormuz to its shipowners association, sparking speculation that Beijing could be considering continge...

Oil infrastructure was hit in weekend attacks, instances of ‘extreme jamming’ of AIS are causing security problems, and the regional threat level remains significant, but vessel traffic remains largel...

Easing of US-China tensions and limited new ship supply open growth opportunities in China’s coastal container trade SHANGHAI-listed Antong Holdings has announced plans to invest Yuan1.2bn ($167m) in ...

“IT’S very slow here,” conceded Gene Seroka, executive of the Port of Los Angeles, during a press conference on Friday. “This week has been particularly slow. We do have 12 ships at the port today, wh...

GOVERNMENTS sometimes detain seafarers for years on end to strengthen their hand in negotiations over the bill for clean-up costs, an in-house lawyer from X-Press Feeders has claimed. Ravi Muthusamy, ...

THERE’S no word yet on when the final US Trade Representative plan on US port fees will be revealed, but it won’t be before the second week of July, a new filing by the USTR has confirmed. US port fee...