Marcura has acquired the business assets of Fairway Maritime LLC, a US-based specialist in demurrage and marine claims management. The acquisition strengthens Marcura's demurrage management offering in the United States while adding specialist expertise across tanker, inland barge, and commodity trading markets. Founded in 2005, Fairway Maritime manages the complete claims process for shipowners, vessel pools, refiners and trading companies across the United States and Europe

Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), a leading international classification society, has launched NEURON, a smart digital platform that provides fast and intuitive access to IRClass Rules, Classification Notes, Guidelines and other technical publications. Designed as a modern knowledge platform, NEURON enables maritime professionals to quickly locate technical and regulatory information, reducing the time spent navigating multiple documents while supporting ship design, constru

Human factors must be treated as a central part of maritime safety as the industry responds to increasing operational complexity, digitalisation and technological change, speakers told a major conference hosted by CHIRP Maritime and The Nautical Institute. The Human Factors Conference, held at Trinity House, London, brought together maritime professionals, regulators, training experts, technology specialists and safety leaders to examine how people, systems and organisations

CM Technologies (CMT) has supplied its integrated onboard fuel/oil testing and analysis kits to a fleet of 300 containerships and bulk carriers managed by one of Germany's leading independent shipmanagement companies. Implemented progressively over the past decade, the fleet-wide rollout has established a common testing platform for the unnamed shipowner, enabling consistent fuel and lubricating oil analysis across its fleet regardless of vessel type, trade route or operating

U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command released its fifth annual Cyber Trends and Insights in the Marine Environment (CTIME) report. The U.S. Coast Guard continues its commitment to securing critical systems in the Marine Transportation System (MTS) by collaborating with the maritime industry to share best practices and provide insights into evolving cyber risks. The line between the physical and cyber domains continues to blur, where for the first time CGCYBER deployed Cyber Protect

RAD, the marine technology company developing advanced electric propulsion systems and autonomous vessel technologies for defence and commercial applications, today announces the close of a £4.4 million funding round.. The raise follows a period of strong commercial and product momentum and will fund the company's next phase of growth. The round was led by Mercia Ventures and reflects confidence in RAD's ability to translate complex marine technology challenges into scalable

OceanScore, the maritime data and sustainability company helping shipping and ports turn regulatory and environmental complexity into commercial success, today announced growing adoption of PortView, its dedicated port emissions intelligence platform designed to help ports measure, understand and improve the impact of their environmental strategy. Already used by more than 30 ports, PortView helps ports move beyond assumptions and fragmented reporting by providing continuous

The ICS Maritime Barometer report 2025-2026 report contains insights gained from five years of data and reveals significant shifts in industry sentiment, largely driven by unprecedented global instability. ‘Geopolitics and political instability’, ‘Cyber attacks’ and ‘Regulations’ are the highest risks on the minds of maritime executives, while ‘Regulations’, ‘Public funding’ and ‘Market-based measures’ were the leading impact factors on operations. Namrata Nadkarni, Founder a

Stathis Kalkounis, Energy & Environmental Engineer, Central Mare As demands for quality of vessel performance data increase, companies need to check data at least for every voyage and ensure every data point is backed up by evidence. Stathis Kalkounis, Energy & Environmental Engineer, Central Mare explained Regulations such as ETS and FuelEU Maritime are pushing shipping companies to improve the quality of their vessel performance and emissions data. If data is wrong, it c

We can improve performance data with time and effort, having standardised formats, reducing sensor errors, supporting crew, and with automated monitoring. Speakers from Angelakos Hellas, Central Mare, Blue Autonomy and NeptuneZero discussed Companies which win the decarbonisation race will be those which put most time and effort into vessel performance data, said Christos Papandreou, CEO & Founder, Blue Autonomy, and a former fleet performance engineer with Athenian Sea Car

Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has secured an agreement with Hapag-Lloyd to deploy NexusWave across its global fleet, following successful onboard trials of the fully managed bonded connectivity service. A long-standing Inmarsat customer for almost 25 years, Hapag-Lloyd began evaluating NexusWave in 2024 as part of its broader digitalisation roadmap and Strategy 2030 ambitions. The company sought a future-proof connectivity platform capable of supporting increasingly da

Photo courtesy Loukas Michalitsis Speakers from A M Nomikos TWMA, Hellas Confidence, KPMG Greece and Ulysses Systems discussed the growing maritime cyber threat, preventing attacks permitted by company staff, hacker AI, cybersecurity for OT, space and GPS, and using models Over the past few years, we have seen attackers learning more about shipping, said Yiannis Sofianidis, IT Director and CISO - A.M. Nomikos Transworld Maritime Agencies (TWMA) , speaking at a cybersecurity

Christos Papandreou, CEO & Founder, Blue Autonomy To achieve vessel performance, first you need to measure performance and decide what to change. Then you need experts who can drive this change, working with the crew and operations staff. Christos Papandreou explained : Improving vessel performance can be more a motivational challenge than a technical one, said Christos Papandreou, CEO & Founder, Blue Autonomy, and a former fleet performance engineer with Athenian Sea Carri

Major maritime, ports and energy companies have been identified by Cydome’s threat-intelligence unit as having Fortinet Firewall passwords and logins leaked in the recent “FortiBleed” incident. More than 86,000 Administrator credentials of Fortinet Firewalls and other devices protecting the networks of thousands of organisations across 194 countries were breached, with hackers gaining unauthorised access to the Fortinet devices and enabling them to further compromise the tar

COMPETIQ a new live avatar interviewer recruitment platform designed for merchant shipping and the wider maritime industry, has been launched to help employers recruit qualified seafarers faster, while maintaining rigorous standards of safety, verification and competence. Developed by Glasgow-based maritime technology company The World Yacht, the COMPETIQ platform enables organisations to interview large numbers of candidates simultaneously using AI live avatar interviewers,

Navarino is delighted to have worked with the Angelicoussis Group, one of the world’s largest privately owned groups of affiliated shipping companies, and Space X to roll out Starlink across more than 140 vessels. Situation The Angelicoussis Group is one of the world’s largest privately owned groups of affiliated shipping companies, founded in 1947. It operates a diversified fleet of 160 vessels across Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), tanker, and dry bulk segments with a combined

Germany’s USC Barnkrug, the ship services division of Elbdeich Reederei, has adopted CMT’s Ferrous Wear Debris Meter (FWDM) to improve cylinder condition monitoring across its new two-stroke engined container fleet. The decision follows a successful onboard trial that showed ferrous metal debris monitoring could deliver repeatable results, closer alignment with laboratory analysis and a simpler testing process than the total iron methods previously used by the owner. USC

ABS has launched Eagle CRoute, an online tool designed to help containership operators improve operational flexibility through route-based lashing reduction factor calculations. Changing port rotations, blank sailings, evolving stowage plans and shifting geopolitical conditions are increasing pressure on operators to make faster loading decisions. Eagle CRoute supports these decisions by calculating specific reduction factors for onboard lashing force assessments for any give

AST Networks today has announced the launch of Phase2 - powered by OneWeb, their enhanced connectivity offering designed to provide maritime, offshore, enterprise and remote operations with improved coverage, greater commercial flexibility, stronger security, and a future-ready approach to connectivity. AST Networks today has announced the launch of Phase2 - powered by OneWeb, their enhanced connectivity offering designed to provide maritime, offshore, enterprise and remote o

Syroco, the maritime technology company specialising in voyage optimisation, today announced that DNV has verified its methodology for estimating the savings generated by its Syroco Live platform. Following a review of Syroco's ‘Savings Calculation Methodology, Voyage Optimisation’, DNV confirmed that Syroco has developed a method providing a means to consistently estimate the benefits of its voyage optimisation service. The review covered two of the platform's voyage opera