Good morning, and welcome to my daily Panamax Post column

It is the morning after the very late night with the Spot Ship Europe team all in #london and another barnstormer of a wet and rainy 10c morning here in London, where we are forecast gusts of 35mph until midday and then it will settle down for a much drier weekend

With much in the news, I wish you good fixtures and safe travels until we meet here again on Monday. And now for the news before the headlines

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took its second price cap enforcement action of 2024

A.P. Moller – Maersk could look at a potential acquisition of DB Schenker

Of the 24 vessels to be delivered to DS NORDEN in the coming year, three quarters will be bulkers

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd. (HD KSOE) has plans unveiled to develop small modular nuclear reactors for use on newbuilds: Mikal Bøe

Stolt-Nielsen Limited is interested in a merger with Odfjell Technology. The chemical tanker competitor, who flatly rejects the notion

#yemen and #houthi militant group continues to stage and prepare anti-ship missiles

Dutch shipping firms have approached the Defence Ministry for permission to put armed guards on their vessels

Lloyd’s Register has awarded Approval in Principle to the Riigilaevastik Estonian State Fleet for a new and advanced #hydrogen fuel-cell ferry

Porto Itapoaá has obtained fourth place in the ANTAQ – Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários list

PortXchange [B-Corp] highlights the sectors lack of readiness for the upcoming #euets

#maersk has reported strong financial results for 2023

ExxonMobil has reserved up to four slots for shuttle tanker newbuilds in South Korea

Diamond Offshore Drilling (U.K.) Ltd. has won a contract with Serica Energy plc

Maersk chief executive to run Denmark’s largest shipping company under a single brand for global container #logistics

Ørsted has radically rolled back its plans for expansion

The US Navy has picked Kongsberg Maritime, Oceaneering and Anduril Industries to develop prototypes for unmanned subs

Ten thousand #seafarers leave the industry every year through preventable ill health

Piraeus Port Authority-PPA/OLP-COSCO Shipping’s exclusion from the European Ports Alliance epa is causing concern

WARTSILA OIL & GAS SYSTEMS AS SUCURSAL EN ESPAÑA Solutions to deliver fuel supply system for two new gas carriers

There’s no one “right” route into shipping Federica Maiorano

#governmentregulations restrict American production of critical #minerals , #metals#uranium#coal#oilandgasRichard Storm

India coal production figure of 800 MT mark was achieved on 8 March, 2023 in the last FY 2022-23

Thank you to Adis AjdinMarcus HandVijay KrishnaThe Maritime ExecutiveRichard StormMikal BøeKindra Snow-McGregor