With much in the news, I wish you good fixtures and safe travels. And now for the news before the headlines.

Five maintenance workers were killed in a tanker barge explosion on the Paraguay River near Asunción on July 4, 2026.

A bulk carrier came under fire from an armed skiff off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, UKMTO reports. Crew safe near Hodeidah; no group has claimed the attack.

Germany has formally charged Ukrainian national Serhii K., an officer of the Ukrainian army at the time of the incident, with being an accomplice to a war crime over the 2022 NordStream Pipeline attack.

China’s first end-to-end zero carbon sea-river intermodal shipping corridor has officially entered into operation, with the 10,000-tonne class all-electric container ship Ningyuan Dianpeng.

Capacity on major Asia Europe and transpacific routes has bounced back from post-Iran war disruption, but freight rates remain sharply above pre-crisis levels across key East-West lanes.

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is poised to make the largest foreign private investment in India’s port infrastructure, but the $1.4bn deal is not without controversy.

The Canal de Panamá is preparing to tighten draught limits for neopanamax vessels again, in another sign that water risk is returning to one of shipping’s most important chokepoints.

Indonesian owners continue to show appetite for older large LNG carriers, giving several laid-up ships a second life.

China’s electric shipbuilding push is accelerating rapidly, with new data showing the country is moving battery-powered cargo vessels from experimental projects into real commercial operation.

China’s Wison New Energies has officially signed the EPCIC contract with Eni and Altera Infrastructure -Baleine Phase3 FPSO facility- Ivory Coast.

The US Navy has suspended a multi-day search for a sailor who went missing in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea.

Reportedly, 20,000 seafarers on board some 2,000 ships, including tankers, bulk carriers, cargoships, and cruise ships, were stranded in the Persian Gulf due to Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

For a second year in a row, China has launched a large expedition to the Arctic involving four research vessels.

Advantage Tankers has confirmed two suezmax newbuildings at Samsung Heavy Industries. The Tugrul Tokgoz-led owner lists the 157,000 dwt crude tankers Advantage Spirit and Advantage Synergy as dual fuel-ready units.

The European-led navalforce – which was intended to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz, appears to have foundered without any formal announcement of its demise.

The U.S. Coast Guard reported this week that it has finalized the contracts for six Arctic Security Cutters to be built by Finland’s Rauma Marine Constructions Oy and Bollinger Shipyards Lockport.

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