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About the PSC Top 10 Performers & PSC Resilient 50...
posted on: Aug 27, 2026
About the PSC Top 10 Performers & PSC Resilient 50 At RISK4SEA, we are dedicated to providing actionable PSC intelligence to illuminate Port State Control (PSC) performance and support the journey toward sustainable shipping. With a focus on embracing excellence, we are thrilled to announce the 8th edition of the PSC Top 10 Performers, alongside the latest issue of our initiative called “PSC Resilient 50” that highlights the Top 50 Managers in terms of PSCIs without any detention. Both of which provide transparent access to the documentary evidence and in-depth research underpinning our findings. We have meticulously mapped the entire PSC ecosystem—including PSC stations, ships, managers, and PSC inspections (PSCIs)—and finalized a robust benchmarking methodology, designed to be practical, accurate, and verifiable, ensuring it is both meaningful and applicable in real-world scenarios, incorporating geotagged PSCI data for the specific ship type, fleet segment, and age group. We are excited to introduce this...
Höegh Autoliners adds six Aurora ships as 58% carbon reduction shapes fleet renewal...
posted on: Aug 27, 2026
Höegh Autoliners has ordered another six dual-fuel, zero-carbon-ready Aurora class vessels, taking its newbuilding programme to 18 ships with room to grow to 26. The decision combines lower carbon emissions with a long-term fleet strategy built around capacity, fuel flexibility and growth in Asian trades. Höegh Autoliners has ordered six additional Aurora class vessels from China Merchants Heavy Industry in a further expansion of its green fleet renewal programme. The ships are scheduled for delivery between 2029 and 2031 and will take the Aurora programme to 18 vessels. Höegh has also secured options for four more ships on the same terms and reserved construction slots for another four, creating a route to a fleet of up to 26 Aurora vessels. Each vessel can carry up to 9,100 cars and is designed to cut carbon emissions by up to 58% compared with conventional pure car and truck carriers. The ships...
AI Companies Look to the Ocean as a Place to Put Data Centers...
posted on: Aug 27, 2026
[By Nir Kshetri] The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use and carbon footprint. These challenges are making companies look beyond traditional land-based data centers. Some developers are now exploring the ocean as a new location for AI infrastructure in the hopes that underwater data centers could improve energy use and cooling efficiency while using less fresh water and land area than onshore buildings. My research focuses on the societal, organizational and environmental implications of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and the digital infrastructure – including data centers – that supports its development and deployment. I see underwater data centers as a promising new approach for supporting the growth of AI. But moving servers into the ocean does not make other underlying environmental challenges such as energy consumption and carbon emissions disappear. And it creates new concerns about harm to the marine environment, as well as questions about how these data...
SmartSea: Turning fleets into intelligent operational networks...
posted on: Aug 27, 2026
SmartSea CEO Kris Vedat argues shipping’s digital future depends less on more sensors than on breaking down data silos and managing fleets as connected operational networks. The idea that every ship should be treated as an isolated operating environment is becoming obsolete, argues Kris Vedat, CEO of SmartSea. As vessels become more closely connected to shore teams, ports, suppliers and performance centres, Vedat says the industry needs to stop thinking ship by ship and instead manage fleets as integrated operational networks. “The future fleet should be treated as one intelligent operational network, allowing expertise, information and lessons learned to be distributed consistently while preserving the authority and judgement of those onboard,” he tells Maritime CEO. This shift, he says, goes to the heart of what digitalisation in shipping should ultimately achieve. Ships may increasingly function as nodes within a wider network, but the industry is still failing to extract...
Hormuz traffic falls approximately 90% below pre-conflict levels...
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
Fewer than 20 commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, as Iranian and U.S. blockades continued to restrict traffic through the key energy shipping chokepoint, shipping data showed on August 24. According to Reuters, Kpler data showed four vessels crossed the strait on Sunday and 13 on 22 August, compared with 16 on 21 August. The figures could change as some vessels switched off their AIS transponders while transiting. On 20 August, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) carrying about 2 million barrels of Emirati crude exited the strait. Eight very large gas carriers also transited the strait over the three-day period. Six entered empty, while two exited carrying liquefied petroleum gas loaded in Iran. Key UKTMO Insights According to UKMTO, despite a brief recovery in late June, vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains significantly reduced. AIS transit information suggests operators increasingly favoring the Northern route...
Navy rescues 16 fishermen as boat engine breaks down in Bay...
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
Members of the Bangladesh Navy rescued 16 fishermen along with their fishing boat after its engine broke down in the Bay of Bengal. The fishermen and the boat, FB Al-Amin, were rescued by naval vessel BNS Kapotakkho near the Mongla Fairway Buoy on Monday while the vessel was conducting a routine patrol in the country’s maritime area, said an ISPR release on Tuesday. The Navy said it received information on Sunday night that a fishing boat had been left drifting in the Bay after its engine broke down, reports UNB. BNS Kapotakkho immediately launched a rescue operation in darkness and located the boat near the Mongla Fairway the following morning despite rough seas and adverse weather conditions. The Navy personnel rescued all 16 fishermen and provided them with food, safe drinking water and first aid. The fishermen said they had set out from Sharankhola in Bagerhat on August 19...
IMO warns piracy surge leaves more than 90 seafarers captive...
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
More than 90 seafarers are now being held by pirates and armed robbers following a resurgence of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and surrounding waters, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez issued an urgent call for their release on Monday following reports that the Seamull had been hijacked on August 20. The latest seizure means six vessels are now being held in the region. Dominguez said the captive seafarers were living under constant threat and uncertainty, with some having limited access to food, fresh water, medical assistance and other essential supplies. “I demand the immediate and unconditional release of all those being held captive,” he said. The IMO warned that the deteriorating security situation requires renewed international attention, particularly as maritime security resources have been stretched by conflicts and attacks affecting shipping elsewhere. Flag and coastal states have been urged to ensure vessels...
Tanker Hit and Disabled Near Strait of Hormuz
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
Overnight Monday, a tanker was hit by a projectile at a position east of the Musandam Peninsula, on the Omani coastal route through the Strait of Hormuz. At about 2025 UTC, the master of an unnamed oil tanker reported that the vessel had been hit, damaging the engine room and disabling the ship. The crew remained safe, according to reporting agency UKMTO; the status of any environmental impacts was not known. The last reported position was about nine nautical miles to the northeast of Ash Shishah, a roadless outpost on the eastern edge of the peninsula. The strike adds to a long tally of damaging attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Gulf. The IMO counts a total of 68 incidents since the conflict in the Gulf began six months ago, averaging about three casualties a week. At least 20 seafarers have been killed, 35...
The third-party manager’s cyber dilemma: How AESM solved it ...
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
Anglo-Eastern Ship Management (AESM) selected CyberOwl to standardise cyber monitoring, incident response, and compliance across its fleet, creating a repeatable operating model for multi-owner management. Third-party ship managers face a cyber security problem most operators don’t: managing vessels for multiple shipowners means navigating conflicting cybersecurity policies, different existing security infrastructure, and competing risk tolerances across a single fleet. Rip-and-replace security solutions alienate owners protective of their existing investments. Bespoke systems for each owner are expensive and operationally complex. But without standardisation, cyber incidents are managed vessel-by-vessel, and there’s no coherent risk narrative for underwriters, charterers, or class societies. Anglo-Eastern Ship Management (AESM), which manages more than 720 vessels for more than a 100 shipowners, has approached this differently. By selecting CyberOwl as its fleet-wide cybersecurity partner, the company has moved cyber monitoring from a per-vessel project into operational infrastructure—a standardised system that works across multiple owners while respecting each...
What Happens Next After the Expiration of the Hormuz MoU?...
posted on: Aug 26, 2026
The maritime community, as it has had to for much of the last six months, is having to work out for itself what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz now that the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States has expired. Contradictory signals abound: messaging from the US administration tends to flip-flop, and the Iranian regime is still split between the pragmatists (led by President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi) and the Paydari-IRGC hardliners (led by Ahmad Vahidi, Mohsen Rezaei and Hossein Taeb), who have gained ascendancy in recent weeks. Disputes between the pragmatists and hardliners within Iran’s political establishment used to be moderated by the Supreme Leader; now the two ruling political factions squabble and contradict each other in public. Nor does it help that Iranian political leaders practice the concepts of taqiyya and tawriya – using lies and deception to hoodwink and...
From Protection to Security: Reassessing Bangladesh’s Maritime Shipping Policy in the Era of a New Merchant Shipping Law...
posted on: Aug 25, 2026
Rear Admiral (Rtd) A S M Abdul Baten, Secretary General Bangladesh Ocean Going Ship Owners’ Association Bangladesh is ingoing a critical period in the development of its maritime legal and economic framework. After more than four decades under the Bangladesh Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1983, the Government is now progressing towards a new Merchant Shipping Act. This legislative transition coincides with a significant expansion of Bangladesh’s private ocean-going fleet, which crossed 100 Bangladesh-flagged vessels in 2024. At the same time, the Bangladesh Flag Vessels (Protection of Interest) Act, 2019 was enacted to strengthen the position of Bangladesh-flagged vessels and replace the earlier 1982 protection ordinance. The coexistence of these developments creates an important policy question: whether Bangladesh’s emerging maritime legal framework will strengthen domestic shipping capacity or unintentionally create regulatory space that disadvantages national ship-owners. This paper argues that maritime legislation should be viewed as an instrument of national economic...
Iran Claims to Have Seized Tanker as It Continues Targeting UAE Shipping...
posted on: Aug 25, 2026
Iranian media is carrying unconfirmed reports on Monday, August 17, that it has detained a tanker linked to the UAE for violations of its rules for the Strait of Hormuz. It comes after the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of last week “strongly condemned and denounced” Iran’s attacks, calling them piracy. Farh News Agency is repeating the reports from Iranian state TV of the seizure without providing the name or details on the tanker. It says the vessel was seized in the Strait of Hormuz for “violating Iranian maritime laws.” It cites the need to follow the Iranian route as one condition and “payment for services and Iran’s permit” as other conditions. The tanker was reportedly taken toward Qeshm Island. The rumors immediately rattled global oil markets, which were already on edge. The price of a barrel of Brent crude futures quickly jumped above $91 a...
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