Four crew remain missing from the Singapore-flagged Wan Hai 503, as efforts to contain blazes onboard continue 

Lloyd’s List’s editor-in-chief Richard Meade brings you the behind-the-scenes chatter from Nor-Shipping 2025, where many in the industry are more optimistic about the future, despite the increasing geopolitical chaos around them

Tehran’s outflows remain robust, despite Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign; While US tariffs weakened North American imports, Asian exports remained strong, especially to Europe; The Panama Maritime Authority has substantially reduced its share of the Iran-trading fleet over the past 18 months, but US pressure group UANI says it is still complicit in facilitating Iran’s oil export

The IMO will announce two new industry alliances at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, which officially opened today

The View from Oslo this week finds shipping executives bullish in the face of geopolitical turmoil, stoically sailing into a new world order of superpower rivalry, but still unclear on how to move forward with decarbonisation

The new subsidiary aims to leverage China’s green fuel production and Hong Kong’s maritime hub status to support global shipping decarbonisation