Heidmar’s link-up with Capital shows size matters | Solving crew-change crisis requires a better vaccination programme | Recruitment for maritime must focus on job relevance

Milder Omicron variant seen supporting tanker rates rebound | Alibaba-linked carrier pays premium charter for vintage boxship | Containership demand pushes demolition to record lows

South Korea to fine 23 carriers over alleged price fixing | Torm pledges to meet carbon emission goals by 2025 | Carbon price ‘around $200’ would fully decarbonise shipping — study

Newbuild crude tankers ‘trading clean’ signal dismal spot earnings | Yang Ming to order neo-panamax quintet | MPC Capital orders methanol-ready quartet at Hanjin

Making charterers pay for carbon is a first step. Now for all the others | Creditors seek DSME owner after EU rejects Hyundai merger | Signs of life detected among European shipping banks | Maersk Tankers’ transition to commercial manager shifts focus from ships to people

Owners with upper hand keep boxship charter rates at record highs | Green lobby seeks harder deadline as shipowners hail carbon market win | EU rejects South Korea shipyard merger | Overdue crew levels at record lows

Rising infections prompt warning over new crew-change crisis | Port congestion leading to increasing equipment imbalance | Maersk brings forward decarbonisation goal

Tanker scrapping key to profitability — or market recovery further delayed | Indonesia resumes coal exports under stricter controls | Maersk warns port congestion is continuing to impact supply chains

Scrapping slumps on dry bulk and boxship rates boom | Korea Shipbuilding wins fresh orders worth $1.1bn | Unipec dominates crude tanker spot market

MSC and Maersk: When biggest is no big deal | Capital Ship tankers join Heidmar pools via joint venture | China’s Hudong-Zhonghua secures $1.4bn LNG carrier order

Indonesia partly lifts coal export ban | Is it finally time for box FFAs? | Few signs of supply chain relief in the new year | Iran-Russia crude trade re-starts | Dry bulk markets state of uncertainty set to continue

Mediterranean Shipping Co becomes top container line | Indonesia may resume coal exports this week | Around 140 bulkers at anchor off Indonesia

LNG carrier rates slump as much as 40% on falling Europe gas prices | Ningbo port clogged by lockdown measures | Indonesia may relax coal export ban

Indonesia could boost coal exports | Covid infections in China hit Ningbo port and Yangtze River pilot services | FMC starts investigating two box lines’ detention and demurrage fees | Congested Californian container ports seek to ease traffic flows

Tanker freight derivative trading falls 14% in 2021 | Capesizes pull back on China’s steel output slump | Sustainable shipping is a study in ‘imagineering’

Why Maersk is paying a premium to expand into land-based logistics in Asia | Maersk to acquire Hong Kong-based LF Logistics for $3.6bn | Container lines spend big to switch focus from ships to shore