By Ed McNamara, CEO of Cleveland-based port insurance broker Armada Risk Partners The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to pose increasingly serious threats to American shipping, coastal ports, and surrounding
By Oren Saar, CEO of Agwa The maritime industry is investing heavily in digitalization, decarbonization, and operational efficiency – and rightly so. But there’s a quieter, yet well-known issue playing out across
By René Fredriks, Managing Director, Trelleborg Marine & Infrastructure As global shipbuilding powerhouses ramp up capacity and innovation, U.S. shipbuilding finds itself at a critical moment. With over 100,000 American jobs and
By Joe Weinand, industrial lubrication specialist, Chevron Behind every successful marine operation lies an increasingly complex challenge: meeting increasingly stringent environmental standards for hydraulic fluids without sacrificing performance. Operators are under pressure
By Simon de Burgh Codrington, Managing Director, Risk Strategies The marine insurance industry continues to navigate uncertain waters in 2025. Prices in the global marine cargo market are starting to ease. Importers
By D. Terry Greenfield, Principal Consultant, CONSULEX The United States is embarking on one of the most ambitious shipbuilding revivals in recent history, driven by growing global maritime competition, renewed investments in
By Josephine Le, founder of The Hood Platform Over the past 30 years, we have witnessed first-hand the global embrace of digitalization. Things that were once physical and paper-based are now electronic,
By Royce Lowe, All Metals & Forge Group LLC Working with an experienced supplier of open die forgings, seamless and contoured rolled rings, and complex forged parts that prioritizes the “end use”
AI might be everywhere but Glueckstadt, Germany-headquartered Condition Monitoring Technologies GmbH ( CMT) is cautioning against placing sole reliance on artificial intelligence in ship condition monitoring. It says that human expertise remains
By Jonathan Strachan, Chief Technical Officer, Houlder The shipping industry is navigating uncharted waters as it confronts the complex challenge of decarbonization. A recent qualitative survey by Houlder, the London-based design and