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A.P. Moller-Maersk is a Danish shipping and logistics conglomerate, one of the world's largest container shipping and supply chain operators.
Brent crude rose more than 5% to over $105 a barrel Thursday as President Trump weighed renewed large-scale strikes on Iran. For operators, the decision sets how far costs climb from here, since diesel and freight had been rising for months before it.
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Maersk bunkered the Tangier Maersk with US corn ethanol from another ship, the first such commercial transfer to a deep-sea container vessel in the US. Turning one transfer into a fuel route that cargo owners can buy against depends on repeat supply in port and on reported ethanol burn.
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Pen Test Partners says ship rules never test onboard IT, and nine years of shipping ransomware has yet to be confirmed on a vessel's own computers. Fleets moving to a single Windows domain can lose every ship's IT to one intrusion.
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ISM respondents and named executives say cost and uncertainty now run above 2020 levels, with diesel at double its March price and global shipping capacity down 15% on Flexport's estimate, while the manufacturing index keeps expanding.
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The canal's water manager reports April-to-August rain running 35.8% below the historical average with no near-term recovery, so schedulers have to treat a lock system whose throughput is set by lake level as a variable into mid-2027.
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Most inland ports on the Rhine are unreachable by barge, average loads have fallen from 1,500 tonnes to 400, and surcharges top 1,000 euros per container.
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The Dubai Tower left Ningbo for Felixstowe as the first sailing of a weekly Northern Sea Route service. The constraints are ice, a thin base rate, and European carriers that pledged not to follow.
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