Maritime news . Week 31
‘Unexciting’ container market sees liner CFOs adjusting full-year forecasts
The outlook for the second half of 2025 in the global container shipping market is shaping up to be a disappointing one, with weak demand, overcapacity, and trade policy turbulence leading liners to rethink their full-year financial outlook. Today saw Japan’s Ocean Network Express revise downwards its projections for the full fiscal year, other lines are likely to follow suit
https://splash247.com/unexciting-container-market-sees-liner-cfos-adjusting-full-year-forecasts/
Emirati Female Ship Captain Launches UAE’s First Digital Maritime Job Platform
The first Emirati Female Ship Captain, Sahar Rasti, has launched the UAE’s first digital platform dedicated to finding jobs in the maritime industry.
It is called Rahaal, which means traveller or nomad in Arabic, and the name was chosen to reflect the nature of the profession that involves constant travel and movement.
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/emirati-female-ship-captain-launches-uaes-first-digital-maritime-job-platform/
Alarming rates of suicides at sea
А new 29-page report from the World Maritime University has some shocking statistics on one of shipping’s darkest topics – suicides at sea.
The report, penned by two professors, Raphaël Baumler and María Carrera‑Arce, looks at both merchant shipping and the fishing industry, highlighting how seafarers have significantly higher suicide rates than other occupations. Studies show suicide accounts for 5.9-7.7% of total seafarer deaths.
https://splash247.com/alarming-rates-of-suicides-at-sea/
Welcome to the future of self-optimising ships
AI will transform tomorrow’s systems to provide self-optimising ships under human supervision, reckons the head of OneLink Performance, a solution that unites a number of performance platforms within one, providing a set of digital services and solutions to the shipping industry.
AI is set to be the biggest transformative shift for maritime with tomorrow’s systems being able to decide and execute, says Pankaj Sharma, a master mariner and managing director of OneLink Performance. “The future is self-optimising ships with human-in-the-loop supervision,” he says.