Lighthouse Shipping Limited

08/10/2017

Driverless cars. Pilotless planes. What about crewless ships?

One solution is low-tech: design.

04/06/2017

Talk about innovation in shipping, this will be the first tunnel allowing cruise and freight ships to pass through solid rock.

Norway has unveiled plans to build the world's first ship tunnel by smashing through a solid rock peninsula.

03/20/2017

The Great Lakes are gettign ready. A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will conduct ice breaking operations in the Drummond Island area

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will conduct ice breaking operations in the Drummond Island area

02/08/2017

Interesting read on Q1 expectations since according to Hellenic Shipping News the first quarter always has an overall lower level of demand than any fourth quarter due to seasonality.

01/17/2017

In October, I attended the World Conference Cities and Ports "Crossovers" Conference in Rotterdam, home to Europe’s largest port.

01/11/2017

A small tanker that ran aground off Cape Breton had no business in the open waters off the Cabot Strait, says a marine industry blogger with knowledge of the ship’s design and history.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A small tanker that ran aground off Cape Breton had no business in the open waters off the Cabot Strait, says a marine industry blogger with knowledge of the ship’s design and history.

01/01/2017

Is it too early to declare the dry bulk woes are formally over?

Is it too early to declare the dry bulk woes are formally over? Shaking off the weakness at the beginning of this year, bulker earnings have been on a slow

12/19/2016

Emerging trends are starting to define the St. Lawrence Seaway's shipping seasons as another nine months of cargo movements come to a close on the Great Lakes-Seaway waterway...

Emerging trends are starting to define the St. Lawrence Seaway's shipping seasons as another nine months of cargo movements come to a close on the Great Lakes-Seaway waterway.

10/15/2016

Happy World Maritime Day! Around the world and across the seas, ports, shipping companies and more than a million seafarers on 50,000-plus merchant ships will be celebrating seaborne trade Thursday on World Maritime Day.

The ships we see anchored off Vancouver’s English Bay are not just part of our spectacular scenery; they represent so much more.

09/06/2016

The newly expanded Panama Canal is opening up new energy trade routes.

08/24/2016

 The first cargo of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) to target the world’s largest energy consumer arrived Monday at |

08/18/2016

Humans At Sea

Humans At Sea

An adjustable liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel tank has been developed which is capable of storing up to five times more LNG than current available models.

06/28/2016

Oakland Votes To Ban Coal Shipments

It will be interesting to see what port the shipments will end up going out of.

Detractors said a project to build a new coal export terminal would've harmed the public.

06/23/2016

Members of the U.K.’s shipping community are concerned about the future of London’s role as a global center of ship financing, brokering and insurance in the case of a British exit from the European Union.

06/18/2016

Humans At Sea

Humans At Sea

The ship was underway when it abruptly changed course and sailed (or drifted) straight into the island.

05/18/2016

Iranian oil tankers have no more obstacles traveling to any port around now that sanctions on the shipping lines have been totally lifted, the managing director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) has said.

05/17/2016

You have to check this out! Pretty amazing what can be tracked these days.

An incredible visualisation of global shipping traffic, created by Kiln.digital and the UCL Energy Institute.