EC Premier leads investment and maritime mission to Italy, Greece Eastern Cape Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane is leading a high-level government and business delegation on an official working visit ...

Global economic growth forecasts are relatively optimistic for 2026, but a freight shipping expert tells CNBC the frontloading of shipments related to President Trump tariff's may be skewing the ...

We introduce a nowcasting model of global maritime trade, leveraging satellite-based big data on vessel movements. This provides a timely indicator of global trade as shipping accounts for about 80 ...

Maritime transportation moves about 80 percent of what the world’s economy needs to function. The historical relationship between global GDP growth and maritime trade has been consistent and does not ...

Global trade relies on a small set of maritime chokepoints—geographic bottlenecks through which much of the world’s energy, food, and goods must pass. When these routes function, they enable speed and ...

The ongoing Red Sea crisis, marked by Houthi attacks on commercial and naval vessels, has severely disrupted global trade and caused significant economic losses. Traditional military responses may not ...

Following Nigeria’s participation at the recently concluded Abu Dhabi Sustainability, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, has received the Consul-General of ...

They are known as ‘choke points,’ the canals and rivers through which the world’s trade is transported by ships of all kinds and sizes. And suddenly they are under threat. In fact, two kinds of threat ...

The John Dramani Mahama administration is advancing plans to introduce a coastal water transport system along Ghana’s shoreline as part of broader efforts to reduce pressure on the country’s road ...