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Gas Carrier Sizes Explained — LNG, LPG, VLGC and the Rest
Gas carriers are named by capacity, not by a canal — VLGC just means Very Large Gas Carrier. But the canal constraint did not disappear when it left the name. Part of the LPG fleet is built to fit the original Panama locks and part is not, and whether a ship holds its cargo under pressure or under refrigeration is decided almost entirely by how big it is.
Panama Is Buying Draft With Transits. Someone Is Paying For It.
On 20 August the Panama Canal postponed two scheduled draft reductions and cut daily transit slots instead. These are not two pieces of news — draft is a depth problem, transits are a water-budget problem, and only one can be spent to fix the other. The trade moves the cost from cargo holds to the auction, and the two bills land on entirely different businesses.
Six Marks on the Hull — Why a Ship Loads Deeper in Singapore Than in January
Every hull carries a disc and six lines. They decide how much cargo the ship may legally load, and the answer changes with the season, the sea and where she is going. What TF, F, T, S, W and WNA mean, and why one of them applies only to smaller ships.
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Original analysis, explainers, and market commentary from the Fairtech editorial desk — covering the regulations, routes, and market shifts that move shipping economics.
How Ships Weigh Cargo Without a Scale — Draft Survey Explained
Nobody weighs a Capesize cargo. The bill of lading figure comes from six draft readings, a hydrostatic table and arithmetic. How draft survey works, why midship carries six-eighths of the answer, and where the disputes live.
SCNT and PC/UMS — Why Suez and Panama Don't Use Your Ship's Certified Tonnage
SCNT and PC/UMS explained: why Suez bills on 1873 rules, why Panama built its own system, and why the same ship pays on different numbers at each canal.
MV, MT, MS — Every Commercial Ship Prefix in 5 Minutes
MV, MT, MS, LNG/C — every commercial ship prefix explained with real examples from fixture recaps and Bills of Lading. Practical guide for shipping professionals.
The Ship That's Half-Standardized — Where Global Shipbuilding Unified, and Where It Didn't
A modern ship's hull is standardized worldwide — same steel grades, same welding rules, same safety systems. But the tools and fittings inside the engine room still carry the fingerprints of whichever national industries supplied its engines and components. Why is one layer fully unified and the other one not?
The Geography of Ship Repair — Where 12,000 Ships Head Every Year
Every large commercial ship returns to a repair yard on a 5-year regulatory cycle. In 2026 more than 12,000 vessels are due — and half of all dry-dockings happen in just three countries.
FuelEU Maritime — The Regulation That Measures What You Burn, Not How Much
The EU's FuelEU Maritime regulation completed its first compliance cycle in June 2026. Every ship above 5,000 GT calling at an EU port now carries a GHG intensity score — not on how much fuel it burned, but on how carbon-intensive that fuel was across its full lifecycle. The first year's 2% target was soft enough that most of the global fleet could meet it without changing fuel. The 2030 target of 6% will not be.
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