With hazardous cargo such as oil and gas continuing to dominate the region's sea freight industry, companies must take active measures to reduce the risk of a fire hazard.
After many successful years of managing a shipping agency, United Arab Shipping Agencies Company (UASAC Emirates) has a lesson or two it could teach the region's burgeoning maritime industry.
With growing demand for new vessels in the Middle East, how can builders and buyers unite to ensure shipbuilding contracts are covering their interests?
With US-led regulations looking to enforce a 100% container scanning rule for homeward bound shipments, will the region's ports have to turn to costly technological equipment to avoid delays in container movement?
As a new generation of 11,000 TEU mega ships start trawling international trade lanes, SFME asks how the Middle East's ports will cope with the container handling challenges of the next decade.