Shipping International (News)
Pioneering Online Maritime Journalism
AAJS entered the emerging World Wide Web in 1995, long before the internet became part of everyday business. Operating from Houston, Texas, we hosted our own servers over a dedicated 128 kb IDSL connection and began building what would become one of the maritime industry’s earliest independent digital publishing platforms.
From here we started a new site named Shipping International – The Maritime Net Magazine bringing shipping news from around the world based on contribution from editors in Europe and far east including Singapore and Bangkok.
Next was creation of ShipYard International where close to 400 shipyards worldwide listed in the database – highly used and appreciated . It could be reached directly by accessing the site and the database making it easy find the shipyard information needed for your repair or dry docking project. All important information, like berthing docks; floating docks or graving docks, cranes, repair facilities and workshops including tools and the capacities.
Later we added our ShipBoard International – a dynamic message board that became very popular and included quite a few cargo leads, jobs and open tonnage posted, — and the best, it’s free for everyone to use – All our sites where free to use without any login requirements!
Now we start first under our Heritage Menu with some parts from Shipping International – The Maritime New Magazine – and much more will be added here to the site.
Heritage Archive Portal: The blueprint graphic below displays our original digital platform exactly as it stood on February 1, 1999, broadcasting from Houston, Texas. To preserve this historical layout natively without altering its original design, we have restored these heritage files onto an isolated, authentic subdirectory environment at arc.aajs.com.
1996–2026 • Three Decades of Independent Digital Maritime Intelligence