By Tim Kelly TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Japan’s top three shippers said they will integrate their container shipping operations to create the

By Jonathan N. Crawford (Bloomberg) — A U.S. agency is looking into the impact that a failed rocket launch at billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX site in

By Libby George LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Global oil storage company VTTI launched a new terminal in Croatia on Monday to target oil product demand in

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has applauded the agreement, last Friday, by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to develop a

(BIMCO) – Back in May, BIMCO disclosed a projected “road to recovery” for the dry bulk shipping industry. The main message back then on what the dry

By David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — A business is rarely more than the sum of its parts. That’s a problem for anyone hoping that combining

JAKARTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Indonesia will resume some shipments of coal to the Philippines, a government official said on Sunday, after a months-long

SINGAPORE, Oct 31 (Reuters) – The Singapore government is considering whether to help the city-state’s marine and offshore engineering (M&OE)

The internet once again is buzzing with new loch ness monster theories after the Alaska Bureau of Land Management published this video of a “strange

Thanks to you 2016 has been a banner year for gCaptain with double-digit growth in readership numbers (nearly 5 Million people have read over 20,000

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — Nippon Yusen KK, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s three largest

By Jiyeun Lee, Kanga Kong and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea, home to the world’s three biggest shipbuilders, plans to spend about 11

By Joyce Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) – South Korea said on Monday it plans to establish a state-backed ship financing company with an

by Gareth Hutchens (TheGuardian) The Turnbull government plans to ban asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever being allowed into Australia. The

By Sam Whelan (TheLoadstar) After the supply chain havoc caused by Hanjin Shipping’s collapse, and with an alliance reshuffle on the horizon, should

by Saliou Samb (Reuters) China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) signed a $770 million contract with Guinea’s government on Monday to upgrade the

Today’s Ship Photo Of The Day (SPOTD) shows the platform supply vessel Stril Luna at work in the oil fields off Norway.  When Stril Luna was

By Katie Lange – The US Navy’s newest technologically advanced destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, is the talk of the town throughout the Defense

By Colin Packham (Reuters) Twenty-four countries and the European Union agreed on Friday to create the world’s largest marine park in the Antarctic

By Marta Nogueira (Reuters) – The transportation unit of Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras said on Thursday that it planned