SAINT-NAZAIRE, France, May 31 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he wanted to review the terms of a recent deal to sell a

By Jan Schwartz HAMBURG, Germany, June 1 (Reuters) – German shipping firm Rickmers filed for insolvency on Thursday, a day after its largest lender HSH

  By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump wasn’t exaggerating when he said during his election campaign that the U.S. could

Armed pirates attacked a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, the latest in a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The container businesses of K Line, MOL and NYK will operate under the tradename Ocean Network Express (ONE) from 1

By Serene Cheong, Sharon Cho and Dan Murtaugh (Bloomberg) — Reports of deep-sea drilling’s demise in a world of sub-$100 oil may have been

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway’s biggest bank is done comparing: The downturn in the country’s offshore services market has no precedent.

By Paul Tugwell and Sotiris Nikas (Bloomberg) — The Greek government wants to persuade shipowners and shipping-insurance companies based in London to

FRANKFURT, May 31 (Reuters) – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd confirmed on Wednesday that it is looking to cut up to 12 percent of its almost 11,000

By Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg) — Kinder Morgan Inc.’s setbacks in Canada just got more complicated. British Columbia’s New Democratic and Green

By Reem Shamseddine KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, May 31 (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco plans to build the Gulf’s largest shipyard through a joint venture with

The year’s notable nautical fiction and nonfiction books of 2016-17 as selected by gCaptain’s editors. This list represents books we

Ship designers at Rolls-Royce have unveiled what the company describes as a radical overhaul of its vessel design philosophy aiming to optimize vessel

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines says it has confirmed an average 2% reduction in overall carbon dioxide emissions in live tests of its

May 30 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell to a nearly

By R.T. Watson (Bloomberg) — A second vessel contracted to haul iron ore for Brazilian miner Vale SA was delayed for repairs following the loss of a

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway is seeking greater leeway to restrict foreign ownership of its offshore fields, a move seen to be potentially

ABIDJAN, May 30 (Reuters) – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a 35-year concession agreement with Ivory Coast’s second port of San

FRANKFURT, May 29 (Reuters) – Shareholders of German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd on Monday approved a $400 million rights issue to fund a planned merger

Update Tuesday, 0950 CDT, 31 May 2017: We just got off the phone with U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District office in New Orleans and we were told there are