By Anthony DiPaola and Deena Kamel Yousef (Bloomberg) — The biggest Middle East oil and container ports banned all vessels sailing to and from Qatar from

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Papua New Guinea-flagged cargo ship Kiunga Chief from entering or using Australian ports for

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has become the latest container shipping line to introduce a cancellation/no-show fee, as carriers appear

Picture this scenario… a chemical tanker laden with caustic soda has lost engine power and is drifting in high winds and seas just 43 nautical miles from

By Roslan Khasawneh and Oleg Vukmanovic SINGAPORE/LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – A campaign by leading Arab powers to isolate Qatar is disrupting trade in

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Maersk, the world’s biggest container shipping line, can no longer transport goods in or out of Qatar after Arab

By Robin M. Mills (Bloomberg Prophets) — Oil markets seem impervious to geopolitical risk. As four Arab neighbors imposed an unprecedented embargo on

Going out on the sea is fun and is one of the most favored recreational pass times. So with a pleasant day in mind, only few people are willing

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change will have no impact on the shipping

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite a near doubling of the number of 13,000 teu-or-above vessels deployed on the transpacific Asia-US west coast

Aberdeen-based Stena Drilling says it has canceled a newbuilding contract for a semi-submersible drilling rig it had on order at South Korea’s Samsung

By Tobin Harshaw (Bloomberg View) — China builds fake islands in the South China Sea. Russia fires missiles into Syria from the Mediterranean and Caspian

By Rania El Gamal DUBAI, June 5 (Reuters) – Ports in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ barred ships flying Qatari flags after the two

By Mohammed Aly Sergie, Tsuyoshi Inajima and Anthony DiPaola (Bloomberg) — Qatar, the world’s biggest seller of liquefied natural gas, can still access

MADRID, June 5 (Reuters) – Some of Spain’s biggest port terminals came to a standstill on Monday as shipping companies redirected cargos to avoid a

By David Tweed and Adrian Leung (Bloomberg) — Ship by ship, port by port, China has over the past two decades been assembling one of the essential

By Peter Levring (Bloomberg) — For Denmark, which relies more on wind energy than any other nation on the planet, Thursday last week was a pretty bad

The Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change puts added pressure on the International Maritime

Tthe Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has published a proposal for modifications to its current toll structure that it says will allow the waterway to continue

NYSE-listed Teekay Tankers (TNK) announced it has agreed to acquire all remaining and outstanding shares of Oslo-listed Tanker Investments (TIL) in a