By Keith Wallis Sept 8 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) on Asian routes may have found a floor this week as a

Sept 8 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, jumped to an over

By Delana Isles PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove

By Captain George Livingstone – Some stories are worth telling over, this is one.  Perhaps the reader will recall a rather spectacular international

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. government watchdog said on Thursday that more than a third of U.S. Navy ships based out of Japan had expired

The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) has established a Maritime Security Transit Corridor to protect merchant ships off the Horn of Africa in response to recent

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its investigation report into the August 2016 grounding of semi-submersible drilling rig

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – European shippers are calling for “solutions not fights” to the continuing congestion at Antwerp and

By Heesu Lee, Ann Koh and Laura Blewitt (Bloomberg) — Some traders who rushed to hire ships to send fuel from Asia to the U.S. after Hurricane Harvey are

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities thwarted the hijacking of a Thai oil tanker on Thursday and arrested 10 suspected Indonesian

Sept 7 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, touched a near 5-month

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Irma has ripped a path of misery through the Caribbean and is aiming at Florida, but the first seed for its monster

By Scott Malone SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic on Thursday after devastating a string of

FRANKFURT, Sept 7 (Reuters) – German shipping group Rickmers, which filed for insolvency in June, said on Thursday its ship management unit had the

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the cargo handling system and cargo tanks for a new 3000 cubic metre capacity LNG bunker barge. The vessel will be

Drone footage of the T.S. Kennedy’s departure today to provide relief for hurricane victims.  Today, under the command of Captain Joseph S. Murphy,

Having your brand displayed across the top of over 48,000 Maritime Professionals’ email inboxes is possibly the most powerful place to obtain brand

Some amazing footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Irma filmed aboard NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft. The videos were captured Tuesday morning during a

German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has laid the keel for the first of Carnival Corporation’s seven new next-generation cruise ships that will be

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has awarded a total of $9.8 million to 18 U.S. small shipyards to help pay for