By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Although now nearly a quarter of the world’s containership fleet by capacity is fitted with exhaust gas cleaning

A total of 85 crew members have tested positive for COVID-19 on an Alaskan factory trawler operating in the Gulf of Alaska. American Seafoods reports that an

Boston-based Sea Machines says it has raised $15 million in funding with significant participation from Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), America’s

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –The U.K. oil and gas industry says blanket testing of its workers is essential to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks offshore, but the

By Mai Nguyen SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk , the world’s top container shipping firm, said on Wednesday it

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) – Shipping companies are still struggling to get hundreds of thousands of crew members back home after many

Wilhelmsen Ship Management has teamed up with Hamburg-based investment firm MPC Capital by acquiring a 50% stake in Ahrenkiel Steamship, a MPC Capital

By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is seeking bids for up to 4,000 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power 1.5 million

By Arathy S Nair July 21 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp’s surprise $5 billion all-stock deal for oil producer Noble Energy should spell the end of this

Press Release – Innovation Norway has awarded financing to ScanReach for a series of significant development projects to make operations safer, greener

The biennial Posidonia conference has been cancelled due to uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Posidonia is held every other year in Athens,

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, July 21 (Reuters) – Seven months after the United Nations’ shipping agency brought in hotly anticipated new rules to

By Stephen Stapczynski and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) –Liquefied natural gas traders are expected to take a page from the oil market playbook:

By Captain George Livingstone – I have not done a column for a while; it just did not seem I had anything to offer that was more important than

LAGOS, July 20 (Reuters) – Pirates have kidnapped seven Russian sailors from the crew of a ship in the Gulf of Guinea, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria

COPENHAGEN, July 20 (Reuters) – Denmark will allow merchant sailors stranded on the high seas since the outbreak of the coronavirus to come ashore and be

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –At almost any other moment in history, the promise of oil producers pouring millions of barrels of crude to the global

Today’s Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) regulations requires that every ship carry old-school HF radiotelephone and radiotelex

Carnival Corporation has announced the sale of four Holland America Line cruise ships to undisclosed buyers as the world’s leading cruise company sheds

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) –Crude dropped as investors assessed weak economic data and signals that a recovery in consumption may be slowing.