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Sunday, July 17, 2022
Nord Stream Facility
Offshore

German Says Gas Prices May Have Stalled

By Alexey Anishchuk (Bloomberg) –The risk of a cutoff in Russian gas supplies appears to be fully priced by the market, the head of Germany’s top

July 17, 2022
Total Views: 2621

Saturday, July 16, 2022
Fertilizer Inflation Forces Overhaul of Brazil Ports, Railways
Ports

Fertilizer Inflation Forces Overhaul of Brazil Ports, Railways

(Bloomberg) –Brazil’s heavy dependence on fertilizer imports is leading to a major upgrade of the nation’s ports, railways and distribution centers.

July 16, 2022
Total Views: 3042

Friday, July 15, 2022
A satellite image shows a closeup of bulk carrier ship loading grain at the port of Sevastopol, Crimea May 19, 2022
Shipping

Crimea Shipping Surge Points to Stealing of Ukraine Grain

By Áine Quinn (Bloomberg) — The Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea is shipping more than 50 times the volume of food it usually does at this time

July 15, 2022
Total Views: 1497

Riverboat Casino
News

Abortion At Sea? Riverboat Casinos May Provide A Loophole To US Supreme Court Ruling

By Kelsey Butler (Bloomberg) To solve the problem of abortion access, Meg Autry is seeking inspiration from an unlikely source: riverboat casinos. 

July 15, 2022
Total Views: 3313

Thursday, July 14, 2022
Silver Cloud Cruise Ship London
Cruise Ships

Cruise Ship Billionaire Stuck In Family Feud

By Luca Casiraghi (Bloomberg) A luxury cruise firm, a disputed family inheritance, and a Monaco-based tycoon fighting to protect his fortune. It sounds like

July 14, 2022
Total Views: 10521

Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Progress Reported in Ukrainian Grain Export Talks
Shipping

Progress Reported in Ukrainian Grain Export Talks

By Beril Akman, Megan Durisin and Daryna Krasnolutska (Bloomberg) — Negotiations over unblocking millions of tons of Ukraine’s grain exports were

July 13, 2022
Total Views: 1628

White House Keeping Distance from Critical Rail and Dockworker Labor Talks For Now
Ports

White House Keeping Distance from Critical Rail and Dockworker Labor Talks For Now

By Augusta Saraiva and Ngai Yeung (Bloomberg) — The White House is monitoring labor talks in the logistics industry as unions representing 115,000 rail

July 13, 2022
Total Views: 1413

Monday, July 11, 2022
Oil Barges Short Sea Ship Fuel To Berlin
Shipping News

Oil Barges Short Sea Ship Fuel To Berlin

By Rachel Graham (Bloomberg) Eastern Germany is resorting to getting barge loads of fuel all the way from the North Sea oil port of Rotterdam as the nation

July 11, 2022
Total Views: 2703

Germany Offshore Wind Farm
Environment

Wind, Solar And Pipelines All Fail Germany

By Rachel Morison (Bloomberg) Short-term German power prices more than doubled as calm weather and the expected halt of gas flows on the Nord Stream pipeline

July 11, 2022
Total Views: 45154

LNG terminal in Barcelona, Spain
News

The ESG Hypocrisy Of Shipping LNG To Europe

Is shipping LNG from Africa to Europe a proper Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) step towards sustainability or is it a new form of colonialism? By

July 11, 2022
Total Views: 3129

Sunday, July 10, 2022
Jeff Bezos Won’t Dismantle Historic Rotterdam Bridge
News

Jeff Bezos Won’t Dismantle Historic Rotterdam Bridge

By Pablo Fernandez Cras (Bloomberg) A historic Rotterdam bridge that needed to be dismantled for billionaire Jeff Bezos’s new superyacht will be left intact

July 10, 2022
Total Views: 10146

Saturday, July 9, 2022
Trucks At Port Of LA
Ports

California Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains

By Augusta Saraiva and Ngai Yeung (Bloomberg) –About 70,000 truck owner-operators who form the bedrock of California’s transport industry are in

July 9, 2022
Total Views: 3962

Friday, July 8, 2022
Russian Superyachts Keep Clear Of The French Riviera
News

Russian Superyachts Keep Clear Of The French Riviera

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) The French Riviera is looking slightly different this summer: the Russian superyachts that can usually be spotted gliding across its

July 8, 2022
Total Views: 3978

a ship passes below a bridge on the Rhine River
Shipping News

Low River Levels May Deepen Europe’s Energy Crunch

By Todd Gillespie (Bloomberg) Water levels on Europe’s Rhine River are again dwindling — and this time it’s at the risk of the continent’s efforts

July 8, 2022
Total Views: 3293

Thursday, July 7, 2022
Ukraine Grain Train Loading
Ports

Danube Port Links To Ukraine Grain Train

By Andra Timu and Irina Vilcu (Bloomberg) Romania reopened a Soviet-era rail link connecting its Danube River port of Galati to Ukraine a month earlier than

July 7, 2022
Total Views: 2145

Russian-flagged oil tanker Pegas docked in Greece.Picture taken January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
Ports

Black Sea Oil Port Halts On Russian Court Order

By Sherry Su (Bloomberg) A Russian court order to halt oil loadings from a port in the Black Sea has unnerved European crude traders already reeling from the

July 7, 2022
Total Views: 2334

Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Stacked containers are shown as ships unload their cargo at the Port of Los Angeles
Shipping

Labor Unrest Disrupts Supply Chains From Sea to Sky

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Each wave of supply shock to hit the global economy during the pandemic seems to produce a different scapegoat.

July 6, 2022
Total Views: 1680

Tuesday, July 5, 2022
trump tariffs on china
Finance

Biden May Start Easing Trumps’ China  Trade Tariffs

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) Senior US and Chinese officials discussed US economic sanctions and tariffs Tuesday amid reports the Biden administration is

July 5, 2022
Total Views: 1595

Europe Needs More LNG & Coal Ships ASAP
News

Europe Needs More LNG & Coal Ships ASAP

By Elena Mazneva (Bloomberg) European natural gas prices rose to the highest level in almost four months on persistent supply concerns amid the worst energy

July 5, 2022
Total Views: 4892

China USA Chess Pieces
Ports

Goodbye China, Hello Deglobalization – Shipping Woes Push USA Factory Boom

American executives are working to deglobalize production in the wake of port bottlenecks, parts shortages, port lockdowns, collapsing Chinese demographics,

July 5, 2022
Total Views: 51005