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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
qatar lng ship
Shipping

Gas Squeeze Has India Requesting Cargoes Not Wanted in 2015

By Debjit Chakraborty and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — The global energy shortage has prompted India to ask Qatar, the world’s biggest supplier of liquefied

October 20, 2021
Total Views: 2890

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Finance

Carnival Sells $2 Billion Junk Bond

By Jack Pitcher and Gowri Gurumurthy (Bloomberg) Carnival Corp. sold a junk bond Tuesday that was increased $2 billion, just over a week after the cash-burning

October 20, 2021
Total Views: 10050

Tuesday, October 19, 2021
durban port harbor deepening
Ship Fires

Transnet Probes Fires That Ignited South African Ports Last Week

By Felix Njini (Bloomberg) Transnet SOC, South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company, is investigating the cause of fires that disrupted bulk

October 19, 2021
Total Views: 1166

Monday, October 18, 2021
offshore wind farm
Offshore

Total Opens UK Offshore Wind Hub in North Sea Oil and Gas Fiefdom

By Francois de Beaupuy (Bloomberg) — TotalEnergies SE opened an offshore wind hub within its existing center for U.K. North Sea oil and gas, the

October 18, 2021
Total Views: 1137

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News

Music, Beer, Wi-Fi At Sea: Managing Morale For Sailors Stuck At Anchor

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) Plenty of things might keep container-ship captain Markus Grote up at night while sailing across the ocean, but lately there’s

October 18, 2021
Total Views: 3351

Sunday, October 17, 2021
shipping container
Ports

Ship Gridlock Stretches Supply Lines Thin

By Kevin Varley (Bloomberg) Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping

October 17, 2021
Total Views: 1937

Saturday, October 16, 2021
Sahand Destroyer. Photo: Iranian Army
Piracy

Iranian Navy Fends Off Pirate Attack On Oil Tanker

By Arsalan Shahla (Bloomberg) –An Iranian warship foiled a pirate attack against one of the country’s oil vessels in the Gulf of Aden following a

October 16, 2021
Total Views: 2968

Friday, October 15, 2021
port of long beach truck gates
Ports

Biden’s Port Crisis Plan Seeks Inland Terminals, More Truckers

By Christopher Palmeri (Bloomberg) — Commitments from shippers and cargo owners to move toward around-the-clock unloading at the docks in Los Angeles

October 15, 2021
Total Views: 1138

Containership Traffic Jam in Southeast Asia Worst Since April
Ports

Containership Traffic Jam in Southeast Asia Worst Since April

By Kevin Varley and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Typhoon Kompasu has resulted in the worst container shipping traffic jam in months, one that now

October 15, 2021
Total Views: 4738

Thursday, October 14, 2021
Christmas Toy Shortages Loom as Cargo Clogs Major UK Port
Ports

Christmas Toy Shortages Loom as Cargo Clogs Major UK Port

By Siddharth Philip and Deirdre Hipwell (Bloomberg) — Sirens blared as cranes lifted containers from the Ever Genius, a ship stretching four times the

October 14, 2021
Total Views: 2053

Wild Weather Sparks Ship Backlog From Shenzhen to Singapore
Ports

Wild Weather Sparks Ship Backlog From Shenzhen to Singapore

By Kyunghee Park and Kevin Varley (Bloomberg) — A tropical storm that’s lashing southern China mixed with Covid-related supply chain snarls is causing

October 14, 2021
Total Views: 1628

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Biden Confronts Supply Chain Crisis Largely Beyond His Grip
Ports

Biden Confronts Supply Chain Crisis Largely Beyond His Grip

By Jennifer Epstein and Josh Wingrove (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is trying to relieve supply chain bottlenecks ahead of the U.S.

October 13, 2021
Total Views: 2156

yantian port china
Shipping

China’s Exports Surged to Record in September as Demand Outweighs Power Crisis

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s exports surged to a new monthly record in September as strong demand ahead of year-end holidays and rising

October 13, 2021
Total Views: 682

Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Maersk Diverts Ships From Busy U.K. Ports Short on Truckers
Shipping

Maersk Diverts Ships From Busy U.K. Ports Short on Truckers

By Brendan Murray and Siddharth Philip (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S said it had to divert some ships from the U.K.’s largest container port

October 12, 2021
Total Views: 2833

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Ports

DP World Pledges $1.7 Billion In African Ports Deal

By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) DP World and CDC Group have formed a partnership to develop ports in Africa and committed to spending $1.72 billion on

October 12, 2021
Total Views: 1322

Tropical Storm Kompasu 2021
Marine Weather

Ports Close In China As Tropical Storm Kompasu Nears

The number of vessels waiting to enter one of the world’s busiest ports jumped to the most since August, threatening to further snarl global supply chains

October 12, 2021
Total Views: 1691

Monday, October 11, 2021
bunkering
Environment

Shipping’s Future Fuels Could Prove a Lucrative Bet for Investors

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — The race to wean shipping off oil and switch to cleaner fuels should prove lucrative for investors and is drawing interest

October 11, 2021
Total Views: 1381

Qatar Gas' LNG FPSO
News

‘Maxed Out’ Qatar LNG Is Unhappy With High Prices

By Simone Foxman (Bloomberg) Qatar, the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, said it’s “unhappy” prices are so high but is producing at

October 11, 2021
Total Views: 2473

Sunday, October 10, 2021
Shipping Delays Throws Book Industry Into Nail Biting Chaos
Shipping

Shipping Delays Throws Book Industry Into Nail Biting Chaos

By Gerry Smith and Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) –Starting in late August, five container ships left China carrying 65,000 copies of

October 10, 2021
Total Views: 3054

Kenya Hints Won’t be Bound By Maritime Border Ruling With Somalia
Shipping News

Kenya Hints Won’t be Bound By Maritime Border Ruling With Somalia

By Helen Nyambura(Bloomberg) -Kenya hinted it won’t be subject to the International Court of Justice’s ruling in a maritime border dispute with

October 10, 2021
Total Views: 2126