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Monday, May 10, 2021
Ports

Parking Lot In The Pacific Persists As Imports Jam U.S. Ports

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) Ship congestion outside the busiest U.S. gateway for trade with Asia persisted over the past week amid a steady flow of imports

May 10, 2021
Total Views: 2465

Shipping

Colonial Pipeline CEO Privately Warns States of Fuel Shortages

By Ari Natter (Bloomberg) — The leader of the company whose fuel pipeline was paralyzed by a cyber attack warned state officials in a private meeting

May 10, 2021
Total Views: 5176

News

Tanker Traders Jockey For Position As Colonial Pipeline Fights Hackers For A Third Day

The ocean-going tanker Pacific Jasper that had been taking gasoline toward the U.S. Gulf stopped on its voyage and is now stationed east of the Bahamas. If the

May 10, 2021
Total Views: 4150

Shipping News

China Bans Some Australian LNG Cargoes

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) At least two of China’s smaller liquefied natural gas importers have been told to avoid buying new cargoes from Australia,

May 10, 2021
Total Views: 11126

Sunday, May 9, 2021
Shipping

Oil Traders Work to Avert Shortages After Cyberattack on Major U.S. Pipeline

By Sheela Tobben and Jeffrey Bair (Bloomberg) — The shutdown of America’s largest fuel pipeline after a cyberattack is threatening to send gasoline

May 9, 2021
Total Views: 4310

Shipping

Egypt Offers to Cut Ever Given Compensation Claim to $600 Million

By Abdel Latif Wahba (Bloomberg) Egypt offered to reduce claims by a third for compensation from owners of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in

May 9, 2021
Total Views: 19760

Saturday, May 8, 2021
Maritime Security

New York Needs Tankers ASAP After Pipeline Cyber Attack

Traders are seeking product tankers and barges to deliver gasoline that would have otherwise been shipped on the Colonial pipeline that was crippled by a

May 8, 2021
Total Views: 5744

Friday, May 7, 2021
offshore wind farm
Offshore

How an Oil Company Becomes a Renewables Company

By Nathaniel Bullard (Bloomberg) — Last week a raft of oil majors released their first-quarter results, with companies like Royal Dutch Shell

May 7, 2021
Total Views: 5950

Shipping News

Crew Change Crisis 2.0 Shows Signs of Worsening Amid India Virus Surge

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) Hundreds of thousands of seafarers risk being stuck at sea beyond the expiry of their contracts because of India’s surging

May 7, 2021
Total Views: 2033

Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Shipping

Retail Brands Pledge Supply Chain Audit to Help Seafarers Stranded by COVID-19

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) — Unilever Plc and other big retail brands are among consumer giants adopting a toolkit to audit their shipping supply chains

May 5, 2021
Total Views: 1416

Shipping

Biden Trade Chief Pledges to Build Off Trump’s China Agreement

By Eric Martin (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s chief trade negotiator pledged to build off the deal with China reached under Donald Trump and said

May 5, 2021
Total Views: 1262

Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Shipping

Egyptian Judge Rejects Appeal for Release of Ever Given

By Salma El Wardany (Bloomberg) — An Egyptian court upheld a ruling preventing the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal from leaving the

May 4, 2021
Total Views: 6102

Monday, May 3, 2021
Navy

Philippines Slams China’s ‘Dangerous’ Move

By Andreo Calonzo (Bloomberg) The Philippines has protested China’s “dangerous maneuver” against its Coast Guard that patrolled and trained last month

May 3, 2021
Total Views: 6206

Shipping News

Sea Cargo Chaos Intensifies In The Summer Of Sold-Out Ships

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) Container shipping rates are heading higher again, driven to new heights by unrelenting consumer demand and company restocking

May 3, 2021
Total Views: 13638

Navy

Aircraft Carrier Shandong Deploys To South China Sea

(Bloomberg) –China has sent its Shandong aircraft carrier for military training in the South China Sea and plans to continue similar exercises, the

May 3, 2021
Total Views: 6012

Sunday, May 2, 2021
Navy

Royal Navy Sends A Strong Warning To China

By Admiral James Stavridis (Bloomberg Opinion) Throughout my U.S. Navy career, I loved to operate at sea with the British Royal Navy. U.K.

May 2, 2021
Total Views: 111962

Saturday, May 1, 2021
Cruise Ships

Effort to Bring Cruises Back to Alaska Is Delayed as Senators Wrangle

By Lillianna Byington (Bloomberg Government) — Efforts to revive cruises to Alaska as the pandemic eases have exposed divisions among U.S. lawmakers,

May 1, 2021
Total Views: 4529

Thursday, April 29, 2021
Shipping

Soy-Shipping Turmoil Deepens With Argentine Minister’s Death

By Jonathan Gilbert (Bloomberg) — Argentine farmers struggling to ship their crops through increasingly shallow rivers may soon face a new obstacle: One

April 29, 2021
Total Views: 2685

Cruise Ships

Cruise Shares Rise as CDC Outlines Quicker Path to Sailing’s Return

By Jonathan Levin (Bloomberg) — Cruise shares advanced after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined a new path to the resumption

April 29, 2021
Total Views: 2280

FILE PHOTO: General view of the Walney Extension offshore wind farm operated by Orsted off the coast of Blackpool, Britain
Offshore

Wind Power Giant’s Profit Hit by Rocks on the Seabed

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Building power plants in the middle of the sea was never going to be easy. The world’s largest developer of offshore

April 29, 2021
Total Views: 6989