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Saturday, March 27, 2021
Accidents

How a Desert Wind Blew $10 Billion of Global Trade Off Course

By K Oanh Ha, Javier Blas, Salma El Wardany and Mirette Magdy (Bloomberg) — The forecast for Tuesday, March 23, showed wind gusts of more than 40

March 27, 2021
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ever-given Suez stuck ship view from land
Accidents

Smit Bringing in Crane for Suez Box Removal

By Fred Pals , Lucia Kassai , and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) Smit, the salvage company battling to dislodge the ship that’s blocking the Suez Canal said a

March 27, 2021
Total Views: 21866

Friday, March 26, 2021
Shipping News

Sheep Bake Aboard Ships Waiting For Suez Canal To Reopen

By Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) – Of all the millions of tons of cargo that’s piled up in the Suez Canal, none is more delicate than the animals

March 26, 2021
Total Views: 34486

Accidents

Suez Canal Blockage Impacts; Stern Partially Refloated- Updated

By Salma El Wardany and Mirette Magdy (Bloomberg) — The blockage of the Suez Canal is wreaking havoc on global seaborne trade, raising the prospects

March 26, 2021
Total Views: 17357

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Shipbuilding

Orders for Mega Containerships Rise Despite Suez Crisis

How big is too big? By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) A huge container ship blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways has done little to deter shipping

March 25, 2021
Total Views: 2420

Stranded container ship Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, is seen after it ran aground, in Suez Canal
Shipping

Blocked Suez Forces Ships to Look at Long Trip Around Africa

By Alex Longley and Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal showed no signs of budging for a third day,

March 25, 2021
Total Views: 6140

Grounding Incidents

Suez Canal Choked as Elite Salvage Team Tackles Stuck Ship

*Despite having three days to arrange travel, the salvage team is just starting to arrive in Egypt. *”The best chance for returning shipping to normal

March 25, 2021
Total Views: 21087

Finance

The $9.6 Billion A Day Price Of A Suez Stuck Ship

By Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) –A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows there’s about $9.6 billion worth of daily marine traffic halted by the massive

March 25, 2021
Total Views: 22024

Incidents

Tanker Owners Rejoice Then Oil Retreats After Suez Grounding Price Surge

By Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) Oil retreated as traders monitored efforts to dislodge a massive ship blocking the Suez Canal, after two wild days that saw prices

March 25, 2021
Total Views: 4592

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Stranded container ship Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, is seen after it ran aground, in Suez Canal
Grounding Incidents

How To Remove A Ship Stuck In The Suez Canal

By Ann Koh and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) When you can’t shift a ship that’s stuck fast into the wall of a canal that’s vital to world trade, there’s

March 24, 2021
Total Views: 33974

Accidents

Grounded Mega Ship in Suez Canal Paralyzes Trade for Second Day

By Salma El Wardany, Mirette Magdy and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Tugs and diggers have so far failed to dislodge a massive container ship stuck in the

March 24, 2021
Total Views: 39046

Accidents

Suez Canal Blockage May Ripple Through Global Energy Market

By Serene Cheong, Annie Lee and Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) — The blockage of the Suez Canal by a giant container vessel is likely to send ripples of

March 24, 2021
Total Views: 4446

Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Shipping

Maersk Can’t Get Enough Women to Chase Top Management Positions

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The chairman of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Jim Hagemann Snabe, says it’s proving difficult to get enough women to

March 23, 2021
Total Views: 8183

Ports

Worker Strike Looms at Port of Montreal

By Marcy Nicholson and Sandrine Rastello (Bloomberg) — The biggest port in Eastern Canada may be seeing disrupted shipments if dockworkers and their

March 23, 2021
Total Views: 2361

Monday, March 22, 2021
Shipping

U.K. May Include Shipping in New Emissions Trading Platform

By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — The U.K. government is considering whether to include the shipping industry in its new carbon market as it seeks

March 22, 2021
Total Views: 1034

Shipping

Fight Between Commodities Giants and Shippers Leaves Seafarers Stuck at Sea

By Jack Wittels, K Oanh Ha and Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) — A standoff between commodities giants and shipping companies is prolonging the labor crisis at

March 22, 2021
Total Views: 3727

Shipping

Big Ships Snag Unusual Cargoes as Dry Bulk Market Tightens

By Krystal Chia and Ann Ko (Bloomberg) — Shipments of timber and grain are being loaded onto a class of ship normally reserved for other cargo as

March 22, 2021
Total Views: 8471

Sunday, March 21, 2021
gulf of guinea piracy map 2020
Piracy

Denmark To Seek Agreements for West Africa Anti-Piracy Mission

By William Clowes (Bloomberg) — Denmark’s government will negotiate agreements with its West African counterparts following a decision to send a naval

March 21, 2021
Total Views: 3830

Thursday, March 18, 2021
Offshore

How an Offshore Oil Rig Becomes an Artificial Reef

By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — Fifty miles southeast of Grand Isle, La., sits the Lena, which used to be an oil rig owned by ExxonMobil. After the site

March 18, 2021
Total Views: 5671

Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Shipping

Senate Unanimously Confirms Tai as U.S. Trade Representative

(Bloomberg) — Katherine Tai easily won Senate confirmation as U.S. Trade Representative, putting the former congressional staffer at the center of thorny

March 17, 2021
Total Views: 1065