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Sunday, February 16, 2020
Global Trade Turmoil as Ships Skip China
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Global Trade Turmoil as Ships Skip China

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — February 2020 will come to be remembered as a period of historic disruption to physical supply chains the world over,

February 16, 2020
Total Views: 132

Friday, February 14, 2020
Big Oil Warned Trump Team China Trade Deal Was Unrealistic
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Big Oil Warned Trump Team China Trade Deal Was Unrealistic

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Shawn Donnan and Nick Wadhams (Bloomberg) – Industry leaders privately warned the Trump administration that the U.S. will

February 14, 2020
Total Views: 81

Thursday, February 13, 2020
After Year at Sea, Oil Caught in Venezuelan Tug-Of-War Finally Docks
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After Year at Sea, Oil Caught in Venezuelan Tug-Of-War Finally Docks

By Lucia Kassai (Bloomberg) — An oil tanker caught in the crosshairs of the political battle for control of Venezuela is discharging its cargo after a

February 13, 2020
Total Views: 109

Monday, February 10, 2020
Ship Designer Denies Selling Hydrogen-Powered Yacht to Bill Gates
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Ship Designer Denies Selling Hydrogen-Powered Yacht to Bill Gates

(Bloomberg) — Billionaires are the only plausible buyers of the 112-meter superyacht concept Aqua, given its reported 500 million pound ($650 million)

February 10, 2020
Total Views: 200

general cargo bulk ship
News

Shipping Gets Smashed by Coronavirus in More Ways Than One

By Alex Longley and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) — The shipping industry tends to do badly when Chinese demand disappoints, but the outbreak of the

February 10, 2020
Total Views: 55

Friday, February 7, 2020
lng ship
News

China LNG Force Majeure Rejected as Virus Chaos Sparks Dispute

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — Two of Europe’s biggest energy companies rejected a Chinese force majeure on liquefied natural gas contracts in

February 7, 2020
Total Views: 67

Thursday, February 6, 2020
U.S. Navy Swaps Sub for Destroyer in 2021 Budget Request Shift
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U.S. Navy Swaps Sub for Destroyer in 2021 Budget Request Shift

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The Pentagon is bolstering the number of warships the Navy will seek in its fiscal 2021 budget request after the White

February 6, 2020
Total Views: 296

dry bulk ship, bulker
News

Commodity Shipping Faces ‘Crisis in Demand’ on Virus Outbreak

By Krystal Chia and Haidi Lun (Bloomberg) — The global commodity-shipping industry faces an extremely challenging quarter as the impact of the

February 6, 2020
Total Views: 57

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Coronavirus Fears Hit U.S. Gas Exporters
Shipping News

Coronavirus Fears Hit U.S. Gas Exporters

(Bloomberg) — A grim situation for U.S. natural gas exporters has gotten even worse as the coronavirus outbreak sends global prices plunging on concern

February 5, 2020
Total Views: 79

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
shutterstock_1081936637 containership
Shipping News

Virus Fears Prompt Shipping Restraints on Vessels From China

By Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) — Vessels and trains coming from China are in focus as nations take steps to halt the spread of a deadly coronavirus that

February 4, 2020
Total Views: 60

Friday, January 31, 2020
dry bulk vessel
Shipping News

Coronavirus Hammers Bulk Shipping

(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than freight.

January 31, 2020
Total Views: 103

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
New Study Casts Shadow on LNG Fuel’s Climate Footprint
Shipping News

New Study Casts Shadow on LNG Fuel’s Climate Footprint

By Jack Wittels and Akshat Rathi – (Bloomberg) –One of the shipping industry’s great hopes for improving its environmental performance —

January 28, 2020
Total Views: 79

A support vessel is seen next to a wind turbine at the Walney Extension offshore wind farm operated by Orsted off the coast of Blackpool, Britain
Offshore

Offshore Wind Megaprojects to Get EU Support in Push for Green Power

By Reed Landberg and Ewa Krukowska – (Bloomberg) –Developers for some of the world’s biggest wind farms are poised to get a boost from the

January 28, 2020
Total Views: 56

Friday, January 24, 2020
MAN Energy Solutions MAN 20V35/44G
Engineering News

VW Struggles With Sale of MAN Energy Solutions

By Aaron Kirchfeld (Bloomberg) Volkswagen AG is disappointed with the offers so far for its MAN Energy Solutions division, which makes diesel engines for ships

January 24, 2020
Total Views: 891

Thursday, January 23, 2020
lng carrier
Shipping News

Gas Export’s Dirty Secret: A Carbon Footprint Rivaling Coal’s

By Catherine Traywick, Stephen Cunningham, Naureen Malik and Dave Merrill (Bloomberg) –In May, while President Donald Trump toured a new $10 billion

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 122

The Next Big Thing in Luxury Cruising is Small Ships
Shipping News

The Next Big Thing in Luxury Cruising is Small Ships

By Fran Golden (Bloomberg) –One of the biggest trends in high-end cruising is extremely small. It’s the opposite, in some ways, of everything you’d

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 961

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Mumbai Maersk Containership
Shipping News

Maersk Raises Bunker Surcharge as Fuel Costs Spiral

By Firat Kayakiran and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –The world’s largest container shipping line is hiking up a fuel surcharge that it imposes to transport

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 277

container shipping
Shipping News

Container Lines Raising Rates to Offload Clean Fuel Cost

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) –Container-shipping companies, some of the biggest polluters of the world’s oceans, are managing to pass higher costs onto

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 47

Floating Wind Farm Developer Seeks New Funding for Bigger Scale
Shipping News

Floating Wind Farm Developer Seeks New Funding for Bigger Scale

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –One of the most advanced developers of the growing floating wind farm business, Principle Power Inc., is seeking to raise

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 540

Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Oil tanker British Heritage sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul
Shipping News

Canal Istanbul: Choppy Waters For Turkey’s Latest Megaproject

By Sinan Ulgen (Bloomberg Opinion) –Could a new infrastructure project shape the future of Turkish politics? That is one of the questions surrounding

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 326