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Friday, April 27, 2018
PHOTOS: Texas City Hosts First Supertanker
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PHOTOS: Texas City Hosts First Supertanker

By Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) — A 2 million barrel-carrying supertanker arrived for the first time at a jetty in Texas City as surging U.S. oil

April 27, 2018
Total Views: 100

Thursday, April 26, 2018
oil tanker at anchor
Shipping News

Lego Wealth Fund Will Exit Tankers Investment After Loss

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — Kirk Kapital, a wealth fund owned by members of the Lego family, will sell its five product tankers after the vessels

April 26, 2018
Total Views: 71

Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Shipping News

Japanese LNG Carrier Takes `First of Many’ U.S. Gas Cargoes in Nod to Trump

By Ryan Collins (Bloomberg) — The giant Japanese gas tanker LNG Sakura is doing its share to appease President Donald Trump’s frustration

April 25, 2018
Total Views: 84

Monday, April 23, 2018
U.S. China Trade War
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U.S. Hints at China Truce as World Warns of Trade-War Threat

By Andrew Mayeda (Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he’s considering a trip to China amid a trade dispute with Beijing that

April 23, 2018
Total Views: 59

Friday, April 20, 2018
Indonesia Turns to Google in War on Illegal Fishing
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Indonesia Turns to Google in War on Illegal Fishing

By Karlis Salna (Bloomberg) — Indonesia’s Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti deals with some dangerous men in her role, but they don’t rattle her.

April 20, 2018
Total Views: 182

Thursday, April 19, 2018
lng carriers in Panama Canal
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Expanded Panama Canal Sees Three LNG Carrier Transits in Single Day

By Ryan Collins and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — Three liquefied natural gas tankers sailed through the Panama Canal on the same day this week, marking

April 19, 2018
Total Views: 50

luna megayacht
News

Russian Billionaire to Lose $492 Million Expedition Yacht in Divorce

By Jonathan Browning (Bloomberg) — A London court ordered the seizure of a luxury $492 million yacht owned by a Russian billionaire as judges sought to

April 19, 2018
Total Views: 466

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Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Globalization has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the biggest, fastest

April 19, 2018
Total Views: 50

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
ships at anchor
News

Limit Sulphur in Shipping Fuel, But No So Fast -Opinion

By Philip K. Verleger (Bloomberg View) — In “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” Ben Franklin imparts a centuries-old proverb about a kingdom lost by a

April 18, 2018
Total Views: 59

Tuesday, April 17, 2018
First Commercial LNG Cargo from U.S. East Coast Sets Sail
Shipping News

First Commercial LNG Cargo from U.S. East Coast Sets Sail

(Bloomberg) – The first export of natural gas from the U.S. East Coast has set sail. Dominion Energy Inc.’s Cove Point terminal in Maryland shipped its

April 17, 2018
Total Views: 33

Monday, April 16, 2018
qe2 final cruise
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QE2 to Open as Floating Hotel in Dubai

By Zainab Fattah (Bloomberg) — The Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner may finally start generating returns for Dubai after the emirate spent $100 million

April 16, 2018
Total Views: 118

Friday, April 13, 2018
atlantic city coast
News

New Jersey Revives Plan for Wind Farm Off Atlantic City Coast

By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Jim Polson and Elise Young (Bloomberg) — New Jersey lawmakers have revived a long-stalled plan to build a wind farm off the coast

April 13, 2018
Total Views: 66

Thursday, April 12, 2018
semisubmersible drilling rig at sea
Shipping News

New Zealand Steps Up Climate Change Fight With Offshore Exploration Ban

By Tracy Withers (Bloomberg) — New Zealand will stop granting offshore oil and gas exploration permits, saying it is committed to playing its

April 12, 2018
Total Views: 29

Tuesday, April 10, 2018
offshore platforms
Offshore

Editorial: Bahrain Shale Find Should Put Oil Market on Notice

By Robin M. Mills (Bloomberg Prophets) — Bahrain discovered the first oil on the Arab side of the Gulf in 1932. It took a long time for the small

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 77

maersk ship
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Maersk Considering Female CFO Amid Gender Gap in Top Management

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is considering hiring its first female chief financial officer, as the century-old

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 92

offshore wind farm
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Offshore Wind Churns Out Big Bank Payoff as Deals Jump to Record

By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — The expanding network of giant windmills in the North Sea — the largest such collection in the world — is

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 1187

Monday, April 9, 2018
Deepwater Wind block island wind farm installation
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The Biggest Problem for Offshore Wind in the United States Might Be the Ports

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — U.S. offshore wind developers have a space problem. Giant windmills with rotors that can stretch as high as 600 feet

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 89

Shell’s Climate Push Fails to Cut Emissions as U.S. Plants Added
Offshore

Shell’s Climate Push Fails to Cut Emissions as U.S. Plants Added

By Kelly Gilblom (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is demonstrating how tough it is for a massive, 100-year-old oil company to become a

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 23

offshore rig north sea
Offshore

Offshore Giant Awakens: Exxon’s Sweetheart Deal in Guyana Sparks IMF Concern as Deepwater Potential Grows

By Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. got such a “favorable” deal from Guyana, home to the biggest new deepwater oil play, that the tiny

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 95

Bosporus Strait Bulker Crash Hits Barley Supply to Top Buyer
Shipping News

Bosporus Strait Bulker Crash Hits Barley Supply to Top Buyer

By Isis Almeida, Cagan Koc and Anatoly Medetsky (Bloomberg) — A ship that crashed into an historic building at Turkey’s Bosporus Strait this weekend

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 93