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By Manisha Jha (Bloomberg) — Investors betting that China’s near- insatiable appetite for industrial raw materials will drive global economic growth

By David Wethe (Bloomberg) — The relatively unheralded corner of the oil sector that sends supply boats out to offshore oil rigs may see bankruptcies as

By Kyunghee Park and Joyce Koh (Bloomberg) — CMA CGM SA’s S$3.38 billion ($2.4 billion) takeover of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. offers two advantages for

By Selcan Hacaoglu (Bloomberg) — Turkey released three of four Russian ships that it detained this month at a Black Sea port for maritime safety

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Russian oil companies OAO Rosneft and Lukoil PJSC were among 26 explorers to apply for blocks in Norway’s new licensing

By Naomi Christie and Manisha Jha (Bloomberg) — Oil tanker rates soared to the highest in seven years amid an acceleration in the number of bookings and

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway is holding talks with Russia on rules for seismic studies of oil and gas fields on each side of their maritime

Federal prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges against BP’s two top employees on the Transocean oil rig Deepwater Horizon that blew up in 2010, the

By Joyce Koh (Bloomberg) — CMA CGM SA, the world’s No. 3 container shipping company, is in talks with lenders to finance its potential takeover bid for

by Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) Transocean Ltd., the biggest offshore-rig operator, won a contract to drill four wells off Norway for Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was ordered to pay almost $160 million for its role as part-owner of the doomed Gulf of Mexico well that in 2010 caused the biggest

The Pacific Ocean is warm. Very warm. Last week, NOAA‘s U.S. Climate Prediction Center announced temperatures reached 3 degrees Celsius

By Jasmine Ng (Bloomberg) — Most-active iron ore futures in Singapore sank below $40 a metric ton for the first time on concern that the economic

by Lily Nonomiya  (Bloomberg) Japan plans to renew its research hunt for whales in the Antarctic, ending an almost two-year hiatus prompted by an

By Dulue Mbachu (Bloomberg) — Nigeria is investigating the abduction of five Polish crew members after their vessel was attacked by gunmen in the

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The top-ranked analyst covering A.P. Moeller-Maersk has turned bullish on the stock. Investors who listened to Frans

   by Carol Matlack (Bloomberg) – As Europe hastens to find housing for a tidal wave of refugees, some countries

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Seadrill Ltd., the offshore driller controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen, reported its first quarterly loss since

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. surged to its highest in almost seven months in Singapore trading after Southeast Asia’s

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — The number of Norwegian offshore vessels with nothing to do has gone from zero to 100 in just a year. And the woes are