U.S. Navy Moves to Simplify Littoral Ship Operations Amid Flaws
By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Confronted with equipment breakdowns and harried crews, the U.S. Navy is moving to simply and stabilize operations of its
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By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Confronted with equipment breakdowns and harried crews, the U.S. Navy is moving to simply and stabilize operations of its
By Kyunghee Park and Sohee Kim (Bloomberg) — More than a week after South Korea’s biggest container line filed for bankruptcy protection and
By Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — For centuries, a harsh climate and ice-choked seas dashed the dreams of sailors attempting to cross the Canadian
by Anthony Capaccio (Bloomberg) Donald Trump is proposing an Army as big as the one President George W. Bush sent into Iraq and Afghanistan and a Navy with
By Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — For the first time since early 2014, the dollar value of goods imported and exported by the G20 countries actually grew
By David Fickling and Rani Molla (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Here’s some good news for the hard-pressed shipping industry: Of the top 15 container lines
by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest smartphone maker, said about $38 million of its goods and parts were on board two
by Sohee Kim (Bloomberg) South Korea’s cash-strapped Hanjin Shipping is adrift at sea — and in more ways than one. Hanjin is one of the world’s
By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — RWE AG and Statkraft AS said they’d bid for a U.K. clean-energy subsidy after getting full planning permission for
by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) South Korea said Hanjin Shipping will try to steer vessels to ports to unload cargo as the government tries to contain global
By Chanyaporn Chanjaroen (Bloomberg) — Swiber Holdings Ltd. said its court-appointed managers have indicated a “reasonable prospect” of saving
By Joe Mayes (Bloomberg) — CMA CGM SA bonds hit a record low after the container-shipping line’s quarterly profit plunged on weak freight rates. The
By Eli Lake (Bloomberg) There are times when I want President Barack Obama to invent a global crisis for John Kerry to solve, just to keep his secretary of
By Eli Lake (Bloomberg) In early August, Japan’s Coast Guard witnessed an unconventional Chinese assault on its territorial waters. According to Japanese
By Saket Sundria and Debjit Chakraborty (Bloomberg) — State-run Shipping Corp. of India Ltd., struggling for respite from an industry downturn, plans to
by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) Hanjin Shipping Co.’s vessels are getting stranded at sea after the South Korean container mover filed for court protection,
By Ying Fu (Bloomberg View) — As the leaders of China and the U.S. meet in Hangzhou ahead of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit, many would like to
(Bloomberg) Workers at a Coca-Cola factory in southern France opened a shipment of orange juice but found a huge shipment of cocaine instead. The
By Andy Mukherjee and David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Depending on whom you ask, South Korea’s largest container-shipping company filing for
By David Wainer (Bloomberg) — Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz is out to persuade big energy explorers put off by years of regulatory turmoil to
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