U.S. Navy’s LCS Struggles to Fend Off Swarm Attacks, Tests Show
By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship struggled in drills at sea to fend off a swarm of small attacking vessels like the
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By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship struggled in drills at sea to fend off a swarm of small attacking vessels like the
By Alaric Nightingale and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest oil companies are asking tanker operators to slow down delivery of crude amid
By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc won shareholder approval to buy BG Group Plc, sealing its biggest acquisition amid the worst
(Bloomberg) — Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. said it’s in talks with a consortium led by power company InterGen NV to reach a financial close on its
By Paul Richardson (Bloomberg) — Ships traveling through waters off the coast of Somalia face an increased risk of piracy this year, fostered by
By Kyunghee Park and Jonathan Burgos (Bloomberg) — Keppel Corp.’s uncertainties about the oil- rig market are set to continue after a key customer in
By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — A U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship is sidelined in port in Singapore because of damage to gears that propel the vessel,
By Shruti Date Singh Bloomberg) — Cargill Inc. plans to close its London shipping office and consolidate some of its operations in Geneva as the freight
By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — As chairman of investments at Guggenheim Partners, Scott Minerd thought he had a realistic view on how big an economic
By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which is buying BG Group Plc in the industry’s largest deal in a decade, expects fourth-quarter
By Christian Wienberg and Jonathan Ferro (Bloomberg) — Container volumes have picked up this year after the market suffered from sluggish growth and
By Yu-Huay Sun (Bloomberg) — Chang Yung-fa, the billionaire founder of Evergreen Group who turned a second-hand bulk carrier into Asia’s biggest
By Luca Casiraghi (Bloomberg) — Havila Shipping ASA said it has so far failed to get enough support from bondholders to postpone repayments on 5.7
By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway’s Arctic ambitions just got a $7 billion boost from Statoil ASA. Norway’s largest oil company was able to halve
By Rakteem Katakey and Grant Smith (Bloomberg) — Iran’s return to international markets will spur investment in the Persian Gulf nation’s neglected
Aibing Guo and Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — China’s largest offshore oil company will cut output for the first time in more than a decade, prompting
By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — New orders received by Chinese shipbuilders fell by nearly half last year from 2014, suggesting more consolidation is in
By Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — Europe is set to be the key destination for liquefied natural gas supplies from the U.S. after prices fell in Asia,
By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their
Christine Buurma and Harry R. Weber (Bloomberg) — Cheniere Energy Inc. said its first cargo of liquefied natural gas from its new Louisiana export
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