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Monday, May 23, 2022
port of long beach
Ports

Long Beach Port Chief Doesn’t See Labor Deal by July 1 Deadline

By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) — The head of the US’s second-busiest port doesn’t see talks over new labor contracts for 22,000 dockworkers at 29

May 23, 2022
Total Views: 2657

Saturday, May 21, 2022
Coffee Shipped by Sailboats In Efforts To Disrupt The Heavy Ships’ Command Of The High Seas
Shipping

Coffee Shipped by Sailboats In Efforts To Disrupt The Heavy Ships’ Command Of The High Seas

By Irina Anghel and Eamon Akil Farhat May 21, 2022,(Bloomberg) –There’s never been a more dreamy way to have your coffee delivered than a sailboat

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 32594

Russia Stops Gas Supply To Finland Over Refusal To Pay In Rubles
Shipping

Russia Stops Gas Supply To Finland Over Refusal To Pay In Rubles

By Kati Pohjanpalo (Bloomberg) –Russia has cut Finland off from its natural gas supplies as relations between the two neighbors sour over the Nordic

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 1485

New LNG Deal Will Allow Finland, Estonia to End Russian Gas Imports
Shipping

New LNG Deal Will Allow Finland, Estonia to End Russian Gas Imports

By Sergio Chapa (Bloomberg) —Excelerate Energy Inc. signed a 10-year deal to move a ship that stores liquefied natural gas to Finland, allowing the

May 21, 2022
Total Views: 6640

Friday, May 20, 2022
Sovcomflot ship bridge
Shipping

Russian Oil Producers Snap Up Sovcomflot Tankers Shunned By Rest of the World

By Debjit Chakraborty, Julian Lee and Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — Russian oil producers are starting to book up an increasing number of tankers

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 6893

Gianluigi Aponte portrait
Shipping

Former-Banker Turned Shipping Magnate Rides Pandemic Shipping Boom to $19 Billion Fortune

By Ben Stupples (Bloomberg) — Gianluigi Aponte left a job in finance to focus on shipping. Now, decades later, he has one of the world’s biggest

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 3426

Thursday, May 19, 2022
panama canal tonnage record
Shipping

Panama Canal Ship Queue Reflects Shipping Bottlenecks

By James Attwood, Augusta Saraiva and Sergio Chapa (Bloomberg) — The global shipping bottlenecks rattling industries and consumers in the pandemic era

May 19, 2022
Total Views: 7446

CNO Admiral Mike Gilday Wearing Camo
Navy

Taiwan Must Spend More On Maritime Defense, Says Top US Navy Admiral

By Daniel Flatley (Bloomberg) Taiwan must gird itself against potential Chinese aggression through military deterrence that includes acquiring the right

May 19, 2022
Total Views: 1661

Wednesday, May 18, 2022
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Walney Extension offshore wind farm operated by Orsted off the coast of Blackpool, Britain
Offshore

Global Offshore Wind Spending Estimated at $1 Trillion By 2031

By Dan Murtaugh (Bloomberg) — Offshore wind power installations will increase nearly nine-fold this decade as the world pours $1 trillion into the clean

May 18, 2022
Total Views: 968

cargo ships loading at port of oakland
Shipping

Worker Shortages Snarl Shipping Even as Shanghai Lockdowns Ease

By Ann Koh and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — China appears to be gradually easing its lockdown of Shanghai, but that won’t bring immediate relief to

May 18, 2022
Total Views: 1833

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
bulk ship at sunset
Environment

British Start-Up Wants to Build Batteries for Ships

By Eddie Spence (Bloomberg) — UK battery company Britishvolt Ltd. received an investment from shipping firm Scorpio Group as it looks to develop

May 17, 2022
Total Views: 1843

tanker in suez canal
Shipping

Flotilla of Tankers Takes Russian Oil Through Suez Canal to Asia

By Julian Lee (Bloomberg) — Russia’s seaborne crude exports from its western ports to Asian countries, predominantly India and China, rebounded to

May 17, 2022
Total Views: 18669

Monday, May 16, 2022
offshore drilling rig brazil. Stock Photo: Shutterstock / marchello74
Offshore

Shell Joins Exxon in Losing Brazil Bet

By Peter Millard (Bloomberg) — Expensive offshore exploration setbacks for international oil majors including Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. are

May 16, 2022
Total Views: 4178

LNG carrier with letters L N G on side.
Shipping

EU Gives Companies Green Light to Keep Buying Russian Gas

By Ewa Krukowska and Alberto Nardelli (Bloomberg) — The European Union said companies can keep buying could keep buying gas without breaching sanctions,

May 16, 2022
Total Views: 1813

Sunday, May 15, 2022
nyk line
News

Shipping Chaos Sends Japan Manufacturers Home

By Masumi Suga (Bloomberg) Japanese manufacturers are increasingly looking to move offshore operations to their home market, according to a Tokyo Steel

May 15, 2022
Total Views: 4035

UK North Sea Sees Chance for Political Reprieve In Energy Crisis
Offshore

UK North Sea Sees Chance for Political Reprieve In Energy Crisis

By Laura Hurst (Bloomberg) –Six months ago, UK North Sea oil and gas faced the bleakest outlook in its 50-year history. The government was focused

May 15, 2022
Total Views: 2013

Saturday, May 14, 2022
‘Straw Owner’ Hides $1 Billion Worth of Russian Yachts
News

‘Straw Owner’ Hides $1 Billion Worth of Russian Yachts

By Stephanie Baker and Jonathan Browning May 14, 2022 (Bloomberg) –In the race to seize assets tied to sanctioned Russian billionaires, US

May 14, 2022
Total Views: 70148

Emissions From London Rubbish Will Be Buried Under Norwegian North Sea
Offshore

Emissions From London Rubbish Will Be Buried Under Norwegian North Sea

By Stephen Treloar (Bloomberg) –Carbon dioxide emissions generated by burning waste at incineration plants in London will be stored thousands of

May 14, 2022
Total Views: 1964

A dockyard worker watches as barley grain is mechanically poured into a 40,000 ton ship at an Ukrainian agricultural exporter's shipment terminal in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolaev July 9, 2013.
Ports

Germany Accuses Putin of Provoking the Global Food Crisis

By Iain Rogers, Katharina Rosskopf and Arne Delfs May 14, 2022 (Bloomberg) –German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock accused Russia of deliberately

May 14, 2022
Total Views: 1389

Friday, May 13, 2022
Russian Tycoon’s Yacht Goes Dark on Way to Bahamas
Shipping

Russian Tycoon’s Yacht Goes Dark on Way to Bahamas

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) — A $150 million superyacht tied to Leonid Mikhelson, Russia’s second richest-citizen whose gas company is a target of

May 13, 2022
Total Views: 22028