U.S. Coast Guard Photo By Stephanie Kelly and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - In a hopeful image that captured the spirit of a national mobilization against the coronavirus, a Navy hospital ship docked in New York on Monday as the city pleaded for more help to stanch the deadly outbreak at its U.S. epicenter. Painted a gleaming white and adorned with giant … [Read more...]
Tanker Rates Double as Oil Contango Spreads
Photo: Garry2014 / Shutterstock By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, March 30 (Reuters) - Supertanker freight rates are on the rise for a second time this month as producers, refiners and traders scramble to secure ships to transport crude or store a fast-growing global glut of oil, industry sources said. Freight rates for very large crude-oil carriers (VLCC) along the … [Read more...]
Coronavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Allowed to Transit Panama Canal
The cruise ship MS Zaandam, where passengers have died on board, navigates through the pacific side of the Panama Canal, in Panama City, Panama, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Erick Marciscan By Elida Moreno and Dave Graham PANAMA CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - A cruise ship stuck off Panama's Pacific coast after four … [Read more...]
Four Die on Holland America Cruise Ship
MS Zaandam. Photo courtesy Holland America Line PANAMA CITY, March 27 (Reuters) - Four passengers have died on board the MS Zaandam, a cruise ship currently off the coast of Panama with dozens of guests suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday. Zaandam had been on a South American cruise that … [Read more...]
Containership Runs Aground on Lower Mississippi
Photo courtesy Donnie Collins A 334-meter containership has run aground on the Lower Mississippi River near Poydras, Louisiana. The U.S. Coast Guard reports that watch standers at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call at 3:20 a.m. Friday that the Belita had run aground near 12-mile point, located at mile marker 81. The Coast Guard has placed a … [Read more...]