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Friday, March 13, 2020
Royal Caribbean Suspends U.S. Cruises, Joining Rivals
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Royal Caribbean Suspends U.S. Cruises, Joining Rivals

March 13 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd said on Friday it was suspending its cruises in the United States for 30 days, an hour after Norwegian

March 13, 2020
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Trump Administration Dashes Hopes of Tariff Cut
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Trump Administration Dashes Hopes of Tariff Cut

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is not considering broad relief from import tariffs on

March 13, 2020
Total Views: 83

Thursday, March 12, 2020
Saudi Arabia Floods Market with Cheap Oil to Squeeze Out Russia
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Saudi Arabia Floods Market with Cheap Oil to Squeeze Out Russia

By Olga Yagova and Gleb Gorodyankin MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russia’s Urals oil grade out of its

March 12, 2020
Total Views: 184

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UK Imposes Travel Restrictions to North Sea Oil and Gas Installations

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – Britain’s oil and gas sector association OGUK on Thursday banned people from travelling

March 12, 2020
Total Views: 226

Princess Cruises Suspends All Cruises for Two Months
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Princess Cruises Suspends All Cruises for Two Months

March 12 (Reuters) – Princess Cruises, the operator of two ocean liners quarantined because of numerous coronavirus cases, said on Thursday it would

March 12, 2020
Total Views: 226

IMO Headquarters london
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IMO Headquarters Closes, Meetings Suspended Due to Coronavirus

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations’shipping agency, has closed its headquarters in

March 12, 2020
Total Views: 156

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Cruise Industry Proposes to White House Banning Passengers Over 70 Without Doctor’s Note – Report
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Cruise Industry Proposes to White House Banning Passengers Over 70 Without Doctor’s Note – Report

March 11 (Reuters) – A proposal submitted by a cruise industry body to the White House on Tuesday seeks to deny cruise boarding to people over 70, unless

March 11, 2020
Total Views: 86

Ship accident on the Danube river in Budapest
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Viking River Cruise Captain Heads to Trial Over Deadly Danube Crash

By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, March 11 (Reuters) – A ship captain involved in the worst accident in more than half a century on the Danube River went on

March 11, 2020
Total Views: 1281

tanker underway at sea from the bridge
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Tanker Rates Soar as Bahri Books VLCCs

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Jonathan Saul NEW YORK/LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s national shipping firm, Bahri, has provisionally

March 11, 2020
Total Views: 98

oil tanker
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Shell Eyes Tankers for Floating Storage

By Jonathan Saul and Ron Bousso LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to charter at least three supertankers to store crude oil at

March 11, 2020
Total Views: 168

Monday, March 9, 2020
Grand Princess Cruise Ship Docks in Oakland
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Grand Princess Cruise Ship Docks in Oakland

OAKLAND, Calif., March 9 (Reuters) – The cruise ship Grand Princess, barred last week from returning to its home port of San Francisco and facing

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 98

Stock photo of a tanker at sea
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U.S. to Warn Shipping Against Storing Iranian Oil

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – The Trump administration will soon issue advisories warning shippers, port officials and insurance companies against the

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 42

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Port of Rotterdam CEO Sees Slight Recovery in China Volumes

AMSTERDAM, March 9 (Reuters) – The number of container ships travelling from China to the port of Rotterdam seems to have recovered slightly, as

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 101

Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
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Oil Prices Tank as Saudi-Russian Pump War Looms

By Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Oil prices lost as much as a third of their value on Monday in their biggest daily rout since the 1991

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 94

Sunday, March 8, 2020
Grand Princess Passengers Face Coronavirus Quarantine
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Grand Princess Passengers Face Coronavirus Quarantine

By Steve Gorman and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) – An ocean liner barred from returning to port in San Francisco due to a coronavirus outbreak on board

March 8, 2020
Total Views: 102

Friday, March 6, 2020
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CMA CGM Sees China Operations Returning to Normal

PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) – French shipping group CMA CGM said its operations in China were returning to normal after the coronavirus

March 6, 2020
Total Views: 121

Thursday, March 5, 2020
bunkering operations
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Russian Ports to Disinfect Ships Arriving from Virus-Hit Countries

MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters) – Russia has ordered the mandatory disinfection of ships arriving at the Black Sea ports of Novorossiisk and Yuzhnaya

March 5, 2020
Total Views: 97

Soy Vessel Stranded in Brazil After ‘Problem’ During Maneuvering
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Soy Vessel Stranded in Brazil After ‘Problem’ During Maneuvering

SAO PAULO, March 5 (Reuters) – The vessel Aeolian Grace, loaded with some 65,000 tonnes of soybeans, has been stranded in Brazil’s São Francisco

March 5, 2020
Total Views: 155

The cruise ship Diamond Princess is docked at the port of Yokohama.
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Cruise Stocks Plunge

March 5 (Reuters) – Shares of U.S. cruise operators sunk on Thursday after the Grand Princess ocean liner, owned by Carnival Corp, was barred from

March 5, 2020
Total Views: 96

carbon capture and storage
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Equinor: Exploratory Carbon Storage Well Drilled in Norway

Norwegian energy giant Equinor and its partners Shell and Total have completed exploration drilling of a well that could serve as a reservoir for carbon

March 5, 2020
Total Views: 341