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Monday, August 1, 2016
Singapore’s Port Authority Revokes AC Oil Bunker License
News

Singapore’s Port Authority Revokes AC Oil Bunker License

SINGAPORE, Aug 1 (Reuters) – The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) revoked the bunker fuel supplier and bunker craft operator licences of AC

August 1, 2016
Total Views: 24

Sunday, July 31, 2016
File photo of smoke rising from burning oil storage tanks in the port of Ras Lanuf, Libya
Ports

Libya Government To Reopen Ports

(Reuters) Libya’s U.N.-backed government has signed a deal with an armed brigade controlling the major Ras Lanuf and Es Sider oil ports to end a blockade

July 31, 2016
Total Views: 6

Saturday, July 30, 2016
RoRo vessel whale fluke
NOAA

NOAA Announces Plan To Silence US Oil Rigs, Dredges and Ships

(Reuters) The ocean has gotten noisier for decades, with man-made racket from oil drilling, shipping and construction linked to signs of stress in marine life

July 30, 2016
Total Views: 139

Friday, July 29, 2016
Baltic Index Down On Large Vessel Rate Drop
Maritime News

Baltic Index Down On Large Vessel Rate Drop

(Reuters) The Baltic Index, the Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell on Thursday on

July 29, 2016
Total Views: 45

port of Enayam India Container Hub
Ports

Watching China, India Doubles Down On Container Ports

(Reuters) An Indian conglomerate has started building the country’s first transshipment port, conceived 25 years ago, and the government will construct

July 29, 2016
Total Views: 40

Deepwater Champion Drillship
Offshore

Deepwater Drillers “Will Not Recover Anytime Soon” Despite Supplier Uptick, Says Analysts

BY GWLADYS FOUCHE AND STEPHEN JEWKES (Reuters) European suppliers to the oil industry, hit by their customers’ spending cutbacks over the past two years,

July 29, 2016
Total Views: 11

Thursday, July 28, 2016
BG Group Methane Kari Elin LNG carrier
Maritime News

Enterprise to Export First Ethane Cargo from U.S. Gulf Coast in August

HOUSTON, July 28 (Reuters) – Enterprise Products Partners on Thursday said the first ship to load ethane for export from its new terminal on the Houston

July 28, 2016
Total Views: 5

Sembcorp Marine Q2 Profit Plunges 90 Percent
Maritime News

Sembcorp Marine Q2 Profit Plunges 90 Percent

SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) – Singapore’s rig builder Sembcorp Marine Ltd’s second-quarter profit plummeted 90 percent, as the prolonged

July 28, 2016
Total Views: 4

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
A Summer Cruise to North Sea Oil Rigs Amazes Tourists
Maritime News

A Summer Cruise to North Sea Oil Rigs Amazes Tourists

By Ilze Filks and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, July 27 (Reuters) – Bored with palm-fringed beaches and turquoise seas? Then the gigantic oil platforms of the

July 27, 2016
Total Views: 82

Monday, July 25, 2016
Panama Canal Design Concerns Renewed After Ship Hits Wall
News

Panama Canal Design Concerns Renewed After Ship Hits Wall

A Chinese container ship hit a wall of the new lane of the Panama Canal, a Canal Authority official and a local ship agent said on Monday, the third

July 25, 2016
Total Views: 40

Friday, July 22, 2016
VLCC Rates to Hold Steady as Ample Tonnage Weighs On Market
Maritime News

VLCC Rates to Hold Steady as Ample Tonnage Weighs On Market

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) are likely to hold steady around existing levels as

July 22, 2016
Total Views: 4

China Emerges as Buyer of Alaskan Crude Cargo
Maritime News

China Emerges as Buyer of Alaskan Crude Cargo

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) – Unipec, the trading arm of top Asian refiner Sinopec, has bought two U.S. crude cargoes, including a rare

July 22, 2016
Total Views: 10

Thursday, July 21, 2016
Post-Brexit Exclusion from EU Ports Plan Could Help British Terminals
Maritime News

Post-Brexit Exclusion from EU Ports Plan Could Help British Terminals

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – British ports could gain a competitive edge in tough shipping markets through post-Brexit exclusion from

July 21, 2016
Total Views: 21

A GTT LNG containment tank.
Maritime News

LNG Containment Company GTT Cuts Outlook On Ship Construction Delays

July 21 (Reuters) – French supplier of systems for marine transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) reported

July 21, 2016
Total Views: 42

Royal Navy Nuclear Sub Damaged in Collision with Commercial Vessel
Maritime News

Royal Navy Nuclear Sub Damaged in Collision with Commercial Vessel

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – A British nuclear Astute-class submarine was involved in a “glancing collision” with a merchant vessel off the

July 21, 2016
Total Views: 158

Wednesday, July 20, 2016
China Eyes Eight Cruise Ships to Send to South China Sea
Maritime News

China Eyes Eight Cruise Ships to Send to South China Sea

BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters) – Up to eight Chinese ships will offer cruises to the South China Sea over the next five years, a state-run newspaper said on

July 20, 2016
Total Views: 10

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
BP Charters Foreign-Flagged Tanker to Transport North Slope Crude
Maritime News

BP Charters Foreign-Flagged Tanker to Transport North Slope Crude

HOUSTON, July 18 (Reuters) – British oil company BP Plc has chartered a foreign-flagged vessel to transport Alaskan crude, the company said on Monday,

July 19, 2016
Total Views: 8

Monday, July 18, 2016
Bosphorus
Maritime News

Med-Black Sea Tanker Rates Weaken After Failed Coup in Turkey

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – The cost of shipping oil through the Black Sea and Mediterranean fell on Monday after a failed coup in

July 18, 2016
Total Views: 56

Shipping Boom Worsens Air Pollution Over China, Killing Thousands, Study Says
Maritime News

Shipping Boom Worsens Air Pollution Over China, Killing Thousands, Study Says

By Alister Doyle OSLO, July 18 (Reuters) – A boom in shipping is aggravating air pollution in China and other nations in East Asia, causing thousands of

July 18, 2016
Total Views: 4

Shipping Oversupply to Persist Despite Big Scrapping Plans, Drewry Says
News

Shipping Oversupply to Persist Despite Big Scrapping Plans, Drewry Says

COPENHAGEN, July 18 (Reuters) – A record number of around 150 container vessels are expected to be scrapped in 2016 but it will not be enough for an

July 18, 2016
Total Views: 48
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