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By David Brunnstrom and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON/BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters) – An international tribunal’s ruling denying China’s claims in

By Henning Gloystein and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, July 12 (Reuters) – Global oil and shipping markets reacted nervously on Tuesday after an international

By Anthony Deutsch and Ben Blanchard AMSTERDAM/BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters) – An arbitration court ruled on Tuesday that China has no historic title over

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, July 12 (Reuters) – Oil tankers face choppy waters over the next 18 months as a torrent of new ships pushes down freight

HONG KONG/AMSTERDAM, July 11 (Reuters) – A panel of five judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague will announce on Tuesday their ruling

By Jonathan Saul and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) – Royal Bank of Scotland is facing setbacks over a proposed sale of its Greek ship

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped three Indonesian members of a tugboat crew off Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah, police said on

(Reuters) Asian prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) were set to rise next week on strong prompt demand from Argentina and India as well as potentially

BY GREG TORODE (Reuters) U.S. destroyers have sailed close to Chinese-held reefs and islands in the disputed South China Sea in recent weeks, U.S. naval

(Reuters)Brazil does not appear to have over-shipped its soybeans to the extent that it did for corn this season, and there is evidence that the

July 8 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose further on Friday

SYDNEY/SEOUL, July 8 (Reuters) – Shell said a small fire occurred at the construction site in South Korea for its huge floating Prelude liquefied natural

BRUSSELS, July 8 (Reuters) – The European Commission opened on Friday two investigations into whether tax exemptions for Belgian and French ports breach

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, July 7 (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators accepted on Thursday an offer from Maersk, the world’s largest container

By Sharon Bernstein July 6 (Reuters) – The drowning death of a U.S. sailor during Navy SEAL training in California has been ruled a homicide by the San

By Henning Gloystein, Jane Chung and Osamu Tsukimori SINGAPORE/SEOUL/TOKYO, July 7 (Reuters) – After half a year of strong oil price rises, Asian crude

ATHENS, July 6 (Reuters) – China COSCO Shipping will invest up to 500 million euros ($553.10 million) in its newly-acquired Piraeus port to focus on the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) – Global shipping confidence is at an all-time low as fears of a global recession and Britain’s vote to

By Ron Bousso LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) – At least two tankers carrying gasoline-making components have dropped anchor off New York Harbor for nearly a

BY GREG TORODE AND MIKE COLLETT-WHITE (Reuters) As an international tribunal prepares to rule on Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea,