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Sept 7 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, touched a near 5-month

By Scott Malone SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic on Thursday after devastating a string of

FRANKFURT, Sept 7 (Reuters) – German shipping group Rickmers, which filed for insolvency in June, said on Thursday its ship management unit had the

By Scott Malone SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Monster Hurricane Irma hammered the Caribbean island of St. Martin on Wednesday as it packed a

By Devika Krishna Kumar Sept 5 (Reuters) – Fuel distributors and traders in Florida braced for a second supply shock as Hurricane Irma barreled

by Christian Shepherd (Reuters) – China’s navy and air force has carried out exercises near the Korean peninsula, practicing to defend against a

Henning Gloystein (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Wednesday as crude demand remained subdued on the back of refinery closures following Hurricane Harvey

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will buy five new frigates as part of a new shipbuilding strategy aimed at boosting the navy and exports following decades of

By Jemima Kelly LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Consultancy EY, data security firm Guardtime, Microsoft and ship operator Maersk have joined to build a

By Scott Malone SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Highly dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma rolled toward the Caribbean and southern United

By Gary McWilliams and Daniel Trotta HOUSTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Houston area residents picked up the pace of their recovery from Hurricane Harvey on

HAMAD PORT, Qatar, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Qatar inaugurated a new $7.4 billion port along its Gulf coast on Tuesday that officials said would become a

By Keith Wallis Sept 1 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) on Asian routes continue to sink on a glut of available

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Oil refiners and port facilities in Corpus Christi, Texas, are making strides resuming operations but

By Agnia Grigas Aug 30 (Reuters) – Last week, American liquefied natural gas (LNG) made its way to the somewhat unlikely market of Lithuania. The former

By Gwladys Fouche STAVANGER, Norway, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The future of Norway’s oil sector is emerging as a key issue for voters in a Sept. 11

By Josephine Mason and Meng Meng BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) – China’s war on smog is shaking up the country’s busiest ports, which handle

SHANGHAI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – China’s COSCO Shipping Holdings Co Ltd reported a first-half profit on Wednesday and forecast that improved demand in

By Catherine Ngai and Marianna Parraga NEW YORK/HOUSTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Oil traders were scrambling on Tuesday to move crude and fuel supplies

By Leigh Thomas PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Russia still aims to go ahead this year with the sale of a stake in shipping company Sovcomflot, its economy