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TOKYO, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning to stop taking new orders for large passenger ships, downsizing its

By Joseph Guyler Delva and Scott Malone CHANTAL, Haiti/COCOA BEACH, Fla., Oct 7 (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens

By Naomi Tajitsu and Keith Wallis TOKYO/SINGAPORE, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Nippon Yusen, Japan’s biggest shipper by sales, warned it would book a $1.9

By Catherine Ngai and Liz Hampton NEW YORK/HOUSTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Robust Asian demand for West African crude is fueling a worldwide surge in shipping

By Joseph Guyler Delva and Sarah Marsh PORT-AU-PRINCE/GUANTANAMO, Cuba, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew churned toward the Bahamas and

By Roslan Khasawneh and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry is bracing for a key regulatory decision that could mark a

JERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Israeli shipping company Zim, which has been hit hard by the weak global shipping market, said on Wednesday it had agreed to

By Makini Brice LES CAYES, Haiti, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade ripped into Haiti’s southwestern peninsula

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The collapsed Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd could not compete against global rivals that were supported by their

DUBAI (Reuters) – Arab coalition forces have launched operations against militia boats of Yemen’s Houthi group that struck a civilian logistics

By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS, Oct 3 (Reuters) – China’s biggest shipping company wants to more than double the number of cruise passengers using

By Makini Brice and Joseph Guyler Delva LES CAYES/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew intensified en route to Haiti on Monday, bringing

TOKYO, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd said it would consider a drastic revision of its shipbuilding business due to its

By Katya Golubkova and Kira Zavyalova MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The privatisation of a 25 percent stake in Russian state shipping firm Sovcomflot may

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo shippers on key Asian routes, which hit the highest in about a

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) are set to rise further next week, fuelled by a raft

By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE, Sept 29 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry, ravaged by collapsing revenues, defensive mergers and the failure of

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Shipping companies and a powerful dockworkers union have agreed to discuss a possible extension to a

By Russell Cheyne GRANGEMOUTH, Scotland, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s first shale gas delivery from the United States sailed into a heated

LUANDA, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Four people died and two were missing after a helicopter crashed en route to a Chevron oil platform off the Angolan coast,