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PARIS, March 29 (Reuters) – Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French yacht in an assault in which its owner was killed and his wife abducted in the

By Henrik Stolen OSLO, March 29 (Reuters) – Access to capital for cash-hungry Norwegian offshore shipowners is expected to tighten further as lower

March 29 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Tuesday, helped

SHANGHAI, March 28 (Reuters) – China Cosco Shipping plans to retain its current container alliances until they expire, after which it plans to sign a new

By Nobuhiro Kubo and Tim Kelly YONAGUNI, Japan, March 28 (Reuters) – Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a

by David Stanway (Reuters) Chinese ships left the port of Qingdao on Saturday to take part in naval exercises off the coast of Indonesia, China’s

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO, March 25 (Reuters) – A federal judge in San Diego on Friday sentenced a U.S. Navy captain caught in a $30 million bribery

By Oleg Vukmanovic MILAN, March 25 (Reuters) – Dozens of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers parked in and around Qatari export facilities – the

By Ben Blanchard and J.R. Wu BEIJING/TAIPEI, March 25 (Reuters) – China reacted frostily on Friday after Taiwan ally Panama said it had invited leaders

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (Reuters) – About 100 Chinese fishing boats have been detected encroaching in Malaysia’s waters in the disputed South China

By Marianna Parraga and Alexandra Ulmer HOUSTON/CARACAS, March 24 (Reuters) – Serious delays to load and unload vessels at Venezuela’s main crude

TOKYO, March 24 (Reuters) – Japan’s whaling fleet returned on Thursday from its Antarctic hunt after a year-long suspension with a take of more

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy tug missing since 1921 has been discovered sunk off San Francisco, officials said on Wednesday, solving a

HAMBURG, March 23 (Reuters) – German container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said it expected a clear increase in operating profit (EBIT) this year thanks

March 23 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Wednesday,

By Jonathan Saul and Osamu Tsukimori LONDON/TOKYO, March 22 (Reuters) – Ship insurers have stepped in to help plug a shortfall in cover for transporting

LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) – British defence company BAE Systems has won a 472 million pound ($671 million) contract from the UK government to continue

March 21 (Reuters) – Cruise operator Carnival Corp said on Monday it received approval from Cuban authorities to begin operations to the country,

UNITED NATIONS, March 21 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council agreed on Monday to a Chinese request to remove sanctions on four ships that had been

By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO, March 20(Reuters) – Roger Agnelli, the Brazilian banker who turned Vale SA into the