The Guy Who Raised the Costa Concordia Wants to Wrangle Icebergs to Help Cape Town’s Water Crisis
By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) – Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s
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By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) – Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s
OSLO, April 30 (Reuters) – Britain and the United States launched a $25 million project on Monday to study the risks of a collapse of a giant glacier in
By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, April 30 (Reuters) – Taiwan is becoming the next battleground for the world’s top offshore wind developers as
By Alison Bevege SYDNEY, April 28 (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday the country will send a military patrol
By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 27 (Reuters) – Singapore will extend the mandatory use of mass-flow-meters to bunker barges delivering
LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – London’s Baltic Exchange is developing a container shipping index with Hong Kong-headquartered group Freightos in
By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 26 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) is set to announce it is making use of
by Josephine Mason (Reuters) – A vessel carrying 70,223 tonnes of sorghum from the United States to Asia switched its destination on Thursday, data
Update: Shipping agent Marítima Heinlein S.A. has issued the following statement on the incident: Regret to inform you that on 24th/April around 2315 hrs, the
By Aradhana Aravindan and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) – Singapore on Wednesday announced a $1.1 billion plan to expand and modernise
By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) – The Singapore fuel oil market has rallied this week as inventories have dropped at the same time that
By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange, owned by Singapore Exchange, plans to launch new indexes for grains, gas and
By Maha El Dahan and Karl Plume DUBAI/CHICAGO, April 24 (Reuters) – Four U.S. sorghum shipments initially bound for China have been diverted to other
HELSINKI, April 24 (Reuters) – Finnish ship technology and power plant maker Wartsila missed first-quarter earnings expectations on Tuesday and said
SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) – The port of Rotterdam expects to see its first ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in
by Ben Blanchard (Reuters) China first domestically developed aircraft carrier looks set to begin sea trials after pictures appeared on the Chinese
BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) – China first domestically developed aircraft carrier looks set to begin sea trials after pictures appeared on the Chinese
By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, April 23 (Reuters) – Offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 has made an unsolicited offer worth about $2 billion for U.S.
by Adam Jourdan (Reuters) – Chinese naval forces have passed through waters south of Taiwan and carried out military exercises in the western Pacific,
by Vera Eckert (Reuters) – German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd plans a 20 percent reduction in its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020,
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