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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Container Shipping Lines Sign up With Alibaba to Offer Online Direct Booking
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Container Shipping Lines Sign up With Alibaba to Offer Online Direct Booking

SHANGHAI, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Two container shipping lines, France’s CMA CGM and Israel’s Zim, have signed up with Alibaba to allow customers

February 16, 2017
Total Views: 91

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Shipping Industry Calls for Exemption from EU Carbon Market Reform
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Shipping Industry Calls for Exemption from EU Carbon Market Reform

LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry has urged the European Union to drop the sector’s inclusion in proposals adopted on

February 15, 2017
Total Views: 36

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Singapore’s Ezra Says it Faces Court Application to Wind Up Unit of Subsea JV

SINGAPORE, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Debt-laden Singaporean oilfield services firm Ezra Holdings Ltd said late on Tuesday that a creditor of a business owned by

February 15, 2017
Total Views: 29

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Inspectors Halt Royal Caribbean Ship in Florida Over Life-Saving Gear
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Inspectors Halt Royal Caribbean Ship in Florida Over Life-Saving Gear

Feb 14 (Reuters) – A Royal Caribbean cruise ship remained in a Florida port on Tuesday morning after U.S. Coast Guard inspectors halted its departure

February 14, 2017
Total Views: 99

MSC Says in Talks to Buy Stake in Italy’s Ignazio Messina
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MSC Says in Talks to Buy Stake in Italy’s Ignazio Messina

LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The world’s no. 2 container line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is in talks to acquire a stake in smaller Italian

February 14, 2017
Total Views: 82

Monday, February 13, 2017
Libya’s Bouri Field Loads First Tanker -NOC
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Libya’s Bouri Field Loads First Tanker -NOC

TRIPOLI, Feb 12 (Reuters) – A new floating storage and offloading (FSO) platform has loaded a first tanker with oil from Libya’s offshore Bouri

February 13, 2017
Total Views: 168

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Germany to Buy Six MKS Multi-Role Warships – Ministry

BERLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen has decided to buy six MKS-180 multi-role warships instead of putting off a

February 13, 2017
Total Views: 178

Thursday, February 9, 2017
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Frontline: DHT Offer “Highly Compelling”

OSLO, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Oil tanker firm Frontline reiterated its all-share offer for smaller rival DHT Holdings on Thursday despite the latter’s

February 9, 2017
Total Views: 24

Elbe Dredging Plan Needs Improvement, Court Says
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Elbe Dredging Plan Needs Improvement, Court Says

By Reinhard Becker LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Plans to dredge the river Elbe in Hamburg must be improved before a stop order on the work is

February 9, 2017
Total Views: 52

Wednesday, February 8, 2017
CMA CGM Names Rodolphe Saade to Succeed Father as CEO
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CMA CGM Names Rodolphe Saade to Succeed Father as CEO

PARIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Container shipping group CMA CGM has promoted Rodolphe Saade to be chief executive officer, succeeding his father and company

February 8, 2017
Total Views: 169

SBM Offshore Expects Revenue to Fall for Third Straight Year
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SBM Offshore Expects Revenue to Fall for Third Straight Year

Feb 8 (Reuters) – SBM Offshore expects 2017 revenue to fall 15 percent as the world’s top oil production ship leasing company said it

February 8, 2017
Total Views: 27

Pirates Kidnap 8 Crew from BBC Caribbean Off Nigeria
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Pirates Kidnap 8 Crew from BBC Caribbean Off Nigeria

LAGOS, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Pirates have kidnapped seven Russians and one Ukrainian after attacking the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean off the coast of

February 8, 2017
Total Views: 115

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Maersk Halves Dividend to Weather Shipping Crisis

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk plunged to an unexpected loss last year, hit by

February 8, 2017
Total Views: 37

Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Indonesia Port Disruptions Cause Coal Shipping Delays
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Indonesia Port Disruptions Cause Coal Shipping Delays

By Fergus Jensen and Henning Gloystein JAKARTA/SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Loading disruptions at ports in East and South Kalimantan on the Indonesian

February 7, 2017
Total Views: 347

Monday, February 6, 2017
El Faro Conditions Probed in Final U.S. Coast Guard Hearing on Sinking
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El Faro Conditions Probed in Final U.S. Coast Guard Hearing on Sinking

By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla., Feb 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. investigation into the deadly sinking of a cargo ship during a 2015 hurricane entered its final

February 6, 2017
Total Views: 109

Norway’s Farstad, Solstad, and Deep Sea Supply to Merge, Creating Offshore Supply Vessel Giant
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Norway’s Farstad, Solstad, and Deep Sea Supply to Merge, Creating Offshore Supply Vessel Giant

By Gwladys Fouche and Jonathan Saul OSLO/LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The pace of consolidation in the crisis-hit shipping industry accelerated on Monday

February 6, 2017
Total Views: 332

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Tanker Firm DHT ‘Unanimously’ Rejects Frontline Takeover Offer

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Tanker firm DHT Holdings unanimously rejected late on Sunday the proposed deal by rival Frontline, controlled

February 6, 2017
Total Views: 14

Friday, February 3, 2017
Crude Oil Tanker MT Aegean Unity Transiting New Panama Canal Locks
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Traders Rush to Ship U.S. Oil as Export Window to Asia Opens

By Catherine Ngai and Florence Tan NEW YORK/SINGAPORE Feb 3 (Reuters) – Oil majors and trading houses are set to ship an unprecedented volume

February 3, 2017
Total Views: 34

U.S. Sends Destroyer USS Cole to Patrol off Yemen -Officials
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U.S. Sends Destroyer USS Cole to Patrol off Yemen -Officials

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a Navy destroyer to patrol off the coast of Yemen to protect waterways from Houthi

February 3, 2017
Total Views: 196

Lack of Preparation Risks ‘Chaotic’ Shift to Cleaner Shipping Fuel
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Lack of Preparation Risks ‘Chaotic’ Shift to Cleaner Shipping Fuel

By Libby George ANTWERP, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The biggest change in shipping fuel for decades is three years away, but shipping and refining companies need

February 3, 2017
Total Views: 38