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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” 9 percent increase in military

JERUSALEM, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Israel’s State Attorney has ordered the opening of a criminal investigation into the awarding of a maritime

By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the Navy withdrew from consideration on Sunday, the second time

By Karl Plume and Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Feb 23 (Reuters) – A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New

By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – U.K.-regulated ship insurers are preparing plans to open new outposts in European Union

By Mark Tay SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Traders are selling oil held in tankers anchored off Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in a sign that the

By Keith Wallis SINGPAORE, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo vessels on key Asian routes, which hit multi-week highs on

MADRID, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Spanish dock workers have called nine days of strikes to protest government plans to allow ports to hire non-unionised labour,

SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine Ltd (SembMarine) swung to profit in the fourth quarter of 2016 after provisions pulled

Feb 21 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Tuesday for a

HAVANA, Feb 20 (Reuters) – The Mississippi ports of Pascagoula and Gulfport signed agreements in Cuba on Monday with an eye to future business and with a

BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators will decide by March 27 whether to clear world No. 1 shipping company Maersk Line’s bid for

By Antonella Cinelli and Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – The chief prosecutor of a Sicilian court said on Friday that a task force is looking into whether

By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Cost cuts by Norway’s oil and gas industry appear to have contributed to a rise in accidents in

MANILA, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Gunmen in southern Philippine waters killed one crewman of a Vietnamese vessel and abducted seven in what appeared to be the

By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla., Feb 17 (Reuters) – U.S. investigators stood in silence for 33 seconds on Friday as they concluded the public phase of a

By Michel Rose PARIS, Feb 17 (Reuters) – France does not want Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri to hold more than 50 percent of bid target STX

SEOUL, Feb 17 (Reuters) – A South Korean court declared Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd bankrupt on Friday, after ruling earlier this month that the firm’s

BAGHDAD, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Iraq plans to acquire a “large fleet” of oil tankers to transport the OPEC nation’s crude to global