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By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based trader Winson Oil has bought a very large crude carrier (VLCC) to store oil in the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Missile attacks from Yemen on Western military craft risk spilling over into nearby busy sea lanes which

By Gwladys Fouche SVALBARD, Norway, Oct 10 (Reuters) – A surge in Arctic tourism is bringing ever bigger cruise ships to the formerly isolated, ice-bound

PARIS, Oct 10 (Reuters) – The French government said on Monday it was not planning to take a majority stake in the French subsidiary of struggling South

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in

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