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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Houston Ship Channel Reopens to Vessel Traffic Following Tanker Fire
News

Houston Ship Channel Reopens to Vessel Traffic Following Tanker Fire

Update: The Coast Guard Captain of the Port reopened the Houston Ship Channel to all vessel traffic at 3:31 p.m. Tuesday. The Upper Houston Ship Channel was

September 6, 2016
Total Views: 53

More Iranian Fast Attack Crafts ‘Harasses’ U.S. Navy Ship in Persian Gulf
News

More Iranian Fast Attack Crafts ‘Harasses’ U.S. Navy Ship in Persian Gulf

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic

September 6, 2016
Total Views: 65

Hanjin Raising Funds To Unload Stranded Cargo Ships
Shipping News

Hanjin Raising Funds To Unload Stranded Cargo Ships

By Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Hanjin Shipping’s parent firm plans to raise 100 billion won ($90 million) to fund the

September 6, 2016
Total Views: 133

Monday, September 5, 2016
Hanjin Scrambles to Prevent Ship Seizures
News

Hanjin Scrambles to Prevent Ship Seizures

By Joyce Lee and Keith Wallis SEOUL/SINGAPORE, Sept 5 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping plans to take legal action in jurisdictions

September 5, 2016
Total Views: 73

Sunday, September 4, 2016
Hanjin Philadelphia at the Port of Oakland
Finance

Hanjin Shares Dive 30 Percent In Resumed Trading

by Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) Shares in Hanjin Shipping (117930.KS) slumped by the daily limit of 30 percent in resumed trade on Monday as the South Korean shipping

September 4, 2016
Total Views: 65

Satellite image of dredgers depositing sand on the northern rim of the Mischief Reef
Navy

Chinese Flotilla Invades Disputed Scarborough Shoal

By Manuel Mogato (Reuters) The Philippines expressed “grave concern” on Sunday and demanded an explanation from China’s ambassador over what

September 4, 2016
Total Views: 193

Kenya Container Terminal Mombasa
Ports

Kenya Commissions New Mombasa Container Terminal

By Joseph Akwiri (Reuters) Kenya on Saturday inaugurated the first part of a new container terminal at Mombasa which is expected to boost by 50 percent the

September 4, 2016
Total Views: 151

Saturday, September 3, 2016
U.S. President Barack Obama listens during a joint ratification of the Paris climate change agreement ahead of the G20 Summit at the West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou
Defense

Obama Presses China On Maritime Treaty

By Roberta Rampton (Reuters) U.S. President Barack Obama pressed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday on territorial disputes in the

September 3, 2016
Total Views: 67

Hermine Churns North into Carolinas After Pounding Florida
Shipping News

Hermine Churns North into Carolinas After Pounding Florida

Sept 3 (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Hermine plowed across North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Saturday, threatening the U.S. East Coast with a mix of

September 3, 2016
Total Views: 31

Friday, September 2, 2016
A fisherman repairs his boat overlooking fishing boats that fish in the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, at Masinloc, Zambales, in the Philippines
Shipping News

ASEAN, China To Adopt Code for ‘Unplanned Encounters At Sea’

By Manuel Mogato (Reuters) Southeast Asian countries and China will establish hotlines and adopt communications protocols to avoid potential naval clashes

September 2, 2016
Total Views: 69

Stern View Of A Hanjin Containership
Finance

U.S. Firms Take Legal Action Against Hanjin

By Joyce Lee and Keith Wallis (Reuters) Roughly half of Hanjin Shipping Co‘s container vessels have been blocked from ports

September 2, 2016
Total Views: 68

Freight Rates Jump as Hanjin Collapse Spurs Supply Shock
News

Freight Rates Jump as Hanjin Collapse Spurs Supply Shock

By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The cost of transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe and the United States jumped

September 2, 2016
Total Views: 27

Thursday, September 1, 2016
noble-offshore-oil-rig Israel
Offshore

Israel Back On Track Offshore Gas Exploration

By Ron Bousso (Reuters) Israel has overcome delays to the exploration and development of its offshore oblatural gas fields and wants to

September 1, 2016
Total Views: 72

NordLB office building hamburg
Uncategorized

Germany Bails Out Bad Shipping Loans

German state-controlled lender NordLB has agreed to take full control of its loss-making Bremer Landesbank (BLB) unit, which is suffering from a weak shipping

September 1, 2016
Total Views: 41

Russia Honors First British Arctic Merchant Navy Convoy
News

Russia Honors First British Arctic Merchant Navy Convoy

By Dmitry Madorsky (Reuters) British and Russian World War Two veterans gathered on Wednesday in Arkhangelsk, 75 years to the day since Britain’s first

September 1, 2016
Total Views: 370

Hanjin Containership In Port
News

More Hanjin Ships Seized as Freight Rates Surge and Cargo Owners Fret

By Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd vessels have been seized at Chinese ports in the wake of the South Korean

September 1, 2016
Total Views: 53

Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Hanjin Shipping's container terminal is seen at the Busan New Port in Busan
News

Hanjin Shipping Files for Receivership as Ports Turn Away its Vessels

By Joyce Lee and Se Young Lee SEOUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd filed for court receivership on Wednesday after losing

August 31, 2016
Total Views: 125

Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Oil Tanker SN_OLIVIA
Shipping News

Iraq Blacklists Tankers Transporting Kurdish Crude Oil

By Dmitry Zhdannikov (Reuters) Iraqi state oil firm SOMO has blacklisted three tankers involved in shipping crude from Kurdistan, stepping up pressure on the

August 30, 2016
Total Views: 127

How Can The U.S. Navy Defeat Swarm Attacks?
Navy

How Can The U.S. Navy Defeat Swarm Attacks?

By David Axe (Reuters) Four times last week, speedboats belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – a sort of government-sanctioned Islamic

August 30, 2016
Total Views: 258

Norway’s DNB: Oil Industry Suppliers Face Years of Restructuring
Offshore

Norway’s DNB: Oil Industry Suppliers Face Years of Restructuring

By Stine Jacobsen STAVANGER, Norway, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Restructuring the debt of struggling offshore oil service vessel (OSV) and drilling rig companies

August 30, 2016
Total Views: 70