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Friday, September 25, 2015
Shipping News

Container Freight Rates Fall 31% on Week for Key Asia-Europe Trade Route

  COPENHAGEN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell 31 percent to $313

September 25, 2015
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Shipping News

Baltic Exchange Chief Executive to Step Down

  LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Jeremy Penn, chief executive of London’s centuries old Baltic Exchange will step down next year, the exchange

September 25, 2015
Total Views: 15

Thursday, September 24, 2015
News

UN Defends Arms Shipment in Kenya, But Calls Drug Claim Disturbing

  NAIROBI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Weapons discovered by Kenyan authorities aboard a Norwegian ship were part of a legitimate cargo for United Nations

September 24, 2015
Total Views: 51

Shipping News

China Probing Shipping Companies Over Excessive Fees

  SHANGHAI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – China is probing shipping companies over allegations that they have been levying arbitrary and excessive charges,

September 24, 2015
Total Views: 55

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
News

Egypt to Pay $1 Billion for France’s Mistral Warships

  By Jean-Baptiste Vey and John Irish PARIS, Sept 23 (Reuters) – France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for 950 million

September 23, 2015
Total Views: 68

Shipping News

Torm Exits Sluggish Dry Bulk Market

  By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Danish shipping company Torm said on Wednesday it would withdraw from the lacklustre dry bulk

September 23, 2015
Total Views: 79

News

Undeclared Weapons Found on Höegh Car Carrier Inside UN Vehicles, Owner Confirms

  By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Weapons found by Kenyan police on a ship last week had been stashed inside a shipment of

September 23, 2015
Total Views: 87

Tuesday, September 22, 2015
News

Sea Trials for U.S. Navy’s Next Supercarrier Delayed

  WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The sea trial schedule for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has been delayed six to eight weeks after

September 22, 2015
Total Views: 69

Shipping News

Carnival’s Weak Forecast Overshadows Strong Results

  By Yashaswini Swamynathan and Sruthi Ramakrishnan Sept 22 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, issued a

September 22, 2015
Total Views: 23

News

Cracks Put April 2016 Delivery of Panama Canal Expansion At Risk

  PANAMA CITY, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The opening of a newly expanded Panama Canal could be delayed after cracks were detected in the concrete walls of

September 22, 2015
Total Views: 52

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New Generation ‘Megaships’ Worsening Overcapacity – Kemp

  By John Kemp LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Container shipping lines are poised to take delivery of a new generation of “megaships” over

September 22, 2015
Total Views: 101

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China-Led Joint Venture in talks to Build $1.6 Billion Arctic LNG Carriers

  SHANGHAI, Sept 22 (Reuters) – China Merchants Energy Shipping, Sinotrans Shipping and Greek shipping firm Dynagas are in talks to form a joint

September 22, 2015
Total Views: 46

Monday, September 21, 2015
Shipping News

Norden Trims Focus: Danish Owner Plans Exit from Capesize and Post-Panamax Vessel Segments

  By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Danish shipping company D/S Norden plans to cut the number of vessel types it operates to help it

September 21, 2015
Total Views: 38

News

Commercial Ships Scoop Up Desperate Human Cargo

  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) – In October last year, bulk carrier CS Caprice was shipping a cargo of barley across the Mediterranean

September 21, 2015
Total Views: 43

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Singapore’s Record High Fuel Oil Stockpiles Driving Storage at Sea

  By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Record high stocks of fuel oil in Singapore are pushing traders to store the shipping and

September 21, 2015
Total Views: 46

Friday, September 18, 2015
News

Kenya Raids Höegh Car Carrier Suspected of Carrying Drugs and Firearms

  Update: Höegh Autoliners has confirmed that the vessel under investigation is its Höegh Transporter, a 6,500 ceu Pure Car/Truck Carrier (PCTC). A

September 18, 2015
Total Views: 124

News

France May Have Found a Buyer for Its Two Mistral Warships

  PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) – France is confident it will wrap up the sale of two Mistral warships to a new buyer in the next few weeks after

September 18, 2015
Total Views: 16

Thursday, September 17, 2015
News

House Panel Passes Bill to Lift U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban

  WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A bill to repeal the 40-year-old ban on U.S. oil exports easily passed the energy panel in the House of

September 17, 2015
Total Views: 29

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Asia Capesize Rates to Climb as Owners, Charterers Play Cat and Mouse

  By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE Sept 17 (Reuters) – Freight rates for capesize bulk carriers could continue to recover as ship owners scent the

September 17, 2015
Total Views: 34

Samsung Units Deny Merger Talks
News

Samsung Units Deny Merger Talks

SEOUL, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd and Samsung Engineering Co Ltd, affiliates of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group, said on

September 17, 2015
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