Reuters

  COPENHAGEN, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Maersk Oil has received approval by the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority to develop the largest gas field

  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in

By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Reuters) – An Iranian fishing vessel and its crew have escaped after being held captive for five months by Somali

  ROME (Reuters) – Rescuers saved about 3,000 migrants but found more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya on Wednesday, the Italian coast

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – A heating unit at a Petrobras depot in Brazil used to treat fuel for ocean-going ships exploded on Wednesday, killing

  By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Malaysia and Indonesia are deploying rapid reaction teams to combat a soaring number of attacks on

By Sarah McFarlane and Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON/MILAN, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Gas giant Qatar is becoming commercially sharper, using traders and tenders to

  AMSTERDAM, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay compensation for seizing the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise

  By Emmett Berg SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash

  HAMBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) – An international maritime tribunal on Monday rejected Italy’s request that India provisionally release two

  OSLO, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Operator Statoil and its partners have been given the formal approval to develop the first phase of their giant Johan

  COPENHAGEN, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell by 26.7 percent to

  By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Freight rates for capesize bulk carriers are set to slide further next week, after falling to their

  By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Dutch marine engineering company Boskalis reported a 21 percent rise in first-half earnings,

  FRANKFURT, Aug 20 (Reuters) – German container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd aims to launch preparations for a stock market flotation in September,

  By Keith Wallis and Jane Xie SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A slide in marine fuel prices to six-year lows should be a welcome break for global

  SHANGHAI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – China’s port authorities will strengthen supervision of dangerous goods shipments following devastating

  By Timothy Gardner and Amanda Becker Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday staked out her

  COPENHAGEN, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, plans to raise spot freight rates sharply on

  SAO PAULO, August 17 (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge sentenced Nestor Cervero, former international chief of state-run oil firm Petrobras, to just