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A Middle Eastern-owned company landed its first North American port operations contract on Monday, a 35-year agreement with Port Canaveral on Florida's east

Veolia Environnement, a global leader in water and waste management, has a little local difficulty: an ailing France-Corsica ferry operator that weighs on its

Football fever is so intense in Brazil, the host of the World Cup soccer tournament, that even the main shipping ports in the commodity-exporting powerhouse

National Shipping Co of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) plans to arrange long-term sharia-compliant financing in the next year to replace a bridge loan backing its $1.3

Nova Tankers, which until recently has operated up to 50 very large crude carriers (VLCC), will close down its business at end of June, the company said in a

A cruise ship carrying 154 passengers and 40 crew was evacuated after it sprang a leak on a river in the eastern Netherlands early on Sunday morning, emergency

China wants to invest in Greek airports and railways as well as the busiest port, officials said on Friday, as the country where the euro debt crisis began

London's centuries-old Baltic Exchange and clearing house LCH.Clearnet are in talks about a tie-up over the Baltic's dry bulk freight derivatives platform, the

By Yuka Obayashi KASHIMA, Japan, June 20 (Reuters) – Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, Japan’s biggest steelmaker, may start talks on a

By Megha Rajagopalan and Charlie Zhu BEIJING/HONG KONG, June 20 (Reuters) – China has sent four more oil rigs into the South China Sea in a sign that

Dutch engineers this week started a months-long survey to map unchartered deep-sea terrain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, the next step in the search for

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE June 19 (Reuters) – Rates for capesize bulk carriers on key Asian routes are set to hold steady as charterers maintain leasing

China's scuppering of a planned alliance of the world's top three container shipping lines signals its protectionist stance on key industries and is a reminder

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd has won an order to build four very large ore carriers for Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, company

Mexican ferry company Baja Ferries said on Tuesday it hopes to close a deal to buy troubled French ferry operator SNCM before November or

Germany's second biggest container shipper Hamburg-Sued is seeking options for the business after merger talks with bigger rival Hapag-Lloyd failed last

The surviving crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people and sparking a nationwide outpouring of grief argued on Tuesday that

Italian shipmaker Fincantieri launched an initial public offering on Monday, seeking cash for projects in the pipeline and to fund potential

Australia's Fortescue Metals Group said on Monday it has signed a $275 million contract with a Chinese shipyard to build four big iron ore carriers in an

CONAKRY, June 14 (Reuters) – Guinea’s national assembly ratified an investment framework on Saturday to enable the government to raise nearly $20