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By Anthony Esposito and Rosalba O’Brien SANTIAGO, April 2 (Reuters) – Chilean authorities on Wednesday were assessing the damage from a massive

The use of the word "bribe" makes it seem like some sort of shady, awkward proposal made in the corner of a dimly lit room. There must be a better word for it

By Horace Helps KINGSTON, April 1 (Reuters) – The Jamaican government has signed a preliminary agreement with one of China’s leading construction

FRANKFURT, April 1 (Reuters) – Ailing German public-sector lender HSH has cut its exposure to bad shipping loans by striking a debt restructuring deal

Judges at the highest U.N. court ordered Japan on Monday to halt whaling in the Antarctic, rejecting its long-held argument that the catch was for scientific

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) – Japan’s second-largest shipping company, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd (MOL), plans to invest 520 billion yen ($5.05 billion)

By Yimou Lee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) – China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group has agreed with banks to extend loans and other

Unknown assailants in a speedboat shot at a merchant vessel as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman on Sunday, the NATO Shipping Centre

BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) – Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) will lend $1.2 billion to German shipping firms Peter Dohle Shiffahrts-KG and

SINGAPORE, March 27 (Reuters) – Spanish oil group Repsol plans to expand its trading desk in Singapore as it looks to move more crude and fuel oil to

HONG KONG, March 27 (Reuters) – China COSCO Holdings returned to profit in 2013 thanks to investment gains from asset disposals during a global shipping

KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Icon Offshore Bhd, whose ships offer support services to oil platforms, aims to list on the Kuala

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER, March 26 (Reuters) – Negotiators on Wednesday reached a deal to end the month-long container truck strike that has crippled

MIAMI, March 26 (Reuters) – A Carnival Cruise ship rescued 41 Cuban migrants from a small, overcrowded boat in the Florida Straits, the 90-mile span of

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – Lifting the 40-year ban on U.S. crude exports is the fastest way the American drilling boom could be

The U.S. Coast Guard said it was preparing for the possible reopening on Tuesday of the Houston Ship Channel, which has been shut for three days after an oil

ritain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight

SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters) – Top iron ore producer Vale said it has delivered 382,500 tonnes of iron ore via one its giant Valemax ships to a new

Despite earlier optimism of the coordinating agencies earlier today, the Houston Ship Channel will remain closed to all vessel traffic, according to a

Libya will release the crew of a tanker that loaded oil at a rebel-held port and was stopped by the U.S. navy off Cyprus, its state prosecutor said on