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Monday, March 11, 2013
News

South American Grain Boom Drives Panamax Rates Higher

March 11 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry commodities, rose on Monday, primarily

March 11, 2013
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Uncategorized

EU Sulphur Targets Costly For UK Shipping, Report Says

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – European Union targets to reduce sulphur emissions from the shipping sector will lead to huge costs for the British marine

March 11, 2013
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
News

For Nordic Executives, Quality of Life is Paramount

By Niklas Pollard and Balazs Koranyi STOCKHOLM/OSLO, March 10 (Reuters) – Executive excess need not be etched in stone. Just look at the Nordic region,

March 10, 2013
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Ports

Dock Workers Reach Tentative Deal At NY, NJ Ports

By Hilary Russ March 7 (Reuters) – Longshoremen in New York and New Jersey, who handle shipments at the largest port on the U.S. East Coast, have reached

March 8, 2013
Total Views: 47

News

Hapag-Lloyd Co-Owner Eyes Merger Of Equals With Hamburg Süd

FRANKFURT, March 8 (Reuters) – Hapag-Lloyd co-owner Klaus-Michael Kuehne wants the container shipping group’s prospective merger partner

March 8, 2013
Total Views: 185

Thursday, March 7, 2013
Canadian Glaciers Face Irreversible Melt, Study Shows
News

Canadian Glaciers Face Irreversible Melt, Study Shows

By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, March 7 (Reuters) – Canadian glaciers that are the world’s third biggest store of ice after

March 7, 2013
Total Views: 28

News

Captain, Chief Engineer, and 2nd Engineer Kidnapped Off Nigeria

ABUJA (Reuters) – Pirates attacked an oil industry supply vessel in Nigerian waters this week and kidnapped three crew, security sources said on

March 7, 2013
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News

DP World Continues Divestment Streak, Exits Hong Kong

By Dinesh Nair DUBAI (Reuters) – Ports operator DP World Limited is selling its stakes in two container terminals and a logistics centre in Hong Kong for

March 7, 2013
Total Views: 74

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Uncategorized

DryShips Loss Widens

March 6 (Reuters) – DryShips Inc reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss as voyage revenue in its drybulk carriers business fell. Shares of

March 6, 2013
Total Views: 27

Finance

Samsung Heavy Cancels $2.4 Billion FLNG Order, Battle Over Down Payment Continues

By Oleg Vukmanovic and Joyce Lee LONDON/SEOUL, March 6 (Reuters) – South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries on Wednesday cancelled a $2.39

March 6, 2013
Total Views: 93

Finance

Danish Shipper Norden Just Barely Makes a Fourth Quarter Profit

COPENHAGEN, March 6 (Reuters) – Danish shipping company Norden on Wednesday reported a slim fourth quarter operating profit but said it expected markets

March 6, 2013
Total Views: 20

Finance

All Metrics Point Toward Sustained Prosperity for Bourbon, Fleet Growth Continues

By James Regan and Benjamin Mallet PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) – France’s Bourbon SA, which supplies ships for the oil and gas industry, sees

March 6, 2013
Total Views: 58

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Uncategorized

European Ports Spearhead Movement for Greater LNG Bunkering Infrastructure

By Henning Gloystein and Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) – North European ports are leading a switch to natural gas as a cleaner way to power

March 5, 2013
Total Views: 59

Warmer Climate To Open New Arctic Shipping Routes By 2050, Study Shows
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Warmer Climate To Open New Arctic Shipping Routes By 2050, Study Shows

By Environment Correspondent Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The quickest way to get goods from Asia to the U.S. East Coast in 2050 might well

March 5, 2013
Total Views: 87

Monday, March 4, 2013
News

ExxonMobil Beats BP to the Arctic, Again

By Melissa Akin MOSCOW (Reuters) – BP, which lost its first deal to drill for oil in Russia’s Arctic to ExxonMobil, tried to negotiate a new deal

March 4, 2013
Total Views: 50

News

Archer Daniels Midland Mistakenly Uses Iranian Ship to Transport Grain

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Archer Daniels Midland Co unwittingly used a vessel controlled by a sanctioned Iranian shipping firm last

March 4, 2013
Total Views: 86

Blog

Shipping Containers Provide Meager Accommodations in Shanghai [IMAGES]

A child stands at the door of a shipping container serving as his accommodation, in Shanghai March 4, 2013. The containers, which house different families,

March 4, 2013
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Cargill Makes First Grain Shipment Using Electronic Bill Of Lading

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Mar 1 (Reuters) – Cargill made its first grain shipment using an electronic freight document this week as the U.S. agribusiness

March 1, 2013
Total Views: 127

News

Political Pressure Forces India’s Mercator Lines to Halt Shipments of Iranian Oil

By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Mercator Lines has stopped offering a ship for transporting Iranian oil to India due to U.S. political

March 1, 2013
Total Views: 39

Multimedia

Ship Photo of the Day: Cranes Arrive at DP World London Gateway Aboard the Zhen Hua 26

Large cranes arrive on board a transport ship at a global shipping port being constructed in Stanford-le-Hope near London March 1, 2013. Three of the five

March 1, 2013
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