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(Reuters) Russia has deployed a naval unit to the Mediterranean Sea, it said on Thursday, a move President Vladimir Putin said was to defend Russian security

The Mississippi River was reopened on Thursday along a five-mile stretch near St. Louis as waters receded after one of the worst floods on record halted barge

Britain's competition watchdog has barred France's Groupe Eurotunnel from docking its ferries at Dover for at least two years over purchase of three

Pirates have released five Pakistani crew they kidnapped from an oil tanker off the Nigerian coast two weeks

Shipping magnate John Fredriksen sees no quick turnaround on the market for crude oil tankers, but is more optimistic about the outlook for other arms of his

A code regulating shipping in the high Arctic, where maritime traffic is expected to increase as the ice cap recedes, is due to be implemented in

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The U.S. Senate voted on Monday to make only a minor change in the main U.S. global food aid program, rebuffing President Barack Obama's call for the biggest

West African heads of state will meet, maybe as soon as this month, to adopt a code to fight growing piracy in their coastal waters that would include use of

Leading ship owners said on Tuesday new environmental legislation is set to cost their industry over $500 billion in coming

By Karl Plume June 3 (Reuters) – The Mississippi River was effectively closed to barge traffic from northern Iowa to St. Louis as flooding shuttered

(Reuters) STX Group, formerly Ssangyong Heavy Industries, shares tumbled on Monday morning after an official at Woori Bank said the company is considering a

LONDON, May 31 (Reuters) – Lloyds Banking Group is looking to sell an estimated $500 million tranche of its shipping loans as it continues to shrink its

By Balazs Koranyi NY-AALESUND, Norway, May 31 (Reuters) – The high Arctic, once the irresistible frontier for oil and gas exploration, is quickly losing

By Dave Sherwood FREEPORT, Maine, May 30 (Reuters) – An invasion of European green crabs, encouraged by rising ocean temperatures, is eating its way

Ships on the world's busiest waterways face growing threats to their satellite navigation systems, including jamming

By Balazs Koranyi OSLO, May 30 (Reuters) – Frontline Ltd, the tanker arm of shipping tycoon John Fredriksen’s business empire, expects losses to

An in-depth look at the spread of piracy across the oil-rich Gulf of

Shipping along the Arctic northern sea route is set to grow more than 30-fold over the next eight years and could account for a quarter of the cargo traffic

COPENHAGEN, May 29 (Reuters) – The oil unit of Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said one of its floating Gryphon oil production platforms