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LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The Iranian navy will send warships to deploy in the Atlantic from March, a top commander said on Friday, as the Islamic

A fire has broke out aboard a Hapag-Lloyd containership in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Canada. In a statement posted to its website, Hapag-Lloyd

By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Dutch authorities will hold Swiss shipping line MSC liable for the cost of cleaning up debris from more

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Work began on Thursday to extend a small British port that could serve as a back-up if the UK leaves the

A Chinese fish carrier with 24 crew is aground on an uninhabited atoll in the Marshall Islands. The ship, identified as the 308-foot Chinese-flagged commercial

Authorities in Germany and the Netherlands are continuing to respond to the loss of an estimated 270 containers from the mega containership MSC ZOE in the

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the active search for one remaining unaccounted for crewmember of the Sincerity Ace. Good Samaritans from four merchant

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 3 (Reuters) – High-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) volumes traded in S&P Global Platts’ Singapore price

The U.S. Coast Guard with the Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing Company continue to respond to a tug and barge accident on the Ohio River in

Update (1/3/2019): MSC ZOE Docks in Germany as Search for Containers Continues The Dutch Coastguard has issued a navigational warning after an ultra-large

We have obtained satellite AIS data showing the car carrier Sincerity Ace and the commercial response that followed after the vessel suffered a major fire

By Andrew MacAskill and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s transport minister has defended awarding a 14 million-pound ($18 million)

Update (1/2/2019): AIS Animation Shows Commercial Response The U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and two merchant vessels are continuing searching for two missing crew

Update (1/2/2019): AIS Animation Shows Commercial Response Update (1/1/2019): Sincerity Ace Abandoned in Pacific Ocean  The U.S. Coast Guard and several

Shell Australia announced this week it has opened the wells at its massive Prelude FLNG facility located off Western Australia. The Floating Liquefied Natural

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The penultimate reading from the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) for 2018 saw continued erosion of spot

By Sharon Smyth (Bloomberg) — The U.K. has awarded contracts worth 108 million pounds ($137.2 million) to charter extra ferries for freight shipments

By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will resume commercial whaling from July in its waters and exclusive economic zone while

By Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The U.S. may be exporting natural gas at a record clip, but that hasn’t stopped it from accepting imports of the

By The Editors (Bloomberg Opinion) — Shipping is the lifeblood of global commerce — more than 80 percent of world trade goes by water. But the industry