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U.S. Coast Guard units in the Northeast and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Law Enforcement personnel are increasing focus this

By Karl Plume and P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, May 2 (Reuters) – Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and

By Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. defended its contract with tiny Guyana as the oil major pushes to speed up production from the world’s

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container lessors are enjoying a purple patch, as demand remains strong, driven by solid growth in global container

Lloyd’s Register (LR), WorleyParsons, and Ardent have teamed up to launch a new consortium targeting the global oil and gas decommissioning market. The

DP World and Virgin Hyperloop One have partnered to create new global company seeking to revolutionize global freight transportation using the futuristic

The Big Oil playbook has been straightforward for decades: Higher prices mean offshore projects that are further, deeper, more complex than ever before. It’s

Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa has set a new world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. The record-setting ride took place last November when Koxa was towed

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese shipping groups K Line, MOL and NYK, now operating as the Ocean Network Express (ONE) joint-venture, have

Of the 206 ships dismantled worldwide up in in the first quarter of 2018, a total 152 ships ended up on beaches in South Asia, according to a quarterly

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — Kirk Kapital, a wealth fund owned by members of the Lego family, will sell its five product tankers after the vessels

The final module of the Johan Sverdrup riser platform was lifted into place by the heavy lift vessel Thialf. With the installation, the first of four topsides

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 26 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) is set to announce it is making use of

by Josephine Mason (Reuters) – A vessel carrying 70,223 tonnes of sorghum from the United States to Asia switched its destination on Thursday, data

By Ryan Collins (Bloomberg) — The giant Japanese gas tanker LNG Sakura is doing its share to appease President Donald Trump’s frustration

Spanish authorities seized nearly nine tons of cocaine found in a container on board a ship at the port of Algeciras. So far five people have been arrested in

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange, owned by Singapore Exchange, plans to launch new indexes for grains, gas and

A heavy lift ship carrying four giant ship-to-shore cranes is at anchor off Brooklyn, New York awaiting the green light to pass below the Verrazano-Narrows

By Maha El Dahan and Karl Plume DUBAI/CHICAGO, April 24 (Reuters) – Four U.S. sorghum shipments initially bound for China have been diverted to other

SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) – The port of Rotterdam expects to see its first ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in