Shipping News

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A new report estimates that over the past 21 years the container industry has “destroyed” about $110bn of

By Christian Wienberg and Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest container shipping line is trying to stop customers like

By Tom Miles GENEVA, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Global trade in goods will continue growing above trend during the second quarter, the World Trade

By Mathew Carr and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — Asia’s rapacious thirst for liquefied natural gas is sucking supplies from surprising places. China

By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Bit by bit, the U.S. petroleum industry is turning world oil markets inside out. First, sharp drops in

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk’s move to focus on transport and jettison oil was tested on Friday as

The above satellite image was captured on by a NASA satellite on January 16, 2018 and shows criss-crossing cloud bands caused by ships in the

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries says it has been awarded an order to build eight New-Panamax containerships for an undisclosed Asian owner.

SINGAPORE, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Two employees of Brightoil Petroleum (Singapore) Pte Ltd were charged in court in the city-state this week for their alleged

By Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Buyers of Indonesian coal are holding back orders of the fuel after the government issued

By Catherine Ngai, Libby George and Florence Tan NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE, Feb 8 (Reuters) – In the two years since Washington lifted a 40-year ban

Finland’s Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has delivered the fourth icebreaker in a four-vessel series for Russian shipping company SCF Group (Sovcomflot). The

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on its investigation into the sinking of the American cargo ship SS El Faro on

Offshore oil and gas industry service provider Aker Solutions is expanding into the offshore floating wind market through an investment in Emeryville,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Alphaliner’s analysis of Ocean Network Express’s Day ONE service network from April 1 – outside THE Alliance

Dubai-based terminal operator DP World has announced a record volume of just over 70 million TEU across its global portfolio of container terminals in 2017,

By Manuel Mogato MANILA, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has banned all foreign scientific research off the country’s

By Hyonhee Shin and Elaine Lies SEOUL/MUKHO PORT, Feb 6 (Reuters) – A North Korean ferry arrived in South Korea on Tuesday carrying a 140-strong

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thai fishing boat owners who trap workers on board ships and withhold wages often do not

Hamburg-based shipping magnate Erck Rickmers has announced he is selling his ship management and ship brokerage businesses to Bremen-based Zeaborn Group.