Shipping News

By Elisa Miebach (Bloomberg) –Two shipping brothers on Germany’s Rhine faced a dilemma that has become increasingly common on Europe’s most important

By Waruna Karunatilake COLOMBO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s navy said on Tuesday that an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump is set to endorse an extended ban on offshore oil development on

The MOL Charisma is back underway today following a fire in a cargo hold earlier this month off Sri Lanka. Hapag-Lloyd confirmed the incident in a Sept 3

A joint venture involving Russian firms SCF Group and NOVATEK has placed an order for 10 icebreaking LNG carriers to support the Arctic LNG 2 project along the

A lawsuit has been filed in Nueces County on behalf of Jose Cantu, a worker who was “seriously injured and burned on August 21, 2020, in an explosion and

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) –Just six months ago, oil supertankers experienced a windfall as the pandemic slashed demand for crude and traders raced to

The International Chamber of Shipping is calling on the International Maritime Organization to urgently intervene in the case of Maersk Etienne, which is

TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Japan has told Mauritius it would offer support on an “unprecedented scale”, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi

COPENHAGEN, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The captain of a tanker that rescued 27 migrants at sea, including a pregnant woman, is calling for immediate help as

Sept 5 (Reuters) – A boat parade in support of U.S. President Donald Trump crowded Lake Travis in Texas on Saturday, generating waves and choppy waters

TOKYO, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Japan’s coastguard on Saturday suspended its search for crew missing from a cattle ship in the East China Sea due to bad

The fire onboard the tanker New Diamond carrying 2 million barrels of oil has been put out, the Sri Lankan Navy has confirmed Saturday. The Panama-flagged New

by Gus Trompiz (Reuters) – Container shipping group CMA CGM on Friday reported higher second-quarter profits and said it expects results to improve again

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has issued four safety recommendations in its 34-page final report from the agency’s years-long

CARACAS, Sept 3 (Reuters) – An idled oil storage facility off Venezuela’s eastern coast is in “satisfactory” condition, an official

A VLCC carrying 2 million barrels of oil has caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka with one crew member reported missing. The Panama-flagged New Diamond

Sept 3 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp’s shares surged 11% on Thursday after its Italian brand Costa Cruises said two of its ships would resume sailing

OSLO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Seatankers, the powerful holding company of Norwegian-born billionaire John Fredriksen, said on Thursday it had hired a veteran

By Junko Fujita and Praveen Menon TOKYO/WELLINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – More than 40 crew members were missing after a ship carrying cattle from New