Shipping News

By The Editors (Bloomberg View) — The shipping industry accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than airplanes, buses or trains. Yet it was not

The world’s three biggest cruise ships, Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis-class ships Oasis of the Seas, Allure of the Seas and the new

By Libby George LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A switch to cleaner fuels in the world’s ships in 2020 could double the profits of the world’s most

gCaptain is extremely saddened to report that Amy Beavers, Academic Principal and Vice President of Regulatory Compliance at Maritime Professional

Somali pirates launched their first attacked on a merchant vessel in more than two and a half years, the European Union’s counter piracy operation

TORONTO, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal government will this year deliver on its pledge for a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Britain’s BAE Systems said on Friday it had agreed with the UK government that the manufacturing of eight new

By Steve Slater LONDON, Nov 4 (IFR) – Pillarstone, the platform set up by US private equity firm KKR to buy non-core bank assets in Europe, looks set to

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Unknown assailants who opened fire on a gas tanker last week off the coast of Yemen were also carrying a

(Drewry) – If Asian buyers continue to divert their contracted supply from the US towards Europe and Latin America, it will reduce demand for LNG vessels

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Ocean Alliance, which next April will be the biggest of the three vessel-sharing alliances, has published its

SINGAPORE, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Rig builder Keppel Corp said on Thursday it would subscribe to a bond offer by KrisEnergy Ltd, potentially increasing its

Icelandic shipping company Eimskip has entered into an agreement to aquire Norwegian shipping and logistics company Nor Lines. Eimskip described Nor Lines as a

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line remained in the red in the third quarter, today reporting a net loss of $116m on the back of a 16%

The Panama Canal Authority has launched a new program that incentivizes its customers to use more energy efficient ships when using the waterway. The

By Chris Bryant (Bloomberg Gadfly) — It’s hard to think of two more challenged industries than oil and shipping. AP Moller-Maersk A/S’s

By Chris Blake and Shamim Adam (Bloomberg) — Malaysia said it will buy at least four Littoral Mission Ships from China as Prime Minister Najib Razak

By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Pakistani firefighters were battling on Wednesday to douse a fire still raging more than a day after

Editor’s Note: A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S published its Interim Report for Q3 2016 on Wednesday, 2 November 2016, reporting that its third

British Columbia’s Heiltsuk Nation says it is hopeful that it can begin working with the Canadian government on responding to the oil spill from the