Shipping News

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – As melting sea ice opens the Arctic to navigation, more ships are plying the loosely regulated polar waters,

By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Oil and gas exports from the United States have been severely disrupted by Hurricane Laura, with nearly a

This is a wild video… Apparently a group of U.S. Coast Guard crew members from the USCGC Kimball were having a little swim time while deployed in Oceania

By Ben Blanchard Aug 27 (Reuters) – The United States and China traded jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies,

By Krystal Chia and Annie Lee There’s hardly anyone buying new ships, with orders plunging to a 20-year low due to a potent combination of uncertainty over

By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The cause of death of 27 dolphins that washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill remains

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) Ocean carriers are scrambling to charter larger containerships to take advantage of skyrocketing freight rates caused by a spike

By Scott DiSavino and Jessica Jaganathan NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Loadings of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from the United States likely will

WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – A United States Navy sailor is under investigation for possible arson aboard a warship that caught fire last month and

The Italian Coast Guard said it rescued 17 people from a yacht before it sank off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. The incident took place Tuesday as the 155-foot

By Susan Heavey, Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday blacklisted 24 Chinese companies

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Laura intensified into a strong Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday as it raced over evacuated oil production

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) –The U.S. Gulf Coast is bracing for Hurricane Laura, which has grow into a powerful Category 4 storm that’s poised to

By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Seventeen dead dolphins washed up on Mauritius’s shore on Wednesday, a government official

The United States’ only medium icebreaker USCGC Healy has suffered a fire and propulsion failure while en route to the Arctic. The U.S. Coast Guard

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China reaffirmed their commitment to the phase-one trade deal in a biannual review, demonstrating a

The bodies of two missing crew members from the dredging vessel Waymon L Boyd have been recovered after a portion of the vessel was recovered from the Corpus

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. energy industry on Tuesday was preparing for a major hurricane strike, cutting crude production at a

By Lefteris Papadimas and Tuvan Gumrukcu ATHENS/ANKARA, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Germany’s top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and

TOKYO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping, which owns the bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius and caused a large oil