Shipping News

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — BG Group Plc, pioneer of natural-gas shipping, will trade on stock exchanges for the last time on Friday, 19 years after

OSLO, Feb 11 (Reuters) – As much as one third of the global offshore fleet of oil drilling rigs could be idled in 2016 as energy firms scale back

The U.S. Coast Guard says it will inspect the storm-damaged Royal Caribbean cruise ship Anthem of the Seas upon its scheduled return to New York Harbor

By Joe Ryan (Bloomberg) — Dong Energy A/S, the world’s largest offshore-wind developer, agreed to acquire a lease for a site off the coast of New

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Leading shipping container groups Maersk, MSC and 13 other firms have offered to change their pricing

By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk tumbled to a loss of $2.5 billion in the last three months of 2015

The world’s leading designer of membrane containment systems has linked up one of the world’s biggest shipbuilders to advance the commercial

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The jury is out as to whether the dramatic fall in oil prices in the past two years has produced a net benefit

By Suzi Ring (Bloomberg) — A conman posing as a millionaire London trader who defrauded a Dutch shipping company of 100 million euros ($113 million) was

The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance February 5th that allows mariners to use electronic charts and publications instead of paper charts, maps and

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A British-led initiative to create a back-up to satellite navigation systems for ships has been pulled after

An Indonesian cargo ship has been banned from Australian waters for the second time in less than twelve months and following five detentions in just over 3

By Michael McDonald (Bloomberg) — Manuel Coronel Kautz isn’t a man who’s easily deterred. Good thing. Because as head of Nicaragua’s Canal

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Two top senators on defense issues say U.S. Navy leaders should consider delaying deployment of the new Littoral Combat

One of the world’s biggest containerships remains hard aground in Germany’s Elbe River just outside the shipping channel leading to the port of

By Tony Tamuno and Paul Wallace (Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s navy foiled an attempt by pirates to hijack a container ship operated by A.P. Moeller-Maersk

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and officials from Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) announced Monday the company is locating shipbuilding operations at

By David Wethe (Bloomberg) — Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. is turning over care and handling of the massive rig safety devices designed to stop well

Feb 8 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying industrial commodities, registered a new

By Sam Whelan (The Loadstar) Maersk Line is preparing an awareness campaign to alert shippers to container weighing regulations that come