Shipping News

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Container shipping group CMA CGM is to increase its use of sustainable marine bio-fuel oil through a supply deal with Royal

ATHENS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Pirates have released three crew taken hostage from a Greek oil tanker off the coast of the West African country of Togo in

At the end of each summer, a specialized unit of the United States Army Corps of Engineers get to work on the Mississippi River laying thousands of slabs of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Another containership fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber) is added to the global fleet every 10 hours,

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –Shippers have fewer than three weeks until new rules kick in forcing them to burn cleaner fuels, but the regulations are

A unified command has been established to oversee the salvage of a grounded fishing vessel near an off-limits U.S. military live-fire training area in North

Hamburg-based SAL Heavy Lift is moving forward with a project to install six of its vessels with new emissions-reducing hydrogen/methanol injection technology.

MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) – At least one military serviceman was killed and 12 people were injured by a fire at Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Faced with imminent new global marine pollution rules, shipping companies and insurers are puzzling over the

Freeport LNG become the latest terminal to begin exporting U.S.-produced natural gas to overseas markets.  Freeport LNG announced Monday it has commenced

Pirate in the Gulf of Guinea have released nine seafarers kidnapped from a J.J. Ugland bulk carrier last month off the coast of Benin. The nine Filipino

The world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier has been launched at Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Kobe Works shipyard in Japan. The vessel, named Suiso

By Andrew R.C. Marshall OXFORD, England, Dec 11 (Reuters) – On November 14, 1881, an American called George Melville limped across a frozen delta in

The fifteenth and final icebreaking LNG carrier responsible for shipping gas from the remote Yamal LNG terminal in the Russian Arctic has now been delivered.

ABU DHABI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The capacity of Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Port will increase by 50% by the end of 2020 as part of a 3.8 billion dirham

NEW YORK/MADRID, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change,

Throughput volumes at the United States’ busiest container port, the Port of Los Angeles, declined as predicted in November as the U.S.-China Trade War

Arctic ecosystems and communities are increasingly at risk due to continued warming and declining sea ice, according NOAA’s 2019 Arctic Report Card. By

Embattled French offshore services group Bourbon is reviewing a takeover offer from Société Phocéenne de Participation, a company owned by a group of French

Iceland is moving to ban the use of heavy fuel oil as the Nordic island nation looks to clean up air quality in and around its coastal areas.  The