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By Gavin van Marle – DP World has completed its acquisition of European feeder and shortsea shipping line Unifeeder after this week securing clearance

The European Commission has updated its list of approved ship recycling facilities in line with new rules that come into force next year under the EU Ship

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — America turned into a net oil exporter last week, breaking 75 years of continued dependence on foreign oil and marking a

By Stephen Stapczynski, Alfred Cang and Dan Murtaugh (Bloomberg) — China may be girding itself to buy more U.S. gas and soybeans amid easing

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Nordea Bank aims to increase shipping finance activities to the growing liquefied natural gas (LNG)industry,

By Meng Meng and Florence Tan BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Chinese oil trader Unipec plans to resume U.S. crude shipments to China by March after

On December 6, 2018, the CATO Institute is hosting a conference, entitled – “The Jones Act: Charting a new Course after a Century of Failure”. This forum

A subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions has announced the its marine fuel-gas system for liquified hydrogen has been granted preliminary approval in principle

French shipping giant CMA CGM has signed up to become the first ocean carrier listed on the online freight marketplace Freightos. CMA CGM described the move as

By Polina Ivanova BERDYANSK, Ukraine, Dec 5 (Reuters) – When the Island Bay cargo ship arrived from Beirut at the Kerch Strait, gateway to the Azov

Maersk sets ambitious net Zero CO2 emission target by 2050.  Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk, owner of the world’s largest shipping line,

As part of campaign highlighting the need for immediate action to reduce the impacts of fossil fuel-driven climate change, Finnish technology group Wärtsilä

SYDNEY, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Australia’s livestock exporters will stop shipping live sheep to the Middle East for three months each year from 2019, an

By Brian Parkin (Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is bowing to industry pressure to boost Germany’s offshore wind capacity, already

KIEV, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Tuesday it had resumed grain shipments from the Azov Sea, blocked for around 10 days after a military standoff

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – BIMCO, the world’s largest shipping association, is finalising a cyber security clause for charter party

By Ekaterina Kravtsova LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Inflated spot charter rates for liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers are easing as more ships becoming

By Florence Tan and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) – China imported its first U.S. crude oil cargo in around two months last week,

The autonomous operation of the ferry Falco comes after another ferry, named Folgefonn, was successfully tested in Norway.  Rolls-Royce and Finnish

By Eric Knecht DOHA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Qatar said on Monday it was quitting OPEC from January to focus on its gas ambitions, taking a swipe at the