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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

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Swiss-headquartered MSC expects to pay over $2 billion a year in fuel costs due to tougher global marine fuel rules and will

By Enda Curran (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China trade war truce is a clear boost for slowing global growth. Most economists had already factored into

By Laurence Arnold(Bloomberg) — George H.W. Bush, the U.S. president who fashioned a restrained response to the Soviet Union’s collapse and

By Serene Cheong and Dan Murtaugh (Bloomberg) — There’s a rising star in the oil world, and it’s heavy and sweet. Dense, low-sulfur oil,

By Hugh Bronstein and Karl Plume BUENOS AIRES/CHICAGO, Nov 30 (Reuters) – A ship named the Torrent is nearing the end of a 5,000-mile trip carrying

The largest containership ship ever constructed in the United States arrived in Honolulu for the first time this week as part of its regular service connecting

By Kyle Stock (Bloomberg) — If all goes as planned with the scheduled SpaceX launch Sunday, a startup called HawkEye 360 will have a trio of satellites

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) will ban the discharge of “wash water”

By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Allowing ship-to-ship transfers in Norwegian waters from Yamal in Arctic Russia, one of the

The Accident Investigation Board of Norway (AIBN) released Thursday its preliminary report on its investigation into the November 8 collision involving the

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä says it has successfully tested the fully autonomous operation of a ferry on a route in Norway in what is believed to be

Australia ordered that all cattle be removed from a Panama-flagged livestock carrier after the vessel ran into stability issues shortly after leaving port last

Crowley Maritime Corporation announced this week its plan to complete the merger of its liner services group into Crowley Logistics. Crowley says merger will

By Thomas Escritt and Andrew Osborn BERLIN/MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin on

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Ocean Network Express (ONE) management “underestimated the initial launch resource requirement” in April,