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By Tom Miles GENEVA, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Japan has launched a complaint at the World Trade Organization to contest what it says is illegal financial

The saga of the unlit section of dry dock that has been floating around the Atlantic Ocean for more than a year now may finally be coming to a

Pirates in a speed boat chased and fired on an LNG tanker last week off the coast of Bonny, Nigeria, the IMB Piracy Reporting Center has confirmed. The

Dutch engineering group Royal IHC has launched the world’s largest cutter suction dredger being built for Belgian dredging firm DEME. The vessel, named

DUBAI, Nov 12 (Reuters) – Iran’s armed forces will protect Iranian oil tankers against any threats, an Iranian military official said on Monday

By Sabina Zawadzki LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) – A new ice-breaking tanker capable of navigating the Arctic on its own is set to load its first

The fully-rigged sailing ship Christian Radich has left Damen Shiprepair Harlingen (DSH) in the Netherlands after undergoing five weeks of repairs and

Check out this an AIS animation below showing Thursday’s collision between an oil tanker and a Norwegian frigate taking place in the Hjeltefjorden fjord

By Dan Murtaugh, Stephen Stapczynski and Aibing Guo (Bloomberg) — Buy high, sell low and guarantee a loss. It’s not exactly what Toshiba Corp. planned

“Blockchain” is now a familiar word, even if a large portion of us in the shipping industry are not actually using such technology yet. But, is

Nov 8 (Reuters) – The captain of the World War Two-style tourist “duck boat” that sank on a Missouri lake during a storm in July, killing 17

By Kieran Guilbert and Magdalena Mis LONDON, Nov 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A North Korean labourer has filed a landmark criminal complaint

Four fisherman have been rescued after their fishing vessel capsized in the English Channel approximately 14 nautical miles south of Eastbourne, England on

By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (Reuters) – German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd expects an increase in transport volumes to last for the remainder of 2018

By Ron Bousso LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Italian refiner Saras is constructing a ship-refueling terminal at its Sardinia plant and will market a new,

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared divided on Wednesday as they weighed an effort by Sudan, backed

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Tuesday’s announcement that five shipping lines and four terminal operators are to form a consortium to develop a

Rising bunker prices and low shipping rates negatively impacted Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s earnings in the third quarter. The Norwegian shipping group

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Mining giant BHP Billiton expects some interruption to its Australian iron ore exports after a nearly

By Marwa Rashad RIYADH, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Bahri is targeting acquisitions in Asia and the Middle East as the exclusive oil shipper