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By Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) – China’s Sinopec Corp is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month,

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday eased safety rules on offshore oil and gas production put in place after the deadly

European shipowners are asking for more capacity to be added to the EU list of approved ship recycling facilities that will come into play next year with entry

International shipping association BIMCO is fast-tracking the publishing of its first clause related to the International Maritime Organization’s 2020

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The UK’s two biggest container ports appear to have hit crisis level. UK retailers potentially face weeks of

By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Ron Bousso NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Nexen Petroleum, a unit of China’s CNOOC Ltd, plans to exit the United

By Mohammed Aly Sergie (Bloomberg) — Qatar will generate $40 billion in additional export revenue once it completes its natural gas expansion

By Tim Kelly ABOARD THE KAGA, Indian Ocean, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Japan’s biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The Mississippi River closed to vessel traffic north of St. Louis on Wednesday after barges carrying loads

Japanese shipping group MOL has tested an artificial intelligence (A.I.) system aimed at improving safe watch keeping on board a ferry operating in one of

By Sherry Su and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — The person charged with overseeing controversial new rules on shipping fuel says he’s growing increasingly

Denmark-based offshore wind turbine maker MHI Vestas says it has broken the industry’s double-digit power barrier with the release of the world’s

The world’s top shipping line Maersk has implemented new guidelines on the stowage of dangerous goods after a review of its safety procedures in the

Sept 26 (Reuters) – State-owned Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd’s initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to 3.45 billion rupees

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – As crude oil races towards $100 a barrel, the European Shippers’ Council has called for “a market approach”

The offshore supply vessel (OSV) sector continues to be in serious trouble despite a rebound in oil prices as too many vessels compete for limited business

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has joined its rivals Maersk Line and CMA CGM in announcing a new bunker fuel surcharge to be imposed on its customers to

Approximately 80% coastal member states of the United Nations have some form of cabotage laws governing foreign maritime activity in their domestic coastal

By Michel Rose PARIS/LISBON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – France, Portugal, Spain and Germany struck a deal on Tuesday to take in migrants from the Mediterranean

Liberia has submitted a paper to the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) calling for early reporting on the availability of fuel oil that is