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By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – The port of Hamburg is continuing to lose ground to its North European container competitors, with another

Finnish technology firm Wärtsilä and De Beers Marine, the offshore mining unit of the world’s largest diamond miner, have signed an agreement to

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Right before Norway’s biggest oil project in decades got the go-ahead in 2015, crude prices fell off a cliff.

By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Hawaii residents already reeling from months of explosive eruptions from Kilauea volcano braced on

German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has floated out the world’s first LNG-powered cruise ship from its covered construction dock in Papenburg. The float-out

Danish shipping giant Maersk is getting ready to send one of its newbuild ice-class feeder ships through the Northern Sea Route – a first for the

Finnish shipping company ESL Shipping has taken delivery of what is being touted as the world’s most eco-friendly bulk carrier. The 160-meter, 25,600

With a load of 19,038 TEU, the Maersk Line ultra-large containership Mumbai Maersk has set a new world record for the largest load ever carried by

BUDAPEST, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Water levels on the Danube dropped to record lows on three sections of the river in Hungary on Wednesday due to a recent

SYDNEY, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Australia’s government has cancelled the live export licence of the country’s biggest livestock shipper, Emanuel

By Angus MacSwan DAKAR, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A tanker vessel with 19 crew members on board, most of them Georgians, has gone missing in pirate-plagued

Conrad Industries has delivered the first LNG bunker barge built in North America. The vessel, named Clean Jacksonville, was constructed in Orange, Texas at

By Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — Northwest European liquefied natural gas terminals are for the first time exporting more of the fuel than they are

The following is a Safety Alert issued today by the United States Coast Guard regarding the safety of pilot gangways and ladders after a ship pilot

Offshore wind turbine maker MHI Vestas says it has received an order to supply and install 100 9.5 MW wind turbine generators at the Moray East

By David Stringer and Rishaad Salamat (Bloomberg) — The U.S. risks losing out from its curbs on trade as rival nations including China will seek to do

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s shipowners are shunning Iran’s oil, while the OPEC producer is using its own tankers to supply top customers

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on two Russian shipping companies and six vessels it said were involved

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Demand for high sulphur marine fuels is likely to see a smaller drop than previously expected by 2020,

A British woman was rescued from the Adriatic Sea on Sunday 10 hours after going overboard from a cruise ship. The woman, a tourist named Kay Longstaff, 46,