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By Vera Eckert and Maria Sheahan HAMBURG, March 28 (Reuters) – Demand for shipping is growing and could outpace the supply of new vessels next year,

Check out this a new time-lapse video released by NOAA showing the four back-to-back nor’easter winter storms that impacted the U.S. East Coast in March

By Sara Clemence (Bloomberg) — Visits to secluded islands. Long, leisurely port calls. A crew that intuits whether you’re in the mood for a

The world’s biggest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s new Symphony of the Seas, made her worldwide debut on Tuesday at the port of Malaga in Spain. At

Maritime authorities in Denmark are investigation a collision between a containership and a bulk carrier in Denmark’s Great Belt, which caused some

Australia has banned the Liberian-flagged containership MSC Kia Ora from its ports for three months due violations of international crew welfare laws after the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Within two years it will be illegal to power a ship with fuel having more than 0.5% sulphur content, unless the

By Ryan Collins, Scarlet Fu and Julia Chatterley (Bloomberg) — What would it take for China to reduce its trade gap with the U.S.? Buy more natural gas,

By James Pearson and Greg Torode HANOI/HONG KONG, March 27 (Reuters) – Dozens of Chinese naval vessels are exercising this week with an aircraft carrier

ABIDJAN, March 27 (Reuters) – Djibouti’s port authority is in talks with French shipping company CMA CGM to develop a new $660 million container

American inland shipyard Jeffboat will be shutting its doors after more than 180 years in the ship and barge building industry, the shipbuilder confirmed

The first two super post-Panamax cranes for the Port of Philadelphia arrived at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal on Saturday after a ninety-day journey from

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – With Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) about to launch an Asia-North Europe service deploying panamax-size vessels, maritime

Yet another containership mishap was caught on video over the weekend and it has already racked up tens of thousands of views online in just a few days. This

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — China’s decision to give its top military body control over the country’s vast coast guard has increased

By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee SEOUL, March 26 (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea agreed to revise a trade pact sharply criticized by U.S.

By Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — The numbers came in earlier this month on Maine’s 2017 lobster harvest. By historical standards, the 110.8

By Angelina Rascouet (Bloomberg) — Being a top female earner for a major integrated oil company is a rarity, but among the smaller explorers

SINGAPORE, March 26 (Reuters) – Commodities trader Trafigura will install scrubbers on its fleet of newbuild tankers to comply with new regulations from

By Jason Koutsoukis (Bloomberg) — As the U.S. and China edge closer to a full-blown trade war, Canada has urged all nations to act to preserve