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Feb 28 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, tumbled on Tuesday,

OSLO, Feb 28 (Reuters) – ** Dry bulk shipper Golden Ocean’s CEO Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal says industry now faces more positive outlook after

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” 9 percent increase in military

Update: Jag Laadki Captain Banned from Fujairah One of the world’s largest most advanced LNG carriers has suffered some serious damage after

Officials in Ecuador are coordinating the environmental response and salvage of the general cargo ship Isla Bartolome, which ran aground and partially sank

JERUSALEM, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Israel’s State Attorney has ordered the opening of a criminal investigation into the awarding of a maritime

By David Stringer and Danielle Bochove (Bloomberg) — The head of the world’s biggest mining company intensified his warnings that U.S. trade

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container lines should follow the example of Maersk Line and negotiate deferring new vessel deliveries. Analyst Drewry

By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the Navy withdrew from consideration on Sunday, the second time

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Another week, another record for U.S. crude exports. Producers and traders shipped out 1.21 million barrels of crude a day

The damaged tug Samson Mariner is returning to Seattle, Washington for repairs after running aground last week while towing a barge in Alaska’s Inside

A federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina convicted two chief engineers of the vessel, TV Green Sky, on pollution charges related to use of a ‘magic

An American car carrier with 21 crew members suffered a fire aboard while underway in the English Channel en route to Baltimore from Southampton. The

The Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, Esben Poulsson, laid out Friday what the industry would like to see from the International Maritime

By Karl Plume and Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Feb 23 (Reuters) – A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New

Here’s a new upload from maritime Youtuber JeffHK, in which he offers up his thoughts on why maritime SUCKS, or least discusses

By Joe Ryan and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Offshore wind companies have spent years struggling to convince skeptics that the future of U.S.

By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – U.K.-regulated ship insurers are preparing plans to open new outposts in European Union

By Mark Tay SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Traders are selling oil held in tankers anchored off Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in a sign that the