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The Chinese government has reportedly approved the long-anticipated merger between two of China’s largest shipping groups, China Ocean Shipping

By Manisha Jha (Bloomberg) — Investors betting that China’s near- insatiable appetite for industrial raw materials will drive global economic growth

By Mike Wackett,  (The Loadstar) On the assumption that CMA CGM’s acquisition of NOL receives the approval of anti-trust authorities next year,

By Kathy Chen and Keith Wallis BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Dec 10(Reuters) – China will introduce tough controls on ship emissions at three key port areas from

Dec 10 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities fell on Thursday reflecting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsh5pgJCup8 This is a fabulous example of the dangers inexperienced boaters inadvertently putting themselves in harms way

A master’s reliance on scanty VHF information and another’s failure to keep a proper lookout contributed to a collision between a containership and

A draft climate agreement resulting from 11 days of negotiations at the COP21 climate talks in Paris and published Wednesday afternoon makes no explicit

A German warship a collided with a containership in Germany’s Kiel Canal Wednesday morning, causing damage to both vessels. Reports say the German Navy

As gCaptain has reported, the outbound City of Rotterdam was severely damaged following a collision December 4th with a the inbound DFDS ro-ro ferry

Vale S.A. and a consortium led by ICBC Financial Leasing, a 100 percent owned subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have

OSLO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – BW LPG, the world’s biggest liquid petroleum gas (LPG) shipper, has bought 12.1 percent of smaller rival Aurora LPG,

The U.S. Coast Guard say it is continuing to respond to the loss of containers from the towed barge Columbia Elizabeth, which reported losing multiple

By Roslan Khasawneh and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ship fuel prices have plummeted to lows not seen in over a decade, pulled down by a

Ten children and one woman were reportedly injured when a tugboat collided with a passenger vessel Friday at the port of Mar del Plata in Argentina. The

The United States would need to build at least 100 LNG carriers if the government were to require that all U.S. natural gas exports be transported to overseas

The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) departed the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine on Monday for its first at-sea tests and trials in the

Five crew members kidnapped from a Polish-owned cargo last month off the coast of Nigeria are heading home, according to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo.

The Marersk Siagon, a 332-meter containership flying under the Liberian flag, ran aground at the Port of Santos access channel in Brazil during her departure

By David Wethe (Bloomberg) — The relatively unheralded corner of the oil sector that sends supply boats out to offshore oil rigs may see bankruptcies as