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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Saturday it had seized a North Korean freighter that was covered by harsher United Nations’ sanctions

The number of vessels arriving at the Port of Rotterdam has increased for the first time since 2007. According to the Port of Rotterdam Authority, 29,122

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM has confirmed that from the end of May it will redeploy its flagship fleet of 18,000 teu ships on the “most

Incat Crowther said it received a contract to design a 20m catamaran passenger ferry, taking tourists in search of monster Nessie in the waters of Loch Ness in

French container shipping company CMA CGM has confirmed that starting in the end of May it will deploy six 18,000 TEU ‘megaships’ between Asia and

An Indonesian ferry reportedly carrying dozens people capsized and sank in the Bali Strait on Friday, sparking a major search and rescue operation. Dramatic

SEATTLE, March 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday defended the Pentagon’s decision to buy just 40 Littoral Combat Ships

By Ruby Lian and Megha Rajagopalan SHANGHAI/BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) – Chinese maritime authorities must “blacklist” 31 boats operated by a

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, March 3 (Reuters) – Freight rates for capesize bulk carriers on key Asian routes are likely to remain flat as the number of

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., South Korea’s second-biggest shipping company, plans to write down its capital by 86

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — For an industry that is losing money on almost every transaction, the world’s commodity shippers are remarkably busy

By Kristina Fiore With her shrimp-colored outriggers and a home port of Seaford, Va., it wasn’t hard to wonder what a boat like Carolina Queen III was doing

By Mikael Holter and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Shippers ferrying coal, iron ore and grains across the globe have never had it this bad and should expect

CARACAS, March 1 (Reuters) – A World Bank tribunal partially lifted a stay of enforcement on a compensation claim payable by Venezuela to oil service

March 2 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose further on

By David Tweed and Ditas Lopez (Bloomberg) — China has stationed ships near a submerged reef in the South China Sea, blocking access by Philippine boats

by Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — John Fredriksen is calling an end to the salmon rally. The Norwegian-born oil and shipping tycoon on Tuesday sold a $510

COPENHAGEN, March 2 (Reuters) – Danish shipping company D/S Norden said the dry cargo market reached its lowest point last year and will not recover this

Here’s a 4 minute time-lapse of aboard the Military Sealift Command-chartered MV Ocean Giant during Operation Deep Freeze 2016, an annual resupply

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is returning to earth later today after spending an epic year in space aboard the International Space Station. Now you may not