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By Maria Vasilyeva, Lisa Barrington and Jonathan Saul MOSCOW/DUBAI/LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive

By Luc Cohen and Roslan Khasawneh NEW YORK/SINGAPORE, Aug 11 (Reuters) – A shipping joint venture between Venezuela and China has fallen apart in the

By Katharine Houreld and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A Japanese ship that ran aground on a reef off Mauritius two weeks ago has now stopped

New images are coming in from the Indian Ocean island nation of Mautitius showing the extent of the oil spill from the grounded bulk carrier Wakashio. The MV

LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Insurance claims for damage to ships, goods and the port itself after a warehouse explosion last week in the port of Beirut

Aug 10 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Group reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Monday, as the cruise operator suffered from a

TOKYO, Aug 9 (Reuters) – The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil

By Santiago Arcos ABOARD ECUADOREAN NAVY AIRCRAFT, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy is conducting surveillance of a massive Chinese fishing fleet

By Aaron Clark and Annie Lee (Bloomberg) — A new risk to global supply chains is emerging as exhausted seafarers stuck offshore for months halt work, a

By Ann Koh and Low De Wei (Bloomberg) –Stena Bulk AB, one of the world’s biggest tanker lines, plans to run some of its ships on used cooking oil

A new paper exploring maritime accidents and how they can have prevented if regulations are followed has been entered into the Congressional Record. The

The International Propeller Club of the United States has requested that Congress appropriate $3.5 billion for the relief and support of the U.S. maritime

By Laura Millan Lombrana (Bloomberg) –Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the lowest level since at least 1979 for July as temperatures spiked in the

By Kamlesh Bhuckory (Bloomberg) — Bad weather hindered efforts to contain an oil spill from a bulk carrier off the southeastern coast of Mauritius that

By Maayan Lubell, Rami Ayyub and Katharine Houreld Aug 7 (Reuters) – The devastating explosion in Beirut should be a wake-up call for countries on the

By Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) — Seafarers aboard three vessels who’ve been stuck at sea beyond their original contracts are stalling vessels in Australia,

The get a better idea of the ships that were in port on the day of the massive explosions in Beirut, Lebanon, we turn to AIS data provided Spire

By Scott Edwards, University of Bristol, and Christian Bueger, University of Copenhagen – At the time of writing at least 100 people have lost their

HOUSTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday increased its prediction for the number of

By Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the