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By Kate Holton and Guy Faulconbridge – LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – The United Kingdom leaves the European Union on Friday with a mixture of joy,

A Maersk containership broke down and began drifting shortly after departing Algeciras, Spain to Newark, New Jersey.  Maersk said in a Jan. 30 customer

(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than freight.

TOKYO/SINGAPORE, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Shipping companies may face delivery delays of vessels fitted with exhaust gas filtering equipment that

By Humeyra Pamuk and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday lifted sanctions on one of two units of the giant Chinese

Image courtesy Kirby Corp. Houston-based tank barge operator Kirby Corporation has signed a agreement to acquire the inland tank barge fleet of Savage Inland

ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Tests on a passenger from Macau aboard a cruise liner blocked in an Italian port confirmed on Thursday she did not have

By Richard Lough BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France, Jan 30 (Reuters) – For the British government, a successful Brexit means re-asserting economic sovereignty and

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas and French public investment bank Bpifrance are the latest lenders to join an

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Norway’s national economic crime unit raided the local office of international shipping company Teekay

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a man suffering from severe burns on board a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea on Monday. The rescue took place approximately 46

Update: The sick crew members on board the CMA CGM Ural have recovered and coronavirus has been ruled out, according to a spokesperson with CMA CGM. 

By Anjishnu Mondal Jan 30 (Reuters) – The capesize component of the Baltic sea freight index plunged to an all-time low on Thursday, hurt by high fuel

ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Some 6,000 people are being kept on board an Italian cruise ship as tests are carried out on a passenger from Macau to see

A fire broke out on board a VLCC tanker near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, although reports indicate that the fire started during maintenance work and no

German Naval Yards Kiel is formally challenging the German government’s decision to award Netherlands-based Damen with the contract to construct the German

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 29 (Reuters) – PetroChina’s Singapore bunkering unit moved up a notch to be the top marine fuel supplier in the

The Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) is entering into a partnership with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to

By Jack Wittels and Akshat Rathi – (Bloomberg) –One of the shipping industry’s great hopes for improving its environmental performance —

By Reed Landberg and Ewa Krukowska – (Bloomberg) –Developers for some of the world’s biggest wind farms are poised to get a boost from the