Shipping News

By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — Forecasters are expecting this year’s North Atlantic hurricane season to be roughly average, with about 14 named storms

MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) – Three people were missing and two injured on Tuesday after a blast on an oil tanker caused a fire while it was pumping oil

By Philip J. Heijmans and Glen Carey (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Coast Guard is touting increased operations in the Western Pacific, thousands of miles from

By Brian K. Sullivan, Shruti Date Singh and Mario Parker (Bloomberg) — Hundreds of barges are stalled on the Mississippi River, clogging the

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, June 10 (Reuters) – Global prices for diesel and marine fuels should rise by October ahead of a January switchover to new, very

By Ira Breskin in Oslo, Norway – Executives from maritime industry service providers interviewed at the Nor-Shipping conference in Oslo last week

Seven people were injured Saturday after a 19th-century wooden schooner collided with a containership on the Elbe River in Germany. German fire officials

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – It seems the ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) that have become the ‘new normal’ on the Asia-Europe tradelane

By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST, June 10 (Reuters) – Hungarian salvage crews prepared on Monday to raise the wreck of a pleasure boat that capsized on the

The U.S. Coast Guard has published a final rule amending the requirements for renewal of a radar observer endorsement, making refresher courses no longer

The rapid growth in installed LNG tank capacity points to a potential boom in LNG for larger vessels over the coming years and could mark the start of a

An offshore supply vessel collided with Equinor’s Statfjord A platform in the North Sea on Friday, forcing the evacuation of the platform but no injuries

By David Wainer (Bloomberg) — An investigation into a spate of attacks on oil tankers in the Middle East last month has concluded that a “state

By Katya Golubkova and Gleb Stolyarov ST PETERSBURG, June 7 (Reuters) – DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, wants to run ports

By Andrew Osborn and Tim Kelly MOSCOW/TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters) – Russia and the United States blamed each other for a near collision between their

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Offshore oil and gas bankers in Oslo are warning that the industry is far from out of the woods as a recovery is

By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, June 6 (Reuters) – The captain of the Viking Sigyn cruise liner that collided with a pleasure boat on the River Danube in

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing hasn’t choked off the flow of American oil to China. At least six

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shipping must pay the price today for tomorrow’s sustainability as a push to cleaner supply chains is seeing

By Axel Bugge LISBON, June 6 (Reuters) – The amount of cocaine seized by authorities in Europe doubled in 2017 to reach a record 140 tonnes in a strong