Shipping News

By Nichola Groom March 28 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers will quiz President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the Interior Department on Thursday, focusing

Have a regime when the current’s abeam. Ensure adequate maneuvering space! The U.S. Coast Guard in New Orleans has issued a Marine Safety Alert (Safety

Australian authorities have detained the Liberian-registered bulk carrier Anna-Elisabeth has been detained after its crew complained of insufficient food,

ROME, March 27 (Reuters) – Migrants have hijacked a merchant ship which rescued them off the coast of Libya and it is now heading towards Malta, Italian

OSLO, March 27 (Reuters) – The engines of a luxury cruise ship that narrowly escaped disaster during a storm off Norway on Saturday failed because of

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange has opted to keep its benchmark shipping indices unchanged, despite calls from some market players for

By John Kemp LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – If oil traders and consumers are worried about the impact of new maritime fuel regulations from the start of

By Ben Foldy (Bloomberg) — On a normal day, 42 tankers, 19 freighters, 391 barges, 128 ferries and 2 cruise ships will move through the Houston

Containers in the fire-impacted areas of the containership Yantian Express have been discharged and are ready for transshipment to customers from Freeport,

A Shipping Corporation of India LNG carrier collided with a very large crude carrier at a Fujairah anchorage in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday evening,

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) –Oil trader Paul Vega is at the vanguard of shale’s next revolution. Driving his pick-up truck through the heartland of the

CMA CGM has signed a agreement for the order of ten new ultra-large containerships with China State Shipbuilding Corporation with delivery from 2021. The new

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, March 26 (Reuters) – R efiners around the world have invested about $1 billion so far to produce low-sulphur marine fuel

LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) – British ship insurer UK P&I Club has received approval from the Dutch regulator for a new subsidiary in Rotterdam to

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday prevented American sailors injured in the deadly 2000 al Qaeda bombing

By Joe Carroll, Ben Foldy and Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on

By Michael Carr – Following their compasses was not working. They had been hiking through mangroves for over an hour and had made little progress

Maritime authorities in Norway, Britain and the United States have started investigating the loss of power on board the Viking Sky cruise ship which nearly led

The 5,095-TEU container ship CMA CGM White Shark refueled with marine bio-fuel bunker oil at the Port of Rotterdam over the weekend, kicking off a trial that

By Devon Pendleton (Bloomberg) — Sailing from port to port in peace and seclusion on a multimillion-dollar boat sounds appealing, but as any