Shipping News

Explore the latest developments in the shipping industry, including market trends, fleet management, and the impact of global trade on maritime logistics.


Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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Russia’s Sovcomflot IPO Hobbled by Weak Freight Markets

By Oksana Kobzeva MOSCOW, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot said on Tuesday that uncertain conditions in the freight

January 15, 2019
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Monday, January 14, 2019
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Norway Supreme Court to Hear Snow Crab Case with Implication for Oil

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Norway’s Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear arguments on whether EU ships can fish for snow crab off

January 14, 2019
Total Views: 82

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U.S. Government Shutdown Drags Into Fourth Week Amid Stalemate

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday rejected a Republican call for temporarily reopening shuttered U.S.

January 14, 2019
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U.S. Army to Divest a Majority of its Watercraft and Maritime Capability

By Michael Carr – U.S. Army Maritime capabilities will be radically reduced this year as the service deactivates and divests itself of numerous vessels,

January 14, 2019
Total Views: 1241

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Fire-Stricken Maersk Honam to Be Rebuilt in South Korea

Maersk Line has confirmed plans to rebuild the Maersk Honam in South Korea. In an emailed statement on Monday, Maersk revealed that a portion of the vessel

January 14, 2019
Total Views: 404

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Cable Layer Star Centurion T-Boned by Tanker Off Singapore

By Fergus Jensen JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) – An undersea cable and pipe-laying ship, the Vanuatu-flagged MV Star Centurion, capsized in the

January 14, 2019
Total Views: 868

Saturday, January 12, 2019
Atlantic Tonjer
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MSC Begins Container Cleanup in North Sea

AMSTERDAM, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Swiss shipping line MSC has started cleaning up Dutch sea waters, ten days after it lost nearly 300 containers from one of

January 12, 2019
Total Views: 69

Friday, January 11, 2019
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Shifting North Magnetic Pole Forces Unprecedented Navigation Fix

By Alister Doyle OSLO, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented

January 11, 2019
Total Views: 166

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Crowley’s LNG-Fueled MV Taíno Completes Maiden Voyage to Puerto Rico

The second of Crowley Maritime Corp.’s new LNG-powered combination container/roll-on roll-off vessels has just completed its maiden voyage to Puerto Rico.

January 11, 2019
Total Views: 121

carbon capture and storage
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Norway Awards Equinor License to Build CO2 Storage Under North Sea

OSLO, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Equinor has won a license to develop carbon dioxide (CO2) storage under the North Sea, Norway’s oil ministry said on

January 11, 2019
Total Views: 135

offshore oil and gas rig
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Winners and Losers in Big Oil’s Offshore Spending Revival

By Francois de Beaupuy (Bloomberg) — After four years of cutbacks, oil companies are poised to open their purses again and develop new offshore

January 11, 2019
Total Views: 35

Thursday, January 10, 2019
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Three Fishermen Killed Crossing Yaquina Bay Bar in Oregon

The commercial fishing vessel Mary B II capsized while crossing the bar at the entrance of Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon on Tuesday night, killing three

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 568

nuclear icebreaker convoy
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Oceans Warming Faster Than Predicted, Scientists Say

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Jan 10 (Reuters) – The oceans are warming faster than previously estimated, setting a new temperature

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 61

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MSC to Close Capacity Gap on Maersk in 2019

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – MSC is set to receive some 330,000 teu of newbuild tonnage this year and will close the gap on its 2M partner, Maersk

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 95

sincerity ace fire
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Captain Describes Sincerity Ace Rescue in Pacific Ocean

(MM&P Wheelhouse Weekly) – The officers and crew of the MV GREEN LAKE saved seven members of the crew of the SINCERITY ACE, a car carrier which

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 489

Sahand Destroyer. Photo: Iranian Army
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Iran’s Tiny Navy Is Trying to Revive an Empire -Opinion

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg Opinion) — On the campaign trail in 2007, Senator John McCain sang a parody to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “Barbara

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 251

Yantian express
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Fire on Yantian Express Under Control; Ship Now Under Tow to Halifax

Hapag-Lloyd says the container fire on board the Yantian Express is now ‘largely’ under control and the ship is currently under tow back to Canada.

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 112

Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
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U.S. Oil Export Boom Sparks a Battle to Build Texas Port

By Collin Eaton CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Booming U.S. oil exports have set off a scramble to build Gulf Coast ports to handle more

January 10, 2019
Total Views: 40

Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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Trade War Cools U.S. LNG Exports to China in 2018

Jan 9 (Reuters) – The number of U.S. liquefied natural gas vessels that went to China in 2018 fell by around 20 percent from the prior year as the

January 9, 2019
Total Views: 37

BIMCO Calls on EU, China and U.S. to Support Counter-Piracy Ops in Gulf of Guinea
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BIMCO Calls on EU, China and U.S. to Support Counter-Piracy Ops in Gulf of Guinea

The EU, China, and the U.S. need to step up their support of counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Guinea amid a scourge of attacks and kidnappings in the

January 9, 2019
Total Views: 64