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By Gwladys Fouche and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, July 10 (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike

PANAMA CITY, July 9 (Reuters) – Panama and China opened free trade talks on Monday with the aim of crafting an agreement that could turn the Central

By Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg) — A flurry of activity in a remote Canadian town is raising optimism that Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its

Norwegian ship designer Havyard Design & Solutions has been awarded a contract to the two new cargo vessels for Greenland’s exclusive shipping

The raised offer comes after Dorian LPG’s Board declined BW LPG’s initial unsolicited offer on May 29, saying the offer undervalued Dorian’s

BEIJING, July 9 (Reuters) – Major Chinese ports have started clearing goods from the United States on Monday, as new tariffs on U.S. imports have gone

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Jess Macy Yu WASHINGTON/TAIPEI, July 7 (Reuters) – Two U.S. warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday on

By Leigh Thomas and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France/LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest cargo shippers announced on

Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein has secured a contract from French cable company Nexans to construct a large, DP3 cable laying vessel to support the growing

Norwegian technology group Kongsberg has entered into an agreement to acquire Rolls-Royce’s struggling commercial marine business in a GBP 500 million

By Danya Hajjaji TORONTO, July 4 (Reuters) – Crew members of two Canadian fishing vessels were approached by the United States border patrol in Canadian

By Michael Martina and David Lawder BEIJING/WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – The United States and China slapped tit-for-tat duties on $34 billion

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — John Fredriksen’s stake in Seadrill Ltd., once worth more than $5 billion, was virtually wiped out in the

Kawasaki Heavy Industries will build Japan’s first LNG bunkering vessel for a joint venture between K-Line, Chubu Electric Power, Toyota Tsusho

By Lusha Zhang and Josephine Mason BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) – It is not often that the niche world of commodities trading enters the public

By Thomas Seal (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar Corp. made its 3.2 billion pound ($4.2 billion) proposal to buy Inmarsat

By Elias Glenn and David Lawder BEIJING/WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) – China accused the United States on Thursday of “opening fire” on the

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy stands ready to ensure free navigation and the flow of commerce, the U.S.

By Rachel Adams-Heard, Dan Murtaugh and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — The world’s fastest growing fossil fuel is bracing for a direct hit from

By Nichola Groom July 5 (Reuters) – The Trump administration wants to fire up development of the U.S. offshore wind industry by streamlining