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The Panama Canal set yet another daily tonnage record in February 2017 with a total of 1,180 vessel transits totaling 1.18 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS).

By Ryan Collins and Robert Tuttle (Bloomberg) — By 2035, the U.S. may have surpassed Australia and Qatar to become the world’s biggest supplier of

By Scot Paltrow WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – Last week, President Donald J. Trump chose the deck of the newest U.S. aircraft carrier, the $13 billion

By Jessica Shankleman and Brian Parkin (Bloomberg) — Water and electric power plants don’t mix well naturally, unless you add some wind. Water tends to

The U.S. Coast Guard is coordinating salvage for the crew boat Miss Lynda which ran aground on a jetty near Cameron, Louisiana on Wednesday. The

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMRPJ7akbHk Hey I feel for Bill here. I recently purchased my first house and I’ll be damned if some cruise ship

Rolls-Royce has announced plans to open a global research and development center for the advancement of remote controlled and autonomous shipping technology in

By Paul Sandle LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) – British satellite company Inmarsat said strong demand from governments and aviation customers in the final

By Reem Shamseddine MANAMA, March 8 (Reuters) – U.S. oilfield services and equipment provider McDermott International said on Wednesday it would build a

March 7 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, closed at a 12-week

By Christopher Langner (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Read the shipping and offshore oil industry news in Singapore and you’d be forgiven for imagining the

By James Pearson and Ju-min Park SEOUL, March 7 (Reuters) – The United States started to deploy the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defense

By Erik Matzen COPENHAGEN, March 7 (Reuters) – Oil and shipping conglomerate A.P Moller-Maersk could land a deal with the Danish government on oil and

Today, March 6, 2017, marks 30 years since the capsizing of car and passenger ferry Herald of Free Enterprise with loss of 193 people off the Belgian coast,

JOHANNESBURG, March 6 (Reuters) – South Africa’s competition watchdog ruled on Monday that Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd’s (K-Line), one of

Technology giant IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Maersk, owner of the leading transport and logistics company Maersk Line, have announced a potentially

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, March 3 (Reuters) – A backlog of grain ships waiting to load at U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) ports is threatening to persist into

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, March 3 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which fell to four-month lows this week, face an

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – After a short block on bookings this week, Maersk Line is again accepting cargo from North Europe to Asia. However the

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, March 3 (Reuters) – Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo vessels on key Asian routes could remain rangebound next week