Shipping News

Pilot error resulting from ‘relative motion illusion’ has been identified as the likely cause of the collision between the vehicle

PARIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Container shipping group CMA CGM has promoted Rodolphe Saade to be chief executive officer, succeeding his father and company

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the owner of the world’s biggest container shipping line, is paying particular attention to

By Rob Verdonck and Kelly Gilblom (Bloomberg) — Almost a year after the first liquefied natural gas cargo left the Gulf of Mexico, the U.K. is still

LAGOS, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Pirates have kidnapped seven Russians and one Ukrainian after attacking the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean off the coast of

Seafarers on board a ship held at Fawley Port in the UK were found to be without warm clothing for days and their wages unpaid for three months, according

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., South Korea’s biggest sea carrier, said it will post losses through the first half of

The U.S. Navy has decommissioned the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN 65), during a ceremony held in the ship’s

By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Ahead of the Maersk Group 2016 annual report due on Wednesday, analyst Jefferies has predicted a substantial

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Tanker firm DHT Holdings unanimously rejected late on Sunday the proposed deal by rival Frontline, controlled

International classification society DNV GL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to promote R&D and

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a Navy destroyer to patrol off the coast of Yemen to protect waterways from Houthi

By Sudarshan Varadhan Feb 3 (Reuters) – Port authorities in Chennai have impounded a BW LPG vessel and a local ship carrying heavy fuel oil, and detained

The Maersk Triple-E containership Maersk Elba became the largest ship to call in Israel on Thursday after docking at Haifa Port’s Carmel Terminal. The

By Firat Kayakiran, Rachel Graham and Laura Blewitt (Bloomberg) — America’s East Coast gasoline glut is back and it’s so big that tankers bound

By Enda Curran (Bloomberg) — If Donald Trump slapped China with punishing tariffs, the pain would also be felt by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan,

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo vessels on key Asian routes are likely to hold around the current

HAMBURG, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Water levels on the Rhine and Danube in Germany were rising rapidly on Wednesday after recent rain and as warmer weather

LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A unit of Swiss shipping group MSC has bought a stake in U.S. ports operator Total Terminals International (TTI) from Hanjin,

A total of 862 ships were dismantled worldwide in 2016, the vast majority of which ended up in South Asia on the beaches of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,