Shipping News

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – 2M partners Maersk and MSC have extended the suspension of their TA4/NEUATL4 transatlantic loop through to September.

By Julia Payne and Devika Krishna Kumar LONDON/NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) – After U.S. crude futures took an historic plunge into negative territory in

FRANKFURT/BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) – German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it had notified customers it will stop accepting cargoes of solid

Mariners onboard the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Idaho have tested positive for COVID-19 in what is thought to be the first reported outbreak of the virus on an

Authorities in the Netherlands are reiterating previous warnings to large containerships of the dangers of sailing near the Wadden Islands in the southern

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN, June 25 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipper, A.P. Moller-Maersk, will team up with industry majors

The U.N. International Maritime Organization is highlighting the plight of seafarers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic on this year’s annual Day

June 25 (Reuters) – The Belgian port of Antwerp has quarantined a Maltese-flagged oil tanker until at least July 4 after more than half of its crew

By Marianna Parraga and Roslan Khasawneh MEXICO CITY/SINGAPORE, June 24 (Reuters) – Tankers carrying nearly two months’ worth of Venezuelan oil

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a crew member of a tanker approximately 400 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Watchstanders at the Coast

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to oversee the response to shipping containers lost overboard from a Hawaiian inter-island barge in Hilo Harbor on Monday. A

By Isis Almeida, Michael Hirtzer, Tatiana Freitas and Mike Dorning (Bloomberg) –The U.S.-China trade deal has just suffered a new setback. China wants

A bulk carrier transiting the Panama Canal took out the railroad bridge in Gamboa on Tuesday, causing major damage. The Panama Canal Authority said it is

By Humeyra Pamuk and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who

June 23 (Reuters) – Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday downgraded bonds of Carnival Corp to junk status, forecasting continued weak

A new world record for the most container movements during a single ship call was set last week at the Port of Los Angeles. The Port of LA reports

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carrier optimism is being driven by higher freight rates and cheaper fuel – but tumbling charter hire costs are

A bunker tanker crashed straight into a breakwater at the Port of Marseille in France and it was all caught on video. The incident is believed to have occurred

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday walked back on his earlier remarks that the U.S.-China trade pact was

A Hawaiian interisland barge lost more than 20 containers overboard off the coast of Hilo on Monday morning and several containers remain missing. The U.S.