Shipping News

MV Baltika, a 7.5 MW icebreaker built to Russian Register of Shipping Class by OAO Shipyard Yantar and Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, has just completed sea

April 3 (Bloomberg) — China outlined a package of measures including railway spending and tax relief to support the economy and create jobs after a

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE April 3 (Reuters) – Rates for capesize bulk carriers on key Asian routes are facing mixed fortunes with a two-tier market

The German Navy has released new video showing the 5 April 2010 hijacking of the German containership MV Taipan by pirates some 500 miles off the Somali coast.

By Anthony Esposito and Rosalba O’Brien SANTIAGO, April 2 (Reuters) – Chilean authorities on Wednesday were assessing the damage from a massive

Here is the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center’s near real-time animation for the tsunami from northern Chile following the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that was

Euroseas, the Athens-based owner/operator of dry bulk and container vessels placed a newbuild order today for two 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax bulk carriers

The Mexican Navy and Damen Shipyards Group (the Netherlands) signed another contract for a license, material package and technical assistance of a Damen Stan

Following the signing of an MOU last month, the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is formally looking to expand discussions with China Shipping (Group) on the

By Horace Helps KINGSTON, April 1 (Reuters) – The Jamaican government has signed a preliminary agreement with one of China’s leading construction

A ship-to-ship audio recording released by the U.S. Coast Guard to the Houston Chronicle has provided some new insight into the moments leading up to the March

By Maher Chmaytelli April 1 (Bloomberg) — The Libyan government may be willing to accept an interim deal that would allow oil ports to reopen without

Here’s a great time-lapse video shot from onboard the Elly Maersk, sister ship to the Emma Maersk eight E-class container ships operated by Maersk Line.

By Nicholas Brautlecht April 1 (Bloomberg) — Hamburg Sued Group, Germany’s second biggest container shipping line, may revive merger plans with

At approximately  0100 UTC this morning, the car carrier Baltic Breeze collided with the fishing vessel, “Mar de Marin” approximately 1.5

April 1 (Bloomberg) — The commodities boom is over and you can have some money back. For investors in Japan’s biggest trading houses, Mitsubishi Corp.

Judges at the highest U.N. court ordered Japan on Monday to halt whaling in the Antarctic, rejecting its long-held argument that the catch was for scientific

Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Group announced its entry into the long-haul ocean towing segment with a design and equipment package contract for four 300 ton

While at the Connecticut Maritime Association Conference this year, I was invited to speak to the audience about the topic of social media and its influence

A search has been suspended for a unidentified fishing vessel whose EPIRB was set off over the weekend in the Southern Indian Ocean a few hundred miles from