Shipping News

By Sabina Zawadzki LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions on two units of Chinese shipper COSCO hit the liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker

Latest on the Bourbon Rhode Update (Sunday): Search crews located an overturned fast rescue craft believed to be from the Bourbon Rhode late Saturday, Bourbon

Update: Stolt Tankers reports that the fire in the cargo section of Stolt Groenland has been extinguished. The Bow Dalian, which was moored alongside at the

DUBAI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The British-flagged Stena Impero tanker arrived at Dubai’s Port Rashid on Friday after sailing out of Iranian waters,

Latest on the Bourbon Rhode Update: Bourbon Rhode Sinks in Atlantic; Three Rescued A rescue operation is underway for a Bourbon tug with fourteen crew members

By Steve Miller, Third Officer, M/V Maersk Montana – “Let me know when he’s aboard!” came the voice through the handheld radio. It was the

By Serene Cheong, Debjit Chakraborty and Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) –More than two months and 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) ago, the tanker Da Yuan Hu

A ONE Line containership was involved in a collision with a moored chemical tanker at the Port of Perama near Piraeus, Greece on Friday, reportedly causing

DUBAI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The British-flagged Stena Impero tanker sailed out of Iranian waters on Friday, the owner said, after it was detained in July

By Florence Tan and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Key oil freight rates from the Middle East to Asia rocketed as much as 28% on Friday

A Maine Maritime Academy alumnus could be facing criminal charges for accidentally shooting a referee with a cannon during a MMA football game. The incident

Today’s World Maritime Day celebration is bringing attention to the importance of gender equality in the maritime industry and especially the

By Jonathan Saul and Chen Aizhu LONDON/SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (Reuters) – China’s Unipec has made replacement bookings for four oil shipments from the

BIRKENHEAD, England, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Prince William and his wife Kate formally named a new British polar research ship “Sir David

By Alaric Nightingale and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Oil-tanker costs are surging after the U.S. slapped sanctions on Chinese companies it accused of

The sanctions targeted COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian) Co. and COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian), along with Seaman & Ship Management Co. and a handful of

Dutch based ship designer eConowind has been tapped to supply one of their innovative “ventifoil“ wind-assisted propulsion systems onboard a 3,600 DWT

The world’s first ultra-large containership to be powered by liquefied natural gas was launched in China this week. CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE is the first of

By Jack Wittels and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) –For almost three years, the oil industry has been puzzling over how to supply merchant ships with fuel that

By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) – British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero is still being held in Iran, despite Tehran lifting a detention