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by Babak Dehghanpisheh (Reuters) Tehran has suggested it could take military action in the Gulf to block other countries’ oil exports in retaliation for

The above photo shows the El Coquí, one of two new LNG-powered container/roll-on roll-off vessels for Crowley Maritime Corp. The vessel was delivered in late

By Florence Tan and Meng Meng SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Aug 24 (Reuters) – China’s Unipec will resume purchases of U.S. crude oil in October after a

You would have to be hiding under a rock to miss this video this week. But if somehow didn’t catch it, here it is. The video was filmed during

By Marta Ardashelia TBILISI, Aug 24 (Reuters) – A tanker with 19 crew members on board has docked at a port in Togo after going missing for over a

For Maersk, the trip the Northern Sea Route is a one-off trial for now. But, as climate change makes the Arctic route more accessible, there’s growing

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — Iran’s own fleet of tankers may provide a lifeline for its crude and condensate exports that’ll be slashed

By Marcelo Teixeira and Marcy Nicholson SAO PAULO/NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Brazilian coffee exporters are struggling to find shipping capacity to

By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Hurricane Lane churned toward Hawaii on Thursday, dumping torrential rain on the Big Island and threatening

RIYADH, Aug 23 (Reuters) – A Saudi-led military coalition foiled attacks by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has been a major champion of the U.S. maritime industry, writing several op-eds, hosting roundtables, and leading Congressional

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – The port of Hamburg is continuing to lose ground to its North European container competitors, with another

Finnish technology firm Wärtsilä and De Beers Marine, the offshore mining unit of the world’s largest diamond miner, have signed an agreement to

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Right before Norway’s biggest oil project in decades got the go-ahead in 2015, crude prices fell off a cliff.

By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Hawaii residents already reeling from months of explosive eruptions from Kilauea volcano braced on

German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has floated out the world’s first LNG-powered cruise ship from its covered construction dock in Papenburg. The float-out

Danish shipping giant Maersk is getting ready to send one of its newbuild ice-class feeder ships through the Northern Sea Route – a first for the

Finnish shipping company ESL Shipping has taken delivery of what is being touted as the world’s most eco-friendly bulk carrier. The 160-meter, 25,600

With a load of 19,038 TEU, the Maersk Line ultra-large containership Mumbai Maersk has set a new world record for the largest load ever carried by

BUDAPEST, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Water levels on the Danube dropped to record lows on three sections of the river in Hungary on Wednesday due to a recent