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Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Bliss on Monday became the biggest cruise ship to transit the Expanded Panama Canal. The 168,000 gross ton cruise ship

The Port of Antwerp is looking into the possibility of using carbon capture as one way of helping fight against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas

FRANKFURT, May 14 (Reuters) – German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd reported a higher net profit and operating result in the first quarter of 2018

BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) – China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier left its northeastern port to begin sea trials on Sunday, state

By Ali Kucukgocmen SAZLIBOSNA, Turkey, May 13 (Reuters) – When residents of Sazlibosna, a village near Istanbul, tried to attend a public meeting

LONDON/ADEN, May 11 (Reuters) – An explosion has damaged a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled port of Saleef, with varying

By Ryan Collins and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — Another darling of the Trump administration is poised to gain from the Iran deal breakup as oil

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) – The world’s top two container shipping groups Maersk Line and MSC are reviewing their Iran operations

By Thin Lei Win ROME, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In 2016, a Thai-flagged fishing vessel was detained in Seychelles on suspicion that it had

By Ryan Collins and Kevin Varley (Bloomberg) — Israel is about to receive a cargo of U.S. liquefied natural gas, the first to arrive in the Middle

By Timothy Gardner and Jessica Resnick-Ault WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) – An expansion of oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico would

Editor’s Note: Below is the full statement provided by a representative of the Panama Canal in response to gCaptain’s story Panama Canal Tugboat

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report on the investigation into last year’s grounding of the general cargo ship

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — China has landed a military plane on the last of its three airstrips in the disputed South China Sea, a

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The response of the remaining countries to the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will likely

A group of Japanese companies including shipping companies NYK and K-Line are teaming up to launch a new LNG bunkering business in Japan. With the new

By Angelina Rascouet, Alex Longley and Rupert Rowling (Bloomberg) — European oil refiners and trading houses began preparing to cut purchases

BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) – Three ships carrying livestock feed grain, sorghum, from the U.S. to China switched their destinations on Thursday to Japan

Update: Panama Canal Says Tugboats Captains Broke the Law The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is not providing proper staffing and equipment for new larger locks,

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Shipping lines serving Iran have a six-month window to leave or cease their operations in the country, following