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LILLE, France, Jan 25 (Reuters) – French fishermen blockaded Calais throughout Thursday, halting shipping movements at France’s busiest passenger

BEIJING, Jan 25 (Reuters) – The maritime authorities of China, Panama, Iran and Hong Kong on Thursday signed an agreement to jointly investigate a

Maersk Drilling is reportedly laying off 84 Houston-based offshore workers due to lack of work, the Houston Business Journal reported based on a letter it

The U.S. Navy’s newest Littoral Combat Ship, USS Little Rock, will have to spend its winter up north instead of Florida’s warmer waters after the

By David Brunnstrom and David Alexander WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The United States announced new sanctions aimed at stopping North Korea’s

By Isis Almeida (Bloomberg) — Cryptocurrencies are making inroads into food commodity trading. The first freight deal settled in Bitcoin was executed

By Agnia Grigas Jan 24 (Reuters) – After months of President Donald Trump’s promises to bring about a new era of American “energy dominance,”

BEIRUT, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The black boxes for the tanker Sanchi and the freighter CF Crystal, the two vessels that collided in the worst oil ship

TOKYO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Japan has told the United Nations about a North Korean tanker spotted in the East China Sea that it suspects was engaged in a

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The world’s second largest container shipping line, MSC, has announced plans to enter the scheduled deepsea roll-on

Update: gCaptain is told the Ocean Spirit 1 has been reflected with the help of Sea Tow vessels.  Earlier: The U.S. Coast Guard is responding Tuesday to

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s General Administration of Customs just confirmed what liquefied natural gas industry insiders have been

By Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir and Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s hope of finding oil offshore its coast is fading after China and Norway decided

SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (Reuters) – A U.S.-based company has begun searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysia said on Tuesday, as it

By Julie Astrid Thomsen COPENHAGEN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Danish inventor Peter Madsen tied up and abused Swedish journalist Kim Wall before murdering

London-based satellite communications provider Inmarsat is rolling out a new set of plans for its rapidly-expanding Fleet Xpress maritime high-speed broadband

The New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) has announced that Maersk Line, the world’s largest container ocean carrier, has joined as a founding member and

By Bailey Schulz (Bloomberg) — The global oil industry’s backlog of big drilling projects is starting to shrink as prices improve. From production

A Dutch pilot boat was severely damaged after colliding with a bulk carrier off the coast of Netherlands on Sunday morning. According to Dutch media reports,

By Barbara Powell and Tiffany Kary (Bloomberg) — Philadelphia Energy Solutions LLC, owner of an oil refinery that supplies more than a quarter