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BRUSSELS, Sept 19 (Reuters) – The well-preserved wreck of a World War One German submarine, possibly still containing the bodies of its 23 crew members,

Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk Group) has signed a deal to sell its Maersk Tankers unit to a subsidiary of A.P. Moller Holding for

French shipping company CMA CGM has signed shipbuilding contracts for its nine 22,000 TEU Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCVs) with state-run China State

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The European Union and Canada will begin cutting import duties from Thursday on thousands of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has warned that Solas firefighting regulations for container vessels

By Alvin Baez SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria, the second maximum-strength storm to rage over the Caribbean this month,

WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain called on Tuesday for an immediate stop to U.S. sailors working over 100 hours a week as top

The United States Coast Guard has closed all ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands due to Hurricane Maria, which made landfall as a Category 5

By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — Energy companies that stunned the world by offering to build wind farms with no subsidy may ruin the

By Joshua Brustein (Bloomberg) — Frank Marino sat in a repurposed U.S. Coast Guard boat bobbing in Boston Harbor one morning late last month. He pointed

Update (10:30 a.m. ET, Sept 19): Hurricane Maria has been upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Latest Updates on

By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, Sept 18 (Reuters) – A consortium planning to build Britain’s Triton Knoll offshore wind park will buy 90

The Canadian government has issued a $6,000 speeding ticket to a Canadian Coast Guard ship for travelling over the posted speed limit in the western Gulf of

By Yu-Huay Sun and Richard Frost (Bloomberg) — A Taiwanese shipping company is enduring the sharpest swing in fortunes among Asian shares.

DUBAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) – DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, has agreed to buy two fellow state-owned maritime companies from

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy dismissed two senior officers on Monday after a series of collisions involving Seventh Fleet warships in

Phillips 66 has taken advantage of the U.S. Department of Homeland Securities’ temporary Jones Act waiver applying to tankers in response to fuel

By Julia Simon NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) – While crude deliveries by larger ships to Beaumont in Texas remain restricted after Hurricane Harvey, a

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) yesterday approved THE Alliance’s plan for a $50m contingency fund in case one of

By Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey flooded the U.S. Gulf Coast, brought shipping to a halt and knocked out power to