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US-based crude oil shipping company Gener8 Maritime has taken delivery of the VLCC Gener8 Hector from Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction’s Subic

(LISW) – The UK Government’s purpose is for Britain’s maritime sector to be as great as it can be and to be “greater than we imagined possible over

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico will be the Trump

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – 2017 will be the year that China-Europe rail services shift supply chain patterns. As the first train from China rolled

By Julia M. Palmer (Holland & Knight) – Although the Trump Administration’s plans for significant infrastructure investment, including key

A total of six people are missing after two cargo ships sank in the Philippines in separate incidents less than 24 hours apart.  The first incident

By Matthew Monks, Dinesh Nair, Ed Hammond and Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Aker ASA, the investment company controlled by Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge

By Nicholas Brautlecht and Hannah Benjamin (Bloomberg) — Hapag-Lloyd AG boosted the volume of its first bond sale since 2014 by 100 million euros ($94

By Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) — One day after a Korean stock exchange official called the shares of Hanjin Shipping Co. “ trash,” investors piled in,

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Commerce Secretary, has pledged to sell his

The U.S. Department of Justice says 2016 was record year for prosecuting shipping companies and crew for illegal discharges from ocean-going vessels in U.S.

By Sarah Young and Kirstin Ridley LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Shares in Rolls-Royce jumped as much as 7 percent on Tuesday after the British maker of

A capesize bulk carrier blocked ship traffic in the Elbe River in Germany on Tuesday after losing power while inbound to the port of Hamburg. According to

By Osamu Tsukimori and Keith Wallis TOKYO/SINGAPORE, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Global shipping insurers have devised a way to ensure nearly full coverage for

By Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY, Jan 17 (Reuters) – The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Tuesday without

The U.S. Coast Guard and good samaritan vessels are responding to a U.S.-flagged vehicle carrier which caught fire and is now adrift approximately 130 miles

Check out this amazing video posted to facebook showing an inbound fishing vessel crossing the Chetco River (Brooking) bar near Brooking, Oregon. The

Brazilian mining giant Vale has shipped the first cargo of iron ore from the company’s giant new mine in the Amazon known as S11D. The company said

AMSTERDAM, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Dutch investigators have raided the Netherlands’ biggest ship builder, Damen Shipyards, as part of a criminal

The grounded bunkering tanker Arca 1 has been successfully refloated and is now secure in Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia. The Canadian Coast Guard reported that