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Strong winds caused a large cargo ship to drag anchor and run aground near Livorno, Italy last week, but AIS data shows that as of Monday the ship had

The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency has appointed Doug Barrow as the new Director of the UK Ship Register (UKSR). Doug Barrow is currently chief executive

SYDNEY, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Australia said on Monday it was “deeply disappointed” Japan had continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after

The UK Coastguard coordinated an extensive search and rescue effort overnight after a 90-meter cargo ship sank in the North Sea approximately 35 nautical miles

European shipowners are calling for the European Commission to open its list of approved ship recycling facilities to non-EU countries as soon as possible in

The Pentagon has carried out what it is calling one of its most significant tests of autonomous systems under development by the Department of Defense

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM and China Cosco are the two most likely carriers to buy OOCL, should its main shareholders decide to sell the

Two Greek shipping companies have been sentenced to pay corporate penalties totaling $2.7 million in yet another “magic pipe” pollution case in the

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) are expected to remain stable next week as buoyant

By Sveinung Sleire (Bloomberg) — Reducing Norway’s oil dependency and living up to campaign promises is proving a costly affair for Prime Minister Erna

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Asian pirates are focusing more of their attacks on larger merchant ships near the Philippines, hoping for

U.S.-flag freighters operating on the Great Lakes moved 83.3 million tons of cargo in 2016, a decrease of 4.5 percent compared to 2015, the Lake

By Keith Wallis and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A huge traffic jam of hundreds of ships carrying coal and iron ore into China has

By Chester D. Hooper and Christopher R. Nolan (Holland & Knight) – Much has been theorized in the past two months concerning whether the Trump

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Singapore’s terminal operator PSA today reported that it handled 67.63m teu across both its international network

Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles reached 8,856,782 TEU in 2016, marking the busiest year ever for the port or any port in the Western Hemisphere Port

A total of 15 containers were lost from a general cargo ship in the North Sea off the Netherlands on Wednesday. The Dutch Coastguard reported the

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) – COSCO Shipping Corporation said policy lender China Development Bank has pledged to provide it with 180 billion yuan ($26

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China said it had the right to act in its own territory in the disputed South China Sea, pushing back after

By Natalie Obiko Pearson and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The tightening of emissions limits for deep-water ships has some of North America’s