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By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Ahead of the Maersk Group 2016 annual report due on Wednesday, analyst Jefferies has predicted a substantial

Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd have announced slot purchase agreement for Hamburg Süd’s volumes on the East-West trades to be shipped on vessels in the 2M

The Panama Canal set a new monthly tonnage record in January 2017 with 36.1 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS) and 1,260 ships transiting through both the

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Tanker firm DHT Holdings unanimously rejected late on Sunday the proposed deal by rival Frontline, controlled

Today’s ship photos show the Military Sealift Command-chartered tanker MT Maersk Peary arriving at the McMurdo Station ice-pier in support of the

By Catherine Ngai and Florence Tan NEW YORK/SINGAPORE Feb 3 (Reuters) – Oil majors and trading houses are set to ship an unprecedented volume

A UK judge has handed down steep fines to the experienced Masters of two vessels that collided in thick fog on Humber estuary in Northern England in May 2016

Officials in Pakistan have halted the scrapping of oil and LPG tankers at the Gadani Shipbreaking Yard, one of the largest demolition yards in South Asia,

International classification society DNV GL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to promote R&D and

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries says it has manufactured its 5,000th ship propeller at its Ulsan factory. The milestone propeller measures

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a Navy destroyer to patrol off the coast of Yemen to protect waterways from Houthi

Dutch shipbuilding group Damen has officially taken over the management of the former Curaçao Droogdok Maatschappij, a shiprepair yard strategically located

By Libby George ANTWERP, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The biggest change in shipping fuel for decades is three years away, but shipping and refining companies need

By Sudarshan Varadhan Feb 3 (Reuters) – Port authorities in Chennai have impounded a BW LPG vessel and a local ship carrying heavy fuel oil, and detained

A Cambodian-flagged cargo has been found abandoned and listing at an anchorage near Istanbul, and officials are wondering what exactly happened to its crew.

The Maersk Triple-E containership Maersk Elba became the largest ship to call in Israel on Thursday after docking at Haifa Port’s Carmel Terminal. The

January 2017 already accounts for 22% of the crude oil tankers previous year’s total deliveries, due to tremendous VLCC delivery growth. (BIMCO) –

By Firat Kayakiran, Rachel Graham and Laura Blewitt (Bloomberg) — America’s East Coast gasoline glut is back and it’s so big that tankers bound

By Enda Curran (Bloomberg) — If Donald Trump slapped China with punishing tariffs, the pain would also be felt by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan,

By Sam Whelan, Australia-based China Sea Rates has launched the world’s first plug-and-play, door-to-door ocean freight booking system for e-commerce