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Monday, November 9, 2015
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Maersk Line CEO Expects Shipping Consolidation to Speed Up

  By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Nov 9 (Reuters) – The world’s number one container shipping company Maersk Line expects consolidation in the

November 9, 2015
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Navy Provides More Details on Missile Test Flight That Had Everyone Freaking Out This Weekend
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Navy Provides More Details on Missile Test Flight That Had Everyone Freaking Out This Weekend

  The U.S. Navy provided some more information into Saturday night’s missile test launch that had many on the west coast and across the nation

November 9, 2015
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Neptune Orient Lines Jumps to Highest Since May on Takeover Talks
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Neptune Orient Lines Jumps to Highest Since May on Takeover Talks

  By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. jumped to the highest level in more than five months in Singapore trading after the

November 9, 2015
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Maersk: Global Economy Worse Than Forecasts Show
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Maersk: Global Economy Worse Than Forecasts Show

  By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The world’s economy is growing at a slower pace than the International Monetary Fund and other large

November 9, 2015
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Tanker Futures Market Booms as Rates Rally
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Tanker Futures Market Booms as Rates Rally

  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – The market for hedging oil tanker freight has revived sharply this year to a value of $4.5 billion

November 9, 2015
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Saturday, November 7, 2015
CMA CGM, Maersk in Talks to Buy Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines
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CMA CGM, Maersk in Talks to Buy Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines

  By Joyce Koh, Jonathan Browning and Aaron Kirchfeld (Bloomberg) — Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. said it’s in separate talks with France’s CMA CGM

November 7, 2015
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Friday, November 6, 2015
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A Borough In Alaska is So Close to Finally Selling the ‘World’s Most Ridiculous Ship’

They say that two happiest days of boat owner’s life are the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it. For a small borough of 88,000 outside

November 6, 2015
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bulk carrier Los Llanitos aground
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Salvage Gets Underway for Bulk Carrier Wrecked in Mexico

Mexican officials are just getting to work on the effort to clean up and scuttle a bulk carrier that wrecked along the country’s rocky Pacific coastline

November 6, 2015
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Cargo Ship Aground in Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait
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Cargo Ship Aground in Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait

Some more trouble to report Friday in Turkish waters with the Gibraltar-flagged cargo ship MV Schillig running aground while transiting the Dardanelles

November 6, 2015
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Passenger Falls Overboard from Oasis of the Seas in Bahamas
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Passenger Falls Overboard from Oasis of the Seas in Bahamas

  The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who fell overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas Friday morning approximately 80 nautical

November 6, 2015
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States Dig Deep Into Wallets in a Race to Deepen U.S. Ports
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States Dig Deep Into Wallets in a Race to Deepen U.S. Ports

  By Lauren Etter (Bloomberg) — Tired of waiting for Congress, states racing to deepen seaports before the opening of the enlarged Panama Canal next

November 6, 2015
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Maersk Profit Halves in Worst Market Since 2008

  By Sabina Zawadzki and Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Friday third-quarter

November 6, 2015
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CMA CGM Said in Talks to Buy Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines
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CMA CGM Said in Talks to Buy Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines

  (Bloomberg) — France’s CMA CGM SA is in talks to acquire Singapore container shipping company Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., as majority owner

November 6, 2015
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Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd Flounders in Market Debut
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Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd Flounders in Market Debut

  By Arno Schuetze FRANKFURT, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Shares in Hapag-Lloyd hovered around their issue price in their stock market debut as investors gave

November 6, 2015
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Maersk Oil Profit Sank 86% Last Quarter as Prices Plunge
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Maersk Oil Profit Sank 86% Last Quarter as Prices Plunge

  Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, Denmark’s biggest company, said profit at its oil unit dropped 86 percent in the

November 6, 2015
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
WATCH: Three of the World’s Largest Cranes Arrive in Mexico
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WATCH: Three of the World’s Largest Cranes Arrive in Mexico

Three of the world’s largest ship-to-shore cranes have arrived onboard the heavy lift ship ZHEN HUA 26 at APM Terminals Lázaro Cárdenas (TEC2) located

November 5, 2015
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TransCanada Scraps Plan for Quebec Crude Export Terminal
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TransCanada Scraps Plan for Quebec Crude Export Terminal

By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 5 (Reuters) – TransCanada Corp said on Thursday it has scrapped plans to build a port in Quebec and will have only

November 5, 2015
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Petrobras Strike Shows Unions Can’t Let Go of Boom-Year Dreams
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Petrobras Strike Shows Unions Can’t Let Go of Boom-Year Dreams

  By Peter Millard (Bloomberg) — Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the Brazilian state- run oil company grappling with plunging crude prices, a sweeping

November 5, 2015
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WATCH: World’s First LNG-Powered Dry Cargo Vessel Launched
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WATCH: World’s First LNG-Powered Dry Cargo Vessel Launched

Ferus Smit recently celebrated the launch of the Greenland, the world’s first dry cargo vessel to be fueled by clean-burning liquified natural gas. The

November 5, 2015
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Ship Photos of the Day – Sail Training Ship ARM Cuauhtemoc Arrives in Guatemala
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Ship Photos of the Day – Sail Training Ship ARM Cuauhtemoc Arrives in Guatemala

Mexico’s naval training ship ARM Cuauhtemoc at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala, November 4, 2015. The training ship arrived at Guatemala from Nicaragua

November 5, 2015
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