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by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Shots were fired this week when a newly released US Maritime Administration (MARAD) document from 2020 showed that a

By Cecile Mantovani (Reuters) – Talks on extending a July deal that resumed Ukraine Black Sea grain and fertilizer exports are not making much progress

By Áine Quinn (Bloomberg) A logjam of vessels shipping Ukrainian crops eased at the weekend as inspections sped up, but the backlog remains high with just

by Nidhi Verma  (Reuters) Oil output at the giant Exxon-led Sakhalin-1 Russian Pacific project collapsed following the U.S. major’s refusal to accept

Pope Francis defends maritime migrants after Italy's newly elected Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for a "migrant blockade" to crack down on

China has issued its biggest fuel-export quota this year which will allow a lot more VLSFO marine grade fuel to reach the market.

By Skylar Woodhouse (Bloomberg) New York City is seeking bids from companies to operate its ferry system, a fleet of 38 boats that play a role in Mayor Eric

By John Irish (Reuters) France’s transport minister said on Sunday he would sign an agreement with Romania to help increase Ukrainian grain exports to

By Rajendra Jadhav (Reuters) – Rice loading has stopped at Indian ports and nearly one million tonnes of grain are trapped there as buyers refuse to pay

by Yesim Dikmen (Reuters) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will urge Moscow to send goods though a U.N.-backed Black Sea corridor when he meets Russian

By Jonathan Saul (Reuters) Too few ships are arriving in Ukraine to quickly clear mountains of grain built up over months of war despite a U.N.

by Jonathan Spicer (Reuters) A drop in global wheat prices in August was partly due to grain exports resuming from Ukraine and ensuring food and fertilizer

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) Energy traders and power utilities are storing more liquefied natural gas at sea, an unusual move to hoard supply for winter as the

by Nelson Banya (Reuters) South Africa, one of the world’s biggest citrus exporters, will voluntarily stop shipments of valencia oranges to the European

By Tarso Veloso and Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) US farmers facing supply-chain bottlenecks and a surging dollar are losing their competitive edge in the

by Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the West was not honoring its promise to help Russian

By Katharine Houreld (Reuters) – A ship carrying wheat from Ukraine to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa docked on Tuesday, the United Nations said,

by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters) Germany has secured a power link to a planned offshore wind hub in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea that will help reduce

By Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) –Progress toward an Iranian nuclear deal has thrown the spotlight onto a sizeable cache of crude held by Tehran that could be

(Bloomberg) Russian seaborne coal exports were effectively halted by a European Union ban on entities within the 27-nation bloc servicing shipments of the fuel