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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
ARC Re-Awarded $7 Billion Global Household Goods Contract from U.S. TRANSCOM
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ARC Re-Awarded $7 Billion Global Household Goods Contract from U.S. TRANSCOM

New Jersey-based shipping firm American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier has been re-awarded the Global Household Goods Contract by the U.S. Transportation Command.

June 30, 2020
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Couple Killed After Crabbing Vessel Sinks Crossing Siuslaw River Bar in Oregon
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Couple Killed After Crabbing Vessel Sinks Crossing Siuslaw River Bar in Oregon

Two people were killed early Monday morning after their fishing vessel struck a jetty in the Siuslaw River Bar and sank near Florence, Oregon. The U.S. Coast

June 30, 2020
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Saudi Arabia Makes Good on OPEC+ Oil Cuts

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia seems to have made good on its promise to cut oil production by a record amount in June. Observed Saudi crude exports for this

June 30, 2020
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Norway’s $2.6 Billion Carbon Capture Bet Could Help Save the Planet
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Norway’s $2.6 Billion Carbon Capture Bet Could Help Save the Planet

By Akshat Rathi (Bloomberg) — Plentiful reserves of fossil fuels and rich seams of valuable minerals are no guarantee of national health, wealth or

June 30, 2020
Total Views: 252

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Samsung Heavy, Bloom Energy Partner to Develop Zero-Emissions Cargo Vessels

By Dimitra Kessenides and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) –Samsung Heavy Industries Co. and Bloom Energy have announced an agreement to develop cleaner power

June 30, 2020
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CMA CGM to Impose Emergency Surcharge at Cape Town Port

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, June 30 (Reuters) – CMA CGM, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping line, will impose emergency congestion

June 30, 2020
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Monday, June 29, 2020
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Despite Trump’s Calls to Decouple, U.S. Companies Ship More From China Faster

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Just as the U.S. president urges American companies to ditch China, many of them can’t get more of China fast enough.

June 29, 2020
Total Views: 92

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Containership Loses Three Containers Overboard Off Western Australia

A Liberian-flagged containership lost three containers overboard off the coast of Western Australia last Thursday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority

June 29, 2020
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North Sea Ro-Ro to Install First Tilting Rotor Sails
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North Sea Ro-Ro to Install First Tilting Rotor Sails

Helsinki-based Norsepower will install two tilting Rotor Sails onboard a roll-on/roll-off vessel. Norsepower is a leading provider of auxiliary wind propulsion

June 29, 2020
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U.S. Shale Pioneer Chesapeake Energy Files for Bankruptcy

By David Wethe, Dawn McCarty and Olivia Rockeman (Bloomberg) –Chesapeake Energy Corp., the archetype for America’s extraordinary shale-gas fortunes,

June 29, 2020
Total Views: 61

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Oil Tanker Market May Take Trump’s Sanctions In Stride This Time

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) –The Trump administration’s plan to add as many as 50 oil tankers to an already long list of sanctioned vessels would be

June 29, 2020
Total Views: 92

Friday, June 26, 2020
Satellites Reveal Major New Gas Industry Methane Leaks
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Satellites Reveal Major New Gas Industry Methane Leaks

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) – Last fall, European Space Agency satellites detected huge plumes of the invisible planet-warming gas

June 26, 2020
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More Transatlantic Blankings Unveiled as New Trade War Threatens

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – 2M partners Maersk and MSC have extended the suspension of their TA4/NEUATL4 transatlantic loop through to September.

June 26, 2020
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Top Oil Pricing Agencies Launch New U.S. Crude Benchmarks

By Julia Payne and Devika Krishna Kumar LONDON/NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) – After U.S. crude futures took an historic plunge into negative territory in

June 26, 2020
Total Views: 86

Hapag-Lloyd Container-ship BOSTON EXPRESS
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Hapag-Lloyd to Halt Waste Shipments to China

FRANKFURT/BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) – German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it had notified customers it will stop accepting cargoes of solid

June 26, 2020
Total Views: 116

Thursday, June 25, 2020
Mariners Test Positive for COVID-19 Onboard U.S.-Flagged Maersk Idaho
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Mariners Test Positive for COVID-19 Onboard U.S.-Flagged Maersk Idaho

Mariners onboard the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Idaho have tested positive for COVID-19 in what is thought to be the first reported outbreak of the virus on an

June 25, 2020
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MSC Zoe loses containers
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Large Containerships Warned to Steer Clear of Wadden Islands During Heavy Weather

Authorities in the Netherlands are reiterating previous warnings to large containerships of the dangers of sailing near the Wadden Islands in the southern

June 25, 2020
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Eleonora Maersk Los Angeles Record
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Maersk Heads Zero-Carbon Drive with $60 million Research Center

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN, June 25 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipper, A.P. Moller-Maersk, will team up with industry majors

June 25, 2020
Total Views: 127

IMO’s ‘Day of the Seafarer’ Calls for #SeafarersAreKeyWorkers
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IMO’s ‘Day of the Seafarer’ Calls for #SeafarersAreKeyWorkers

The U.N. International Maritime Organization is highlighting the plight of seafarers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic on this year’s annual Day

June 25, 2020
Total Views: 105

Tanker Quarantined in Antwerp with COVID-19 Outbreak Onboard
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Tanker Quarantined in Antwerp with COVID-19 Outbreak Onboard

June 25 (Reuters) – The Belgian port of Antwerp has quarantined a Maltese-flagged oil tanker until at least July 4 after more than half of its crew

June 25, 2020
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