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“Charges will be filed shortly,” the Investigative Committee in Moscow said on its website today, although they seem to be backing away from the

Seventy-four Chinese fishermen were missing after a typhoon in the South China Sea sank three ships, the official Xinhua News Agency reported

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest shipping line, fell the most in a week in Copenhagen trading on

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — The widened Panama Canal will cut costs to ship U.S. cooking and heating gases to Asia by shortening voyages, effectively lowering

China Shipping announced today they have sold the 1993-built, 35,000 deadweight product tanker Ming Chi to Digang Shipyard for a total consideration of

Should U.S. disaster relief require American-grown food? Those with the best intentions may miss the full picture By Bruce Vail The next time news of a natural

By Ronnie Cohen Sept 28 (Reuters) – An Australian winemaker and his son, who own an island off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, have officially

A bridge in Jacksonville, Florida has been closed after it was struck Thursday afternoon by a RoRo cargo ship operated by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift

Jumbo this month saw the launch of the first ship in the heavy lift company’s new K3000 class, named Jumbo Kinetic, at the Brodosplit Shipyard in Split,

The Japanese-flagged cargo ship Eifuku Maru No. 18 capsized after colliding with the Sierra Leone-flagged Jia Hui about 7 miles west of Izu Oshima island,

China’s corn self-sufficiency could fall to 93% by 2018 and to 90% by 2020, according to an executive in the corn division at state grain trading

A large sea freighter completed a voyage through the hazardous Arctic Northwest Passage for the first time on Friday as global warming opens routes that

The Bloomberg consensus forecast for Asia’s 2014 GDP growth has slipped steadily during the past four months from 6.9% at the beginning of May 2013

Freedom of the press is something that I as an American, and many other countries, are extremely fortunate to enjoy.  This freedom has held our government and

Panama's Canal Authority slapped a fine on Thursday of up to $1 million on the owners of a North Korean ship seized in July for smuggling Cuban weapons under

An independent naval architecture firm in Norway has been awarded a contract for the concept design and option for the Front End Engineering Design for a new

On October 5, Vigor Industrial will christen the Arctic Prowler, the first large commercial fishing vessel ever built in Alaska. Built for the Alaska Longline

The deadly assault this week in Nairobi by a militant group from Somalia serves as a reminder of the threats emanating from the war-torn East African country

Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Maersk Line, the container unit of A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, said annual growth in the industry may be as low as 3 percent, forcing

It’s clear that the entire spectrum of opinions is covered when it comes to the arrest of the Greenpeace activists on September 19th. Some people are