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The first LNG-fueled bulk carrier to transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia has arrived in Singapore for its first bunkering operation prior

Feb 7 (Reuters) – Flexport’s valuation more than doubled to $8 billion on Monday after a funding round led by venture capital firms Andreessen

By Jonathan Saul, Kate Abnett and Nina Chestney LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) – The European Commission has proposed adding shipping to the bloc’s

By Frank Coles – Over the last twenty years we have seen continuous discussions about the need for open sharing of data.  Recently this has become more

If the container shipping market is showing signs softening, ship charter rates have yet to receive the memo. The HARPEX index, which tracks pricing in the

By Julia Payne LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Tanker and barge shipments in and out of Europe’s biggest oil hub have been delayed by up to a week as

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Global feeder operators are having their heads turned by huge offers for their owned tonnage and chartered-in ships

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has introduced legislation to update federal regulations for the international liner shipping industry aimed at helping

Update: An army of tugs led by the Sovereign and Neuwark towed the Mumbai Maersk free at high tide early Friday morning. Six additional tugs were involved in

The shipping industry has seen a sharp drop-off in labor standards reporting, providing further evidence that seafarer wellbeing has been an unintended

By Vel Moonien in Mauritius – The Tresta Star, a tanker from the island of Mauritius, has run aground off the eastern coast of Reunion Island, a French

Feb 3 (Reuters) – Euronav deepened its quarterly net loss as the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus dragged on the

A lack of U.S. Coast Guard icebreaking assets has delayed cargoes this season on the Great Lakes despite a relatively mild and delayed onset of winter in the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Efforts to speed up the movement of goods around the world have yet to solve the supply chain bottlenecks

By Marianna Parraga (Reuters) – An Iranian supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of condensate this week began discharging at Venezuelan state-run

New open international registry launched in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Maritime unions strongly condemn the idea. A new U.S. Virgin Islands open ship registry

By Sergio Chapa (Bloomberg) — The U.S. held its ranking as the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas for a second month in a row, as

German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd “extraordinarily strong” operating results in 2021 thanks to higher freight rates, although volumes remained

LIMA, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Peru Environmnent Minister Ruben Ramirez said on Monday that the governmment will temporarily suspend

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bull run for ocean carriers appears unstoppable, with profitability in the first quarter of the year looking to be