U.S. Maritime Industry’s Expanded Reach is Not Without its Risks
By Ira Breskin NEW YORK— Recognizing potential risks attached to the US maritime industry’s expanded reach was the theme of the Navy League’s
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By Ira Breskin NEW YORK— Recognizing potential risks attached to the US maritime industry’s expanded reach was the theme of the Navy League’s
By Joe Deaux, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) Shippers struggling to move grains and fertilizer along a dried-up Mississippi River are also racing
The heady growth of U.S. imports that were a hallmark of the pandemic era has come to end. A new Global Ports Tracker report released Friday by the National
By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) — The talks to broker a deal for 22,000 dockworkers on the West Coast are moving along, despite dragging longer than
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carriers could be forced to mothball more eastbound transpacific US west coast loops, and the vessels that
By Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions following North
By Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Shipping and commodities firms will commission more ships partly powered by liquefied natural
By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River is a vital US waterway that ferries key commodities between the
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) awarded nearly $39 million in grants to 12 marine highway projects across the country
The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a section of the Lower Mississippi River for dredging. The river is closed near Stack Island, near Lake Providence, Louisiana,
The United States’ only medium icebreaker has marked its third visit to the top of the world. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) reached the
Norwegian roll-on/roll-off shipping company Höegh Autoliners has joined the First Movers Coalition, a initiative led jointly by the World Economic Forum and
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ingram Barge Company, one of the country’s largest barge shippers, said Thursday it was “providing formal
The U.S. Coast Guard says it is responding to an increasing number of barge groundings due to low water levels in the Lower Mississippi River. The Coast Guard
Tanker shipping company Stena Bulk is launching a two-year, three phase project aimed at demonstrating shipboard carbon capture. The project, known as the
A.P. Moller-Maersk has ordered another six of its largest methanol powered containerships yet, bringing its total methanol-fueled orderbook to 19 vessels. The
GENEVA, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization forecast a slowdown of global trade growth next year as sharply
By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — White House officials have asked the US Energy Department to analyze whether a ban on exports of
By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Tuesday
By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – A recent Substack article in the “Misadventures in Shipping” series by analyst Edward Finley-Richardson notes that oil
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