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SINGAPORE, April 21 (Reuters) – The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) announced two initiatives on Wednesday to reduce the

International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) respresentatives boarded the Ever Given in the Suez Canal’s Great Bitter Lake on Sunday for a welfare

April 21 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index surged to its highest in over a decade on Wednesday, powered by a jump in the

By Stephane Mahe PORT REVEL, France, April 21 (Reuters) – Francois Mayor nudged back on the power and made a subtle adjustment on the wheel as he coaxed

By Captain George H Livingstone – Anyone who works on the water understands both the practical and elemental connection between water and life. We earn

By Gerson Freitas Jr. (Bloomberg) — For John Arnold, the billionaire philanthropist who made his fortune betting on natural gas prices, Houston’s

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana has announced two more guilty pleas in a test score-fixing scheme at a U.S. Coast Guard exam

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The knock-on effects of the blockage of the Suez Canal is likely to impact North Europe supply chains until June.

By Andres Guerra Luz and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil fluctuated above $63 a barrel, exactly one year after U.S. benchmark crude futures plunged below

Norwegian exhaust gas scrubber company Yara Marine Technologies is joining forces with British-based BAR Technologies to offer commercial-scale wind-assisted

Global freight rates will remain high in the short term, but will moderate in the longer term once shipping supply-chain disruptions are cleared and more new

April 19 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships ferrying dry bulk commodities, rose to 1-1/2-year

John Konrad and Sal Mercogliano discuss the maritime news of the week in this latest episode of the gCaptain Weekly. Topics include the SEACOR Power capsizing,

A former crew member on board MSC Gayane containership has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for his role in a plot to smuggle $1 billion

By Sheela Tobben and Lucia Kassai (Bloomberg) — Canadian oil sellers are sending exports to the U.S. West Coast, an unexpected move prompted by the

Ontario, Canada-based Algoma Central Corporation has been fined $500,000 after pleading guilty to dumping wastewater into Lake Ontario, the U.S. Justice

ISMAILIA, Egypt, April 15 (Reuters) – Two crew members aboard the cargo vessel that blocked global shipping in the Suez Canal last month will be

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has placed an order for 150,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers amid the pandemic-fueled container crunch in Asia and

By Erica Yokoyama and Tsuyoshi Inajima (Bloomberg) — Some of the biggest industrial companies in Japan are working on a project that could trigger a

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will postpone its planned price hike on transit booking fees which were due to come into effect tomorrow. The ACP made the