Shipping

By Paul Wallace, Sharon Cho, Verity Ratcliffe and Nourhan Samra (Bloomberg) — A ship was hit by an explosion at the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah, as

By Kate Abnett and Costas Pitas BRUSSELS/LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – London and Brussels agreed on Sunday to “go the extra mile” in coming

By Anna Shiryaevskaya, Laura Millan Lombrana and Olga Tanas (Bloomberg) — Thinning ice in the Arctic Ocean made this year’s navigation season

The operation to remove dislodged containers from the ONE Apus has started after permission was granted by the Japanese Coast Guard, its owner and manager said

By Tom Daly Dec 11 (Reuters) – CMA-CGM, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping line, has told customers it will not take bookings

(World Shipping Council) – To say that current trade conditions are challenging would be an understatement, particularly in North America, which is

By Stella Qiu, Shivani Singh and Roslan Khasawneh BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Dec 10 (Reuters) – China’s world-beating economic rebound from the coronavirus

By Alastair Marsh (Bloomberg) — Fidelity International is calling for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis and supply-chain risks caused

The Port of Long Beach has reported its busiest November on record as retailers make the final push before the holidays. Dockworkers and terminal operators

By Cassandra Garrison Dec 9 (Reuters) – An enormous iceberg is heading toward South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic, where scientists say a

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ships sailing through the Arctic region’s busiest lane along the Siberian coast made the highest number

By Matthew Lavietes NEW YORK, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of thousands of seafarers around the world are stranded at sea due to

Maersk Product Tankers has announced an agreement for the sale of 14 product tankers, a portion of which will be bareboat chartered back to the company. The

German container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd has raised its earnings forecast on a better-than-expected fourth quarter. The company said it now expects EBITDA

By Naimul Karim DHAKA, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The United States has blacklisted six companies, including several based in China, and four ships accused of illicit

The MV ONE Apus sailed into Japan’s Osaka Bay on Tuesday giving us a first good view of the devastation on board the ship after it lost nearly 2,000

Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based SEACOR Holdings has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to take the company private in a deal that values

A passing tanker transiting the Torres Strait off the coast of Australia helped rescue two people clinging to a wood plank after their vessel sank. The

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s exports jumped in November by the most since early 2018, pushing its trade surplus to a monthly record high