World’s Priciest Ships: Winter LNG Boom Sends Charter Rates to Record
By Stephen Stapczynski and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — An unprecedented shortage of liquefied natural gas tankers has made them the most expensive
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By Stephen Stapczynski and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — An unprecedented shortage of liquefied natural gas tankers has made them the most expensive
By Paul Wallace, Verity Ratcliffe and Mohammed Hatem (Bloomberg) — The U.S. has classified Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization
By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s coldest winter in decades meant state-owned energy giant Sinopec was desperate to unload heating fuel from a
By Bloomberg News – U.S. President Donald Trump famously tweeted that “trade wars were good, and easy to win” in 2018 as he began to
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday that South Korea should avoid politicizing the seizure of its vessel by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the
This article is part of a series by Holland & Knight’s Transportation & Infrastructure Industry Sector Group leading up to President-elect
DUBAI, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian
DUBAI, Jan 8 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates will reopen all its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting Saturday, state news agency WAM
By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) — Oil posted the biggest weekly gain since late September as Saudi Arabia’s plan to slice output spurred a surge in
With International Maritime Organization targeting a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from ships by 2050, focus is shifting to which alternative fuels
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Major forwarders are engaged in fierce bidding wars in China, in order to secure equipment and space to North Europe.
By Elizabeth Low and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Ship owners facing looming deadlines to use less-polluting fuels have slashed the number of new
Jan 8 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index jumped about 11% to its highest in nearly three months on Friday as high Chinese
By Sheela Tobben and Dave Merrill (Bloomberg) — Five years ago on New Year’s Eve, the Theo T left the Texas Gulf Coast with the first U.S. shale
By Jonathan Gilbert (Bloomberg) — Exporters in Argentina, the world’s biggest supplier of soy products, breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday as grain
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has announced her resignation following the events at the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. In doing so,
Norwegian ro-ro shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen says it will be returning ships from cold lay-up as market conditions improve. In response to the
Jan 7 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index that tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities rose for a seventh session
By Eric Martin (Bloomberg) — The U.S. trade deficit widened to the second-largest on record in November as merchandise imports reached a more than
NYSE-listed Scorpio Bulkers has announced it intends to change its name to Eneti Inc. as the dry bulk shipping company sheds the bulk and transitions to the
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