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gCaptain’s full coverage of the maritime shipping industry, including containerships, tankers, dry bulk, LNG, breakbulk and more.


Sunday, December 27, 2020
Ships at anchor in Santa Fe, Argentina
Shipping

Argentina Calls Meeting to End Grains Ports Strike

By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Argentina is moving to resolve a ports strike that has bogged down agricultural exports from one of the

December 27, 2020
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Thursday, December 24, 2020
bulk ship
Shipping

Baltic Dry Index Marks First Yearly Gain in Three Years

Dec 24 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index posted its first annual gain in three years on Thursday as iron ore shipments to

December 24, 2020
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EU and UK Clinch Narrow Brexit Trade Deal
Shipping

EU and UK Clinch Narrow Brexit Trade Deal

By Guy Faulconbridge, Elizabeth Piper and John Chalmers LONDON/BRUSSELS, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with

December 24, 2020
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Ships at anchor in Santa Fe, Argentina
Shipping

Argentina Soymeal Manufacturers Offer Workers Deal to End 2-week Strike, Union Says Not Enough

By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week

December 23, 2020
Total Views: 1274

hapag-lloyd ship
Shipbuilding

Hapag-Lloyd Orders Six Ultra-Large Containerships at DSME

German liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has placed an order for six Ultra Large Container Vessels at South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

December 23, 2020
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Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai.REUTERS/Aly Song
Ports

Freight Boom Fires Buffett Trains, Maersk Ships and Oil Prices

By Alaric Nightingale, Jeffrey Bair and Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A great global restock is at hand, filling ships, trucks and trains, and also

December 23, 2020
Total Views: 10193

Tuesday, December 22, 2020
‘Matsonia’ Delivered to Matson, Completing Hawaii Fleet Renewal
Shipbuilding

‘Matsonia’ Delivered to Matson, Completing Hawaii Fleet Renewal

U.S. carrier Matson Inc. has taken delivery of the M/V Matsonia, the second of two new Kanaloa Class “con-ro” ships built for Matson by General

December 22, 2020
Total Views: 6879

Bottlenecks Wear Down World Economy’s Fleet of Container Ships
Ports

Bottlenecks Wear Down World Economy’s Fleet of Container Ships

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) – Container shipping, the backbone of the global trading system, is showing signs of fatigue as the pandemic descends

December 22, 2020
Total Views: 16590

Oil Tanker Bridge
Shipping

IMO Calls Out Charterers’ Use of ‘No Crew Change’ Clauses

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is calling out charterers over the use of “no crew change” clauses and says the controversial

December 22, 2020
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Monday, December 21, 2020
Satellites Used to Expose Risks of Forced Labor in Global Fishing
Shipping

Satellites Used to Expose Risks of Forced Labor in Global Fishing

By Nanchanok Wongsamuth BANGKOK, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fishing vessels with crews of forced laborers behave in systematically different

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 4514

Monkfish Price Tumble in Scotland Shows Pain of French Shutdown
Shipping

Monkfish Price Tumble in Scotland Shows Pain of French Shutdown

By Charlotte Ryan, Siddharth Philip and Christopher Jasper (Bloomberg) — At the Peterhead fishing port in Scotland, prices for haddock and monkfish were

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 3184

Edison Chouest Offshore to Install First Battery Pack on a Jones Act PSV
Environment

Edison Chouest Offshore to Install First Battery Pack on a Jones Act PSV

Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore has announced plans to install a battery system on board one of its 312-foot platform supply vessels working for a

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 3605

Stena Line Proposes Doubling Ireland-France Freight Route
Shipping

Stena Line Proposes Doubling Ireland-France Freight Route

DUBLIN, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Ferry firm Stena Line has brought forward a planned doubling of its direct Ireland to France freight service in response to

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 2570

Retrofitted BW Gemini Involved in Minor Collision in Panama
Accidents

Retrofitted BW Gemini Involved in Minor Collision in Panama

BW LPG’s newly retrofitted Very Large Gas Carrier BW Gemini has been involved in a minor collision while in Cristóbal, Panama, BW LPG has informed. The

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 3068

hastings bulk carrier coal ships shipping iron ore newcastle.REUTERS/David Gray
Shipping

Traders at Odds With China Import Ban Keep Coal Cargoes in Limbo

By Aaron Clark, Kevin Varley and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Seafarers stuck for months on vessels carrying Australian coal off China’s coast are trapped

December 21, 2020
Total Views: 10544

Sunday, December 20, 2020
danish fishing brexit
Shipping

Britain, EU Tell Each Other to Give Way in Trade Talks

LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Britain insisted on Sunday that the European Union should budge to open the way to a new, post-Brexit trade pact, drawing a

December 20, 2020
Total Views: 1876

Eneti offshore wind turbine installation vessel
Environment

Scorpio Bulkers Exits Dry Bulk Sector for Offshore Renewables

Scorpio Bulkers has announced its formal exit from the dry bulk shipping sector to focus on next-generation offshore wind turbine installation vessels,

December 20, 2020
Total Views: 3322

Costa Rican Sailing Cargo Ship Aims to Reduce Shipping’s Carbon Footprint
Environment

Costa Rican Sailing Cargo Ship Aims to Reduce Shipping’s Carbon Footprint

By Alvaro Murillo PUNTA MORALES, Costa Rica, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Some 200 workers from 27 nations are building a hybrid sailboat on the Pacific coast of

December 20, 2020
Total Views: 7721

Friday, December 18, 2020
A.P. Moller Holding Among Investors in Danish Green Hydrogen Startup’s $34 Million Fund Raise
Environment

A.P. Moller Holding Among Investors in Danish Green Hydrogen Startup’s $34 Million Fund Raise

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Danish electrolyzer startup Green Hydrogen Systems A/S raised 28 million euros ($34.3 million) to scale up production of

December 18, 2020
Total Views: 1304

Thursday, December 17, 2020
brexit
Shipping

Britain, EU Strike Pessimistic Tone in Post-Brexit Trade Talks

By Elizabeth Piper, William James and Gabriela Baczynska LONDON/BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union struck a pessimistic tone in

December 17, 2020
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