Shipping

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — It was meant to be one of the greatest transformations in the history of oil and shipping. Instead, a sweeping

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – U.S. investment company EnTrust Global, already a player in shipping finance, aims to buy ships

By James Davey LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Britain’s retailers and food manufacturers have called on lawmakers to urgently investigate ongoing

By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on companies based in China and the United Arab

As COVID-19 vaccines emerge, the importance of allowing travel and vaccinating maritime workers, who are viewed as “essential” in certain (but not all)

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Workers at the busiest U.S. seaport are plucking containers of toys off ships and out of massive stacks

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Many of the world’s biggest lenders to shipping companies fell short of carbon-cutting

Pete Buttigieg will replace current Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. By Jarrett Renshaw and David

Finnish wind propulsion company Norsepower says it has received an order to install its innovative “Rotor Sails” onboard a newbuild ship for the

By Captain George Livingstone – I am nearing the end of a forty-year career at sea which started as a junior officer on unlimited tonnage ships followed

By Simone Foxman (Bloomberg) — Qatar, the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas exporter, condemned the attack on an oil tanker off the coast of

SINGAPORE, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a fuel transport ship anchored at a Jeddah terminal was hit by an explosive-laden boat in

Brazilian mining giant Vale has announced the final delivery of iron ore using one of its converted very large ore carriers, VLOCs, after the company decided

By Marianna Parraga Dec 14 (Reuters) – A tanker chartered by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is loading Venezuelan crude for export, documents

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