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By Enda Curran (Bloomberg) — An omicron outbreak in China is sending jitters through supply chains as manufacturers and shippers brace for disruption

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday made his first visit to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to tour the nation’s largest port

By Stine Jacobsen (Reuters) – Container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk now plans to achieve net zero emissions in its business by 2040, a decade

By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Chinese thermal coal futures fell on Tuesday after Indonesia, the world’s biggest thermal coal

Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine, together with partners Mitsui O.S.K Lines and ITOCHU Corporation have announced Approval in Principle from the American Bureau

A new queuing process for containerships at Southern California ports will be expanded north to the Port of Oakland, shipping officials announced Monday. The

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin has started construction on what is set to become the largest LNG bunkering barge ever built in the

COPENHAGEN, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Top container shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk on Tuesday warned its customers it was still struggling to move

California Governor Galvin Newsom on Monday unveiled his 2022-23 state budget proposal, which includes a planned record investment of $2.3 billion for

By Gillian Tan (Bloomberg) — Project44, a startup that enables the world’s largest companies to track shipments across the global supply chain,

A containership operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE) has suffered a container collapse in the Atlantic Ocean while en route to New York. ONE confirmed the

By Lorretta Chen (Bloomberg) Genting Hong Kong, the troubled cruise operator controlled by Malaysian tycoon Lim Kok Thay, warned Tuesday of more defaults due

German cruise ship builder MV Werften filed for insolvency on Monday leaving the fate of the shipyard and its 2,000 employees uncertain, according to reports.

Lockport, Louisiana-based Bollinger Shipyards has announced its latest order from General Dynamics Electric Boat in support of the U.S. Navy’s new

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have once again postposed consideration of the “Container Dwell Fee” by another week. The ports are citing a

A.P. Moller – Maersk on Monday confirmed it has exercised options for four additional newbuild containerships to be powered by carbon neutral methanol.

Ten people are reported dead after a cliff collapsed onto tourist boats on a lake in southeastern Brazil on Saturday. The dramatic incident occurred at a

By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Heavy rainfall in southeastern Brazil has prompted miners including Vale SA to suspend some

The Royal Thai Navy last week was called to rescue a derelict cargo ship listing in the Gulf of Thailand, near the location of an offshore rig. Upon inspection

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — China tightened restrictions on vehicles entering Shenzhen, spurring concern that the delivery of goods to and from one of the