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By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — India’s government told all major ports that the coronavirus fight is a valid reason to halt some port operations,

By Kirsty Needham and Kate Lamb SYDNEY, March 25 (Reuters) – Greg Butler was rushed to hospital with COVID-19 within days of getting home to self-isolate

By Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik OSLO, March 25 (Reuters) – Norwegian oil firm Equinor plans to cut investments, exploration drilling and operating

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, March 24 (Reuters) – Cargo shipping companies will be exempt from antitrust rules against anti-competitive agreements for a

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – Three U.S. sailors on board the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier in the Pacific tested positive for the coronavirus,

The first U.S.-flag commercial vessel will transit the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on Wednesday, kicking off the start of the 2020 sailing season.

Royal Caribbean has entered into a new financing facility that to further boost the company’s liquidity as the cruise market tanks amid the coronavirus

By Jonathan Saul and Elisa Anzolin LONDON/MILAN, March 24 (Reuters) – Ships and their crews must be able to trade freely with minimal port restrictions

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be

The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy departed her homeport at Naval Station San Diego today and is now underway to Los Angeles in support of the nation’s

The Port of Savannah recorded a sharp increase in container volumes in February although it expects March numbers to dip due to impacts from COVID-19.  On

Seven seafarers have been kidnapped from a container ship off the coast of Gabon in the Gulf of Guinea. Dryad Global reported with high confidence on Sunday

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is calling on A.P. Moller – Maersk to protect its seafarers and terminal workers from the coronavirus

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – As the retail industry across Europe and North America begins to effectively shut down as governments enforce

OSLO, March 23 (Reuters) – Shipping firm Wallenius Wilhelmsen, which transports cars and other vehicles from factories to markets, has cut its

By Jonathan Saul and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) – Top exporter Saudi Arabia has chartered an armada of ships to flood the market with

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has announced that ADMIRALTY Distributors, Bogerd Martin and Global Navigation Solutions (GNS), are now approved providers of

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Lawmakers representing U.S. Gulf coast states on Friday asked Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to temporarily cut the

By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. – On Friday, March 13, 2020, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) announced that their ocean-going cruise

Salvage crews are continuing with the debunkering operation on the grounded MV Stellar Banner off Brazil.  Fuel oil from the vessel is being pumped to the