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The Coast Guard continues to investigate the loss of 21 shipping containers from the barge Ho Omaka Hou off Hilo, Hawaii. All cargo was successfully removed

By Nina Chestney LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – A global goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will not be met without a huge acceleration in

OSLO, July 2 (Reuters) – Pirates attacked an oil production vessel off Nigeria in the early hours of Thursday and kidnapped nine Nigerian nationals, the

By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors late on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to seize the gasoline aboard

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) – Crude exports from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) are hitting a record high even as U.S. crude

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will be conducting what it says it the world’s first long-term, full-scale testing of ammonia fuel in a marine

By Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –The cost of moving commodities like coal and iron ore across the world’s oceans is surging as China lifts cargo

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Ocean Alliance has overtaken the 2M alliance, adding the market share lead on the Asia-Europe tradelane to its

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) – Tens of millions of barrels of crude and oil products stored on tankers at sea due to the coronavirus crisis

New Jersey-based shipping firm American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier has been re-awarded the Global Household Goods Contract by the U.S. Transportation Command.

Two people were killed early Monday morning after their fishing vessel struck a jetty in the Siuslaw River Bar and sank near Florence, Oregon. The U.S. Coast

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia seems to have made good on its promise to cut oil production by a record amount in June. Observed Saudi crude exports for this

By Akshat Rathi (Bloomberg) — Plentiful reserves of fossil fuels and rich seams of valuable minerals are no guarantee of national health, wealth or

By Dimitra Kessenides and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) –Samsung Heavy Industries Co. and Bloom Energy have announced an agreement to develop cleaner power

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, June 30 (Reuters) – CMA CGM, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping line, will impose emergency congestion

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Just as the U.S. president urges American companies to ditch China, many of them can’t get more of China fast enough.

A Liberian-flagged containership lost three containers overboard off the coast of Western Australia last Thursday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Helsinki-based Norsepower will install two tilting Rotor Sails onboard a roll-on/roll-off vessel. Norsepower is a leading provider of auxiliary wind propulsion

By David Wethe, Dawn McCarty and Olivia Rockeman (Bloomberg) –Chesapeake Energy Corp., the archetype for America’s extraordinary shale-gas fortunes,

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) –The Trump administration’s plan to add as many as 50 oil tankers to an already long list of sanctioned vessels would be

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) – Last fall, European Space Agency satellites detected huge plumes of the invisible planet-warming gas

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – 2M partners Maersk and MSC have extended the suspension of their TA4/NEUATL4 transatlantic loop through to September.

By Julia Payne and Devika Krishna Kumar LONDON/NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) – After U.S. crude futures took an historic plunge into negative territory in

FRANKFURT/BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) – German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it had notified customers it will stop accepting cargoes of solid

Mariners onboard the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Idaho have tested positive for COVID-19 in what is thought to be the first reported outbreak of the virus on an