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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The path to complying with the IMO’s 0.5% sulphur cap regulations on bunker fuel in six months’ time will be

Update: More Arrests in MSC Gayane Cocaine Bust New details are coming in about the massive cocaine bust in the Port of Philadelphia earlier this week,

By Dave Gregorio NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) – Investors, developers and users of renewable energy at an industry conference in New York this week were

By Liam Denning (Bloomberg Opinion) –“It is not the role of the United States to take the lead in protecting neutral shipping in the [Persian] Gulf.”

June 20 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp cut its profit forecast for the year on Thursday, anticipating a hit from the Trump administration’s sudden ban

By Gavin van Marle in Rotterdam (The Loadstar) – Shipper opposition to deepsea liner shipping alliances may be dangerously misplaced, delegates at the

June 18 (Reuters) – Federal authorities seized 16.5 tons of cocaine worth more than $1 billion from a ship in Philadelphia in one of the largest drug

By Aziz El Yaakoubi FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, June 19 (Reuters) – The United States sought on Wednesday to bolster its case for isolating Iran over

By Collin Eaton HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) – U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 is proposing a deepwater crude export terminal off the U.S. Gulf Coast,

Federal authorities have seized approximately 16.5 tons of cocaine from a ship at the Port of Philadelphia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern

(Bloomberg) –A group of financiers with $100 billion of loans to shipowners are about to get stricter on the kinds of vessels they’ll finance as part

The United States has charged a Greek cargo ship operator and two of its chief engineers with environmental crimes for allegedly failing to record

Confidence in the shipping industry has fallen marginally over the past three months, largely as a result of ongoing concern over trade wars and increased

By Babak Dehghanpisheh GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) – If, despite its firm denials, Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf last week and a

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) – A group of leading banks will for the first time include efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions in their

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bunker market is far from ready for the substantial switch in demand to low-sulphur fuel, when the IMO’s 0.5% cap

Canada-based Atlantic Towing has entered into a contract with Norwegian ship technology group Havyard for the purchase of a state-of-the-art hybrid

By Michael Carr – Building a log cabin while underway is not easy. But I persisted and built one, many times over. Each time I began constructing the

By Aaron Sheldrick and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, June 17 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday that countries need to

The K-Line car carrier Diamond Highway has been abandoned in the South China Sea after a fire broke out on board the vessel late Sunday night, according to

DUBAI, June 16 (Reuters) – The two oil tankers crippled in attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran are being

By Verity Ratcliffe (Bloomberg) The Royal Navy plans to deploy 100 marines to the Persian Gulf to protect British ships after a series of attacks on vessels,

By Mark Niquette and Shawn Donnan (Bloomberg) There’s “no doubt” Iran was responsible for attacks on two oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf last week,

by Tarek Fahmy (Reuters) – Crew members of Frontline’s oil tanker Front Altair, one of two vessels attacked this week in the Gulf of Oman, have landed

by Lisa Barrington (Reuters) – One of two oil tankers crippled in attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran is