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A livestock carrier carrying over 14,000 live sheep has capsized in the Black Sea off Romania, prompting a frantic effort to save the animals. The ship, the

Global bunker trader KPI Bridge Oil has reported that its sales of 2020-compliant fuels has exceeded the sale of high sulphur fuel oils for the first time. The

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired the Navy’s top civilian on Sunday over his handling of the

Nov 25 (Reuters) – General Electric Co has named Carolina Dybeck Happe, currently finance chief at shipper AP Moller-Maersk as its chief financial

By Gus Trompiz PARIS, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Shipping group CMA CGM said it planned to raise $2 billion to help finance its takeover of CEVA Logistics, with

By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Profits at Asian refineries are being buffeted by a combination of factors, chief among them

by Sylvia Westall (Reuters) – A French naval base in Abu Dhabi will serve as the headquarters for a European-led mission to protect Gulf waters that will

The U.S. Coast Guard has been monitoring the salvage of a semi-submerged tugboat which leaked diesel fuel in the vicinity of the Old Bonner Bridge in Oregon

Firefighters in Italy responded to an engine room fire on board a Grimaldi roll-on/roll-off ship near Livorno, Italy late Thursday night. The fire reportedly

Maersk Tankers will add eleven vessels to its managed fleet in deal with BP Shipping and ICBC Financial Leasing. Under the terms of the agreement, Maersk

The Port of Hamburg saw strong growth in the first nine months of 2019, with seaborne cargo throughput rising by 3.2 percent to 104 million tons, At that rate,

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The European Commission has indicated it is set to extend liner shipping’s consortia exemption from its antitrust

Interview by Paul González-Morgan (Marine Strategy) – Edmund Hughes is Head, Air Pollution and Energy Efficiency in the Marine Environment Division of the

By Captain George Livingston – Veteran’s Day this year got me thinking about the one military service branch I know well, the United States Coast

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Equinor offloaded a rare cargo of very low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) from Norway last week at

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Billionaire John Fredriksen stepped down as chairman of Seadrill Ltd., raising the question of whether he could become

HOUSTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Shortages of low-sulfur fuel oil could appear at some ports in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia next year, but most

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a deal to design and construct two luxury cruise ships for French cruise operator PONANT. The deal, which is

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk’s cuts in capital expenditure, including its decision not to order new vessels in the next two years, will

A consortium of offshore wind developers with leases off the U.S. Northeast coast has submitted their layout proposal to the United States Coast Guard. The

Nov 20 (Reuters) – Global oil refiners have upgraded processing units and adjusted operations to raise output of low-sulfur residual fuels and marine

SEOUL/DUBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement released three vessels and 16 people it had seized, South Korea’s

Nobody said that life at sea was supposed to be easy, but a new study by Yale University has identified worrying levels of depression, anxiety and suicidal

Celebrity Cruises announced the first all-female bridge team onboard its Celebrity Edge cruise ship for a history-making cruise that the company hopes will

By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is doubling his state’s offshore wind power goal as he competes with New York and