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The International Transport Workers’ Federation said it will now support ship crews’ rights to stop working, even if that comes at the cost of disrupting

June 17 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index recorded its biggest ever daily percentage jump on Wednesday, propelled by surging

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has formally launched its into claims that Canada’s pending ballast water regulations will unfairly hurt

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, June 17 (Reuters) – Pope Francis paid tribute on Wednesday to hundreds of thousands of seafarers stuck on ships due to

COPENHAGEN, June 17 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk , the world’s top container shipping firm, said on Wednesday that market demand was developing

While a handful of American maritime stakeholders, including Longshoreman unions and Military Sealift Command, took early and definitive action in support of

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – MSC is set to roll-out a customer carbon offsetting programme it has been trialling since last year. Since early

(Bloomberg) — Ravi Nagar hasn’t seen his wife and 3-year-old son in eight months. That’s because he was stuck on a tanker shuttling between the

June 16 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index rose to more than a six-month high on Tuesday, boosted by stronger demand for

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of weary seafarers stuck on ships for many months and unable to go home due to the

The International Maritime Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has taken the unprecedented step of telling the world’s seafarers to stop working if their

The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald has left a Mississippi shipyard to return to service nearly three year’s after its its fatal

By Jonathan Stearns (Bloomberg) –The European Union fired a warning shot at China over its global trade ambitions with an unprecedented tariff decision

LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) – British coastguards have located the wreckage of a U.S. fighter plane that crashed into the North Sea on Monday and the pilot

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) – Three Greece-based shipping firms said they have halted trade with Venezuela after the United States imposed

By Laura Millan Lombrana, Laura Hurst and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Spanish fisherman Josu Bilbao boarded a Qatar Airways flight headed for the

The major fire on board the Hoegh Xiamen has burned out after smoldering for more than a week at a dock Blount Island in Jacksonville, Florida, the

In this podcast gCaptain’s very own John Konrad sits down with David Hirschman of the Blue Economy Podcast to discuss some of the projects he has going

Salvors working the Stellar Banner wreck off the coast of the Brazil have scuttled the vessel more than three months after she ran aground loaded with iron

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) – U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called on all countries on Friday to designate seafarers and other marine

The Norwegian government has announced the opening of more than 860,000 acres of the Norwegian Continental Shelf to offshore wind development. The areas, known

By Luc Cohen and Marianna Parraga CARACAS/MEXICO CITY, June 12(Reuters) – Last year, China replaced the United States as the No. 1 importer of oil from

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) – Ship owners are postponing or canceling the installation of “scrubbers” that extract harmful

Liquid bulk shipping company Stena Bulk has released a concept design for a next-generation product and chemical tanker that will use flettner rotors, solar

President Trump has called on various federal agencies to review options for achieving a fully-operartional polar security icebreaking fleet by 2029. President