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CAPE TOWN, May 28 (Reuters) – South Africa’s transport workers union Satawu threatened a “total shutdown” at major ports across the

By Karen Leigh and Shelly Banjo (Bloomberg) — The U.S. warned Hong Kong that it could face penalties if it does business with an oil tanker

By Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg Opinion) — Last weekend, Russia launched the last of a new crew of atomic icebreakers meant to consolidate the

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Seadrill Ltd. plunged to the lowest since it emerged from bankruptcy less than year ago after Carnegie Investment Bank AB

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, May 28 (Reuters) – Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) and CMA CGM, two of the world’s biggest container

By Michael Carr – At 23:00 on June 22nd, 1945, the general alarm bell was sounded onboard the USS Halloran, a 289 ft. United States Evarts class

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, May 25 (Reuters) – Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Saturday, part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A blanked sailing from the 2M+HMM grouping on the transpacific this week failed to halt the further erosion of

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — The rain across the Midwest and Great Plains that’s closed refineries, flooded streets and snarled Mississippi River

By Serene Cheong and Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) — The global push for cleaner-burning ship fuel is threatening to drive the value of Middle East

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday the deployment of 1,500 troops

The International Transport Workers Federation is calling on Transport Canada to ban foreign-crew from undertaking lashing work while vessels are underway on

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, May 24 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk , the world’s largest container shipping company,

By Angelina Rascouet (Bloomberg) — For decades, ships owned by French phone carrier Orange SA have traveled the world’s oceans, installing and fixing

By John Kemp LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) – Embargoes are rarely effective in compelling a change in diplomatic behavior because they create substantial

By Marianna Parraga, Florence Tan and Mircely Guanipa May 23 (Reuters) – German shipping firm Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) has moved to legally

SINGAPORE, May 23 (Reuters) – Dutch firm Heerema Marine Contractors and Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine, on Thursday, showed off the world’s

By Christopher Martin and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Developers pushing to install massive wind turbines in the waters off New York and

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — A major barrier that keeps the Mississippi River in its current path may be opened for just the third time

By Ahmad Ghaddar AMSTERDAM, May 23 (Reuters) – Shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more

By Christopher Porter – When security professionals address threats to transportation security, the discussion usually centers on aviation risks.

May 22 is National Maritime Day in the United States.  Initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, it commemorates the sailing of the

Cal Maritime’s Training Ship Golden Bear sustained minor damage after one of its mast hit a shoreside gantry crane as it arrived in Barbados on Tuesday

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. seizure of a North Korean cargo ship is the biggest stumbling block to improving bilateral

In 1988 the IMO made “Seaspeak” the international language of the sea. English is the principle language base of Seaspeak because it was the most common