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LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) – London’s marine insurance market has extended the list of waters deemed as high risk to include Oman, the United Arab

By Jonathan Saul and Gwladys Fouche LONDON/OSLO, May 17 (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to

By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta, May 16 (Reuters) – The premier of Canada’s main crude-producing province Alberta on Thursday welcomed a Senate

Global mining company Anglo American has completed what is thought to be the first fully carbon offset voyage of a bulk carrier at sea, according to Rightship,

By Roslan Khasawneh and Muyu Xu SINGAPORE/BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) – A tanker carrying Iranian fuel oil in violation of U.S. sanctions has unloaded

A team of contractors has finally contained an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spewing from the site of a damaged platform for more than

PSA unboXed, the Singapore-based venture capital arm of PSA International, and Israeli-based theDOCK Innovation Hub have entered into an agreement to jumpstart

By Sherry Su and Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — Oil traders are starting the slow process of cleaning up cargoes of Russian crude that were loaded onto

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, May 16 (Reuters) – The marine industry’s January 2020 shift to using very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) to power ships

The Panama Canal completed a trial transit of Evergreen’s Triton, the largest ship by dimension and container cargo capacity to pass through the Expanded

  Ashored Technologies, a new company based in Halifax, Canada, has just been accepted into the prestigious startup accelerator Masschallenge. 

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials believe Iran encouraged Houthi militants or Iraq-based Shi’ite militias to carry

One dockworker has died and another sustained severe injuries in an accident at a Port of Los Angeles container terminal on Wednesday. A Port of Los Angeles

Another Grimaldi Lines vehicle carrier has been hit by a major fire. Authorities in Spain reported Wednesday that they were called to assist the Grimaldi Lines

Two yard workers have died and five others were severely injured this morning in a major explosion on board beached vessel at a shipbreaking yard in

By Sherry Su and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — Russia’s efforts to resolve an unprecedented oil-contamination crisis suffered a setback as the

By Stephen Kalin, Alexander Cornwell and Dahlia Nehme RIYADH/DUBAI, May 15 (Reuters) – Attacks on Saudi tankers and other vessels off the coast of

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) – London’s marine insurance market will meet on Thursday to assess whether it needs to change the risk

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg Opinion) — I spent much of my life in the U.S. Navy, including nearly 11 years on the deep ocean day-to-day, out of sight

May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. energy company Sempra Energy said on Tuesday the first liquefaction train at its $10 billion Cameron liquefied natural gas (LNG)

The bulk carrier that ran aground near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Solomon Islands back in February, threatening an environmental disaster, has now

The international shipping industry, as represented by multiple major shippowners’ associations, is concerned over recent trade developments,

By Pratish Narayanan (Bloomberg) — China’s latest retaliation against U.S. tariffs is set to prove largely benign to commodity trade flows as

HOUSTON, May 14 (Reuters) – A bottleneck of inbound traffic on the Houston Ship Channel eased on Tuesday though one-way travel restrictions remained

By Stephen Kalin and Alexander Cornwell RIYADH/DUBAI, May 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia said Washington should take what he