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By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY, April 5 (Reuters) – Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line) has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel conduct in the transport of vehicles,

By Wilda Asmarini and Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA, April 5 (Reuters) – A coal ship that dropped anchor off the coast of the Indonesian port city

By Chris Bryant (Bloomberg Gadfly) — It’s hard to imagine Soren Skou and President Donald Trump getting along terribly well. The softly-spoken boss

OSLO, April 5 (Reuters) – Global shipping should set a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Norway’s government and shipowners’

The U.S. Marines have fired a long-time Navy Chaplain who was caught on video having sex with a woman a New Orleans bar, USA Today reported Wednesday. On March

The world’s first shipping company focussing entirely on autonomous ships is being established in Norway as the shipping industry continues its push towards

By David Lawder and Michael Martina WASHINGTON/BEIJING, April 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration signaled on Wednesday that

By Stephen Kalin and Rania El Gamal RIYADH/DUBAI, April 4 (Reuters) – An attack on a Saudi tanker by Yemen’s Houthis will not hit oil

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – COSCO Shipping posted a net profit of $264m in 2017, reversing a loss of $1.1bn in the previous year, as it targets a

By Wael Mahdi and Mohammed Aly Sergie (Bloomberg) — Bahrain will invite international oil companies to help it develop its first major discovery in

A fully laden supertanker came under attack Tuesday in the Southern Red Sea while underway in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the European

Here’s an article you may be interested in that was published today by magazine Vanity Fair. In it, author Wiliam Langwiesche uses the 500-page

U.S. East Coast ship repairer Detyens Shipyards has been awarded a $20.6 million contract from U.S. Navy for a 94-calendar day shipyard availability for the

By Michael Martina and David Lawder BEIJING/WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) – China hit back quickly on Wednesday against U.S. plans to impose tariffs

MANAMA, April 4 (Reuters) – A new discovery off the coast of Bahrain is estimated to contain at least 80 billion barrels of tight oil, the

Shanghai Salvage Company has started moving personnel and resources to New Caledonia to carry out the final removal of the stricken cargo ship Kea Trader from

Port officials in Miami along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have dedicated a new real-time current mapping system that will

Editor’s Note: The following Safety Alert is being distributed by the United States Coast Guard, Inspections and Compliance Directorate following the

Update: Saudi Supertanker Attacked in Southern Red Sea; Tanker Reported Safe After ‘Explosion’ By Sami Aboudi and Stephanie Nebehay DUBAI/GENEVA,

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI, April 3 (Reuters) – COSCO Shipping’s planned acquisition of Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) is on track to be

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to Europe and from Asia to the US west coast are around 30% lower than 12 months

By Se Young Lee and Yawen Chen BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) – China warned the United States on Thursday not to open Pandora’s Box and spark a

JAKARTA, April 3 (Reuters) – Indonesia will postpone until 2020 trade rules requiring exporters of coal and crude palm oil to use only Indonesian-flagged

By Dara Doyle (Bloomberg) — At Antwerp’s sprawling port, the ripples from Brexit are already apparent. The Belgian port saw trade with the U.K. drop 5

One of the U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship is finally underway to her homeport in Mayport, Florida after spending the winter stuck in ice in