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By Koustav Samanta and Jane Chung SINGAPORE/SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Asia’s oil refiners are starting to see a surge in demand for cleaner fuels

With winter approaching, worsening ice conditions and high water, the Great Lakes region could be facing potential job losses and serious financial

Interview by Mike Schuler – Gianluca Marucci is Global Director of Technical Services at Castrol, a leading global supplier of marine lubricants. With

TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Japan is working on a plan to send about 270 seamen to the Middle East to guard ships supplying Japan under a law that

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — The fate of at least 15 oil tankers idling off the coast of China holds the key to determining the path of global

Costa Cruises has taken delivery of the Costa Smeralda, the brand’s first cruise ship powered by cleaner burning liquefied natural gas. Costa Cruises is

By Julia Payne and Roslan Khasawneh LONDON/SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Disruption to shipping from the long-anticipated switch to more environmentally

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu (Bloomberg) — The boarding by pirates of a supertanker near Nigeria has highlighted a worrying trend for vessels to be attacked

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu (Bloomberg) –Pirates boarded a fully loaded supertanker off the coast of Nigeria, an act that is sure to ring alarm bells for

DNV GL has awarded China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding an Approval in Principle for the design of a 25,000 TEU LNG-powered containership which would be the

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc won a court ruling preventing environmental protesters from boarding unmanned oil

By Jenny Leonard and Niu Shuping (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are moving closer to agreeing on the amount of tariffs that would be rolled back in a

By Michael Carr – I worked at bracing myself under the ship, trying to steady my body against the hull while inserting the foam lance’s fabric-covered

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –Orsted A/S signed a deal to sell 100 megawatts of power from a German wind farm in the North Sea to Covestro AG, in what

By Gus Trompiz PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Container shipping firm CMA CGM will use the French Mediterranean port of Marseille for refuelling some of its

The Georgia Ports Authority is on track to exceed 4.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units for the first time in 2019 as it continues to add

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) Unifeeder has expanded its global reach and closed the gap on market leader X-Press with its acquisition of a majority stake in

The return of major losses in shipping and the increasing accumulation of risk, both onboard ships and ashore, is impacting various lines of the marine

By Rachel Adams-Heard and Simon Casey (Bloomberg) –Apache Corp. tumbled after the company’s update on a closely watched exploratory oil well off the

BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuters) – China on Monday banned U.S. military ships and aircraft from visiting Hong Kong and slapped sanctions on several U.S.

By Steve Holland and William Schomberg LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said a trade agreement with China might have to wait until after

Sea Machines’ remote-helm control marine technology is a core feature for both its flagship SM200 and SM300 products. Equipped with an intuitive joystick

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) –General Dynamics Corp. has received a $22.2 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to build nine more nuclear-powered

Havyard Group’s long-time CEO Geir Johan Bakke will leave the position after 18 years with the company. The Norwegian shipbuilding and technology group said

French authorities were called to an engine room fire on board a vehicle carrier Sunday in the English Channel. The French Navy reports that the fire broke out