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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese merged carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) recorded a net loss of $586m in its first year of operation,

The number of total losses among vessels over 500GT hit at a 20-year low in 2018 despite growth in the global fleet, according to the International Union of

By Carolyn Cohn and Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) – Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurer of seafaring vessels, is facing

Despite no reported losses in 2018, cargo liquefaction continues to pose a major threat to bulk carriers and their crews, according to bulk shipping

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s plans to expand offshore drilling are on hold after a March court

Maersk Supply Service announced Thursday it has been awarded a major FPSO mooring project for a U.S. oil major in the Gulf of Guinea. nder the contract, Maersk

EU NAVFOR Somalia Operation Atalanta has apprehended five suspected Somali pirates following incident that transpired over the course of several days.

By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA, April 25 (Reuters) – All offers from potential buyers of a strategically located but debt-laden Philippine

By David Lague and Benjamin Kang Lim ZHUHAI, China, April 25 (Reuters) – China’s powerful military is considered to be a master at concealing its

Wallenius and Swedish Orient Line have teamed up to launch a new shipping company focussing on the eco-friendly transport of forestry products and other goods

US-based subsea firm Ocean Infinity announced Wednesday it has completed the subsea inspection of the Grande America, which sank in the Bay of Biscay last

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — It seems Asia’s biggest oil buyer can’t stay away from crude pumped in the world’s fastest-growing supplier for

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Jenny Leonard and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump is seriously considering waiving the requirement that only

Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy awarded VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, a contract for the Detail Design and Construction of the

Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea have struck again. The International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre confirmed Wednesday that six crew

Located 207 km north of the Arctic Circle, on the northwest coast of the island of Greenland, Thule Air Base is the US military’s northernmost

The Panama Canal has welcomed the 6,000th Neopanamax vessel through the Expanded Canal with the transit of the LNG carrier Energy Liberty on voyage from the

The Maritime Administrator of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has released its long-awaited report on the investigation into the 2017 loss of the Stellar

Qatar, the world’s second largest exporter of liquified natural gas, has taken its first firm steps in a massive LNG shipbuilding program that could

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – Iran has said it would block the Strait of Hormuz if it was barred from using the strategic waterway through which about a

Suspected pirates attacked two fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia this week, the latest incident underscoring the continued threat to

By Ben Blanchard QINGDAO, China, April 23 (Reuters) – China showed off the first of its new generation of guided missile destroyers on Tuesday as

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Demand for the shipping industry’s main fuel is widely expected to collapse like never before in 2020, so it might come

By Lesley Wroughton and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop

By Michael Carr – “Let’s stab her into the bank and wait for morning,” the tug’s Captain finally said. “Thank God. Thank you Captain,”