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by Lauren Steenson (USCG) Modern day explorers from Arctic nations  are setting their sights north to map the seabed and establish sovereign rights to

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Dockworkers are planning a “noisy and active” protest outside the Aarhus headquarters of Europe’s largest

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Wednesday its intent to release a more detailed transcript to the audio recording from the El Faro’s

DAYING COUNTY, China, Nov 30 (Reuters) – You too may soon be able to feel what it was like to hit an iceberg on the Titanic. Construction of a

  By David Carey   (Bloomberg) — Wilbur Ross, who as Donald Trump’s commerce secretary will be the voice of U.S. business, made a

The following statement was released by the rating agency LONDON, November 30 (Fitch) Muted demand growth will exacerbate overcapacity for the shipping sector

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Shipping circles in Hamburg are abuzz with speculation that the Oetker family will announce this week that it intends to

By Benjamin Katz (Bloomberg) — BAE Systems Plc’s Scottish dockyards should be excluded from the lead role on a new class of Royal Navy frigate in

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to head the

By Chris Bryant (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Soren Skou doesn’t hang around. Shortly after he became chief executive of AP Moller-Maersk A/S in the summer,

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Britain needs to speed up shipbuilding for the Royal Navy and spread work more widely across companies and shipyards to help

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Sales of second-hand ships used to haul commodities such as iron ore, coal, grain and fertiliser have hit a

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) The Asia-Mediterranean trade is still “over-tonnaged”, with headhaul ship utilisation below other major east–west markets,

(Bloomberg) HSH Nordbank AG will stick to its full-year outlook when it reports nine-months results next week, a crucial yardstick for potential investors as

by Luca Casiraghi (Bloomberg) Havila Shipping ASA avoided a potential bankruptcy filing, after bondholders accepted a debt-restructuring deal hours before a

Last week we published a post titled Black Friday Deals For Sailors and it was immensely popular, generating almost a thousands purchases! Today we hope to do

Officials in the Cayman Islands are trying to determine exactly how much damage was caused to a coral reef after the grounding of the containership MV Saga

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U.S. military helicopter in the Strait

I don’t really get seasick, or any kind of motion sickness for that matter, but then again I’ve never landed a helicopter on the back of a heavily

By Sophie Sassard and Ron Bousso LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk and DONG Energy are in talks to merge their oil and gas

Norway-based offshore services company Havila Shipping says it has reached a last minute deal with all stakeholders, avoiding bankruptcy. Havila announced

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which rose to multi-month highs last week, could climb

BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The European Union’s naval mission will keep patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia for another two years, to

Ship traffic in the Bosphorus strait was halted for about an hour Monday after a bulk carrier collided with a roll-on/roll-off vessel around the

Jacksonville, Florida-based Crowley Maritime Corporation has announced it has won $2.3 billion, multi-year freight services contract from the U.S. Department