COVID-19

By Stephanie Nebehay and Ryan Woo GENEVA/BEIJING, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The rapid spread of the coronavirus increased fears of a pandemic on Friday, with

LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Singapore has postponed its major shipping week gathering next month because of the coronavirus outbreak, the latest

By Anthony Esposito MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (Reuters) – A cruise ship with more than 6,000 people aboard was given permission on Wednesday to dock in Mexico

By Muyu Xu and Shivani Singh BEIJING, Feb 27 (Reuters) – China’s top container ports are loosening the backlog of cargoes on their docks as workers

By Ann Koh and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil extended losses after closing at a 13-month low as more new coronavirus cases were reported outside China

Update: Mexico Lets Cruise Ship Dock as Crew Member Found to Have Flu, Not Coronavirus By Jonathan Levin (Bloomberg) — A ship operated by MSC Cruises is

By Michael Shields GENEVA, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Tanker charter rates have plunged more than 80% as the coronavirus outbreak slams the brakes on major

By Richard Clough (Bloomberg) — The shipping industry will remain volatile for most of 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak in China upends the global

By Antonio Vanuzzo and Laura Benitez (Bloomberg) — The coronavirus outbreak is threatening to scupper a debt refinancing for the world’s third-largest

By Kate Duguid NEW YORK (Reuters) – The impact on cruise companies’ earnings from canceled trips, steep discounts and ships quarantined over

By Krystal Chia (Bloomberg) — The global shipping industry has run into very rough waters in 2020 as the virus crisis that’s engulfed China and roiled

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest container shipping company, is positioning itself for a strong rebound

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – China is struggling to resume normal trade operations as fallout from the coronavirus outbreak hits

By Linda Sieg and Ryan Woo TOKYO/BEIJING, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Hundreds of passengers trundled off a cruise ship in Japan on Wednesday after being held

By Terje Solsvik OSLO, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Shipping group Golden Ocean warned on Tuesday its profit would be hit by a slowdown in demand due to the

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Global trade in goods will likely stay weak in coming months as disruptions from coronavirus in China staunch the

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — February 2020 will come to be remembered as a period of historic disruption to physical supply chains the world over,

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The plight of the cruise ship off Japan with more than 200 coronavirus infections and the shunning of

By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Calculating the exact impact on commodity markets from the coronavirus epidemic in China is

By Muyu Xu, Shu Zhang and Devika Krishna Kumar BEIJING/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The coronavirus’s effect on energy markets is