COVID-19

By Terje Solsvik OSLO, July 31 (Reuters) – Four crew members on a Norwegian cruise vessel were diagnosed with COVID-19 after it arrived at the Arctic

By Jennifer Hiller HOUSTON, July 31 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp on Friday reported an $8.3 billion loss in the second quarter on asset writedowns from

By Ryan Hesketh, Prejula Prem and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — For clues about how glutted the global diesel market remains, just look at the bizarre

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Blanked sailings and network changes resulted in a mixed bag of throughput results at North Europe’s top two container

DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) – Global port operator DP World recorded a fall of 8.8% in second quarter container volumes, warning on Monday the outlook

By Javier Blas and Lars Erik Taraldsen (Bloomberg) –In March and April, as oil prices plunged to their lowest in a generation, Norwegian energy giant

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) –Oil weakened as economies from the U.S. to Asia signaled a deepening demand fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

A total of 85 crew members have tested positive for COVID-19 on an Alaskan factory trawler operating in the Gulf of Alaska. American Seafoods reports that an

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –The U.K. oil and gas industry says blanket testing of its workers is essential to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks offshore, but the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) – Shipping companies are still struggling to get hundreds of thousands of crew members back home after many

By Captain George Livingstone – I have not done a column for a while; it just did not seem I had anything to offer that was more important than

COPENHAGEN, July 20 (Reuters) – Denmark will allow merchant sailors stranded on the high seas since the outbreak of the coronavirus to come ashore and be

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –At almost any other moment in history, the promise of oil producers pouring millions of barrels of crude to the global

Carnival Corporation has announced the sale of four Holland America Line cruise ships to undisclosed buyers as the world’s leading cruise company sheds

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) –Crude dropped as investors assessed weak economic data and signals that a recovery in consumption may be slowing.

BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) – Testing of imported foods for the new coronavirus is pushing capacity at some major Chinese ports to their limit, major

July 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday extended its no-sail order for all cruise ships through

More than 776,000 fewer twenty-foot equivalent cargo containers moved across the docks at the Port of Los Angeles in the first half of 2020 compared to last

July 15 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp is planning to raise about $1.26 billion in a bond offering, the beleaguered cruise operator said Wednesday as it

Hapag-Lloyd has announced positive COVID-19 cases on board two of its U.S.-flagged ships. The German container shipping group said the cases were confirmed on