COVID-19

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

By Amy Stillman (Bloomberg) — Of all the companies around the world affected by Covid-19, none has disclosed a worse death toll than Pemex, Mexico’s

By Tom Hals July 15 (Reuters) – A federal judge dismissed lawsuits by Grand Princess cruise ship passengers who sued for emotional distress caused by

By Andy Hoffman and Laura Hurst (Bloomberg) –The billionaire CEO of Gunvor Group told staff the firm thrived during the oil market meltdown caused by the

By Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO, July 13 (Reuters) – On Friday, May 1, two workers on the PXA-1 offshore platform owned by Brazil’s state-run oil

By Fran Golden (Bloomberg) –Hundreds of people lined the banks of Glasgow’s River Clyde a few weeks ago for the rare sight of a small, high-end cruise

The coronavirus pandemic continues to hammer U.S. west coast ports. The Port of Long Beach on Friday reported that 602,180 TEU was moved across its docks in

By K. Oanh Ha and Krystal Chia (Bloomberg) — More than a dozen countries with crucial global shipping hubs agreed to ease port and border restrictions

July 10 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp said on Friday it was planning to resume operations in a phased manner and would operate with a smaller fleet on its

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt has returned to its homeport in San Diego following a more than six month deployment that was plagued by

By Michael Hogan and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen HAMBURG, July 9 (Reuters) – Jens Boysen disembarked one of the world’s largest container ships on

By Jonathan Levin and Christopher Palmeri (Bloomberg) –Two of the world’s largest cruise operators insist their ships are no more vulnerable to the

By Christopher Palmeri and Jonathan Levin (Bloomberg) –Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., two long-time rivals in the

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) –Sharp swings in container freight rates are likely to continue this quarter as shipping companies struggle to gauge demand amid