COVID-19

South Africa’s Transport Minister Fikile Mbalul has imposed a ban on cruise ships starting today amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.  The

AMSTERDAM, March 18 (Reuters) – The Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest, expects the flow of goods over the whole of 2020 to be “clearly

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, March 17 (Reuters) – South Africa is holding the cruise liner MV AidAmira and a cargo vessel off Cape Town after a crew

The world’s largest container line has suspended crew changes for all of its operated ships amid the coronavirus pandemic. In an emailed statement, A.P.

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Trading house Glencore has chartered the 3 million barrel crude carrier ‘Europe’ to store oil at sea

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Posidonia, one of the world’s biggest shipping exhibitions due to have been held in June, has been postponed

European ferry operator Stena Line has announced plans to layoff 950 employees due to travel restrictions imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic.   The

By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, March 16 (Reuters) – Equinor will extend its employees’ shifts at offshore platforms to 21 days from 14 days to reduce

By Jonathan Levin (Bloomberg) — Carnival Corp., the largest player in a cruise industry reeling from the effects of the coronavirus, said it expects a

By Roslan Khasawneh – SINGAPORE, March 16 (Reuters) – A surge in demand to ship the flood of crude oil unleashed by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC peers

By Jonathan Levin (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said the country’s biggest cruise lines will suspend operations for a month at his request,

By Muyu Xu and Dominique Patton BEIJING, March 13 (Reuters) – Severe congestion at Chinese ports is easing, say officials and industry participants,

March 13 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd said on Friday it was suspending its cruises in the United States for 30 days, an hour after Norwegian

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil is headed for its largest weekly collapse since 2008 as a bitter price war erupted between Saudi Arabia and Russia,

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is not considering broad relief from import tariffs on

By Enda Curran and Michelle Jamrisko (Bloomberg) — A pandemic-driven global recession is becoming more likely by the day as the flow of goods, services

By Mike Wackett – MSC is deploying the world’s biggest ships to evacuate empty containers from China to the US, as carriers on the transpacific try

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – Britain’s oil and gas sector association OGUK on Thursday banned people from travelling

March 12 (Reuters) – Princess Cruises, the operator of two ocean liners quarantined because of numerous coronavirus cases, said on Thursday it would

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations’shipping agency, has closed its headquarters in