COVID-19

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

In an Oval Office address to the United States about the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump announced a ban on all travel from Europe to the United States

By Stephen Treloar and Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Equinor ASA reported the first case of coronavirus among employees on oil and gas installations

By Michael Sasso (Bloomberg) — Accustomed to running at full speed this time of year, George Powers has watched as a shipping slowdown tied to the

March 11 (Reuters) – A proposal submitted by a cruise industry body to the White House on Tuesday seeks to deny cruise boarding to people over 70, unless

Greek shipowner Evangelos Marinakis has fallen ill with the coronavirus.  The 52-year-old himself confirmed on social media that the COVID-19 virus had

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Longshoremen hold a revered place in economic and political history — from the docks of London and South Africa to

U.S. West Coast ports were already facing headwinds this year from the protracted U.S.-China Trade War. Then came the coronavirus.  On Tuesday, the Port

By James Thornhill (Bloomberg) — Oil clawed back some of its biggest drop in a generation as a battle for market share between Saudi Arabia and Russia

OAKLAND, Calif., March 9 (Reuters) – The cruise ship Grand Princess, barred last week from returning to its home port of San Francisco and facing

The head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has tested positive for coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday. The Port

By Serene Cheong, Sharon Cho, Alex Longley and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Oil’s plunge has revived memories of the 2008-09 recession, when traders

AMSTERDAM, March 9 (Reuters) – The number of container ships travelling from China to the port of Rotterdam seems to have recovered slightly, as

By Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Oil prices lost as much as a third of their value on Monday in their biggest daily rout since the 1991

By Steve Gorman and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) – An ocean liner barred from returning to port in San Francisco due to a coronavirus outbreak on board

PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) – French shipping group CMA CGM said its operations in China were returning to normal after the coronavirus

By Ben Holland (Bloomberg) – The coronavirus epidemic and the attempt by governments to contain it may slash about $320 billion off global trade each

MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters) – Russia has ordered the mandatory disinfection of ships arriving at the Black Sea ports of Novorossiisk and Yuzhnaya

March 5 (Reuters) – Shares of U.S. cruise operators sunk on Thursday after the Grand Princess ocean liner, owned by Carnival Corp, was barred from