COVID-19

By Rocky Swift and Ju-min Park TOKYO, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Passenger tests aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan confirmed at least 65 more

By Ju-min Park and Elaine Lies TOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Dozens more people onboard a cruise ship quarantined in the port of Yokohama, Japan, tested

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — Two of Europe’s biggest energy companies rejected a Chinese force majeure on liquefied natural gas contracts in

By Jonathan Saul and Lisa Baertlein – LONDON/LOS ANGELES, Feb 6 (Reuters) – China’s fast-spreading coronavirus is throwing the global

By Krystal Chia and Haidi Lun (Bloomberg) — The global commodity-shipping industry faces an extremely challenging quarter as the impact of the

By Jessica Jaganathan and Chen Aizhu – SINGAPORE, Feb 6 (Reuters) – China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country’s biggest

By Ju-min Park and David Dolan – TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Around 3,700 people are facing at least two weeks locked away on a cruise liner

(Bloomberg) — A grim situation for U.S. natural gas exporters has gotten even worse as the coronavirus outbreak sends global prices plunging on concern

Feb 4 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Tuesday warned of more cruise cancellations after calling off eight trips out of China through March 4

By Aaron Clark (Bloomberg) — Vessels and trains coming from China are in focus as nations take steps to halt the spread of a deadly coronavirus that

By Sakura Murakami and Naomi Tajitsu TOKYO, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Health screening began on Tuesday for some 3,700 passengers and crew aboard a cruise liner

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(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than freight.

TOKYO/SINGAPORE, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Shipping companies may face delivery delays of vessels fitted with exhaust gas filtering equipment that

ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Tests on a passenger from Macau aboard a cruise liner blocked in an Italian port confirmed on Thursday she did not have

Update: The sick crew members on board the CMA CGM Ural have recovered and coronavirus has been ruled out, according to a spokesperson with CMA CGM. 

ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Some 6,000 people are being kept on board an Italian cruise ship as tests are carried out on a passenger from Macau to see