Press Release – A new report by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), titled the “European Maritime Transport Environmental Report,” or EMTER, outlines, for the first time, the full extent to which...

Cyprus has announced plans to vaccinate all seafarers, some 40,000 of them, on Cyprus-flagged and managed vessels. The plans were announced Friday in a circular by the Cyprus Shipping Deputy...

NICOSIA, March 9 (Reuters) – Israel and Cyprus have reached an understanding over gas reserves straddling their maritime border, the Cypriot energy minister said on Tuesday, in a key step...

(Reuters) – Turkey drew another rebuke from the European Union on Sunday when it said its Yavuz energy drillship would extend operations in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until mid-September....

On the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea near the major shipping routes connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa lies the island country of Cyprus, a small but important island in...

ATHENS/JERUSALEM, June 26 (Reuters) – Israel has asked Cyprus to examine the possibility of establishing a shipping point on the island for sending goods to the Gaza Strip, a Cypriot...

By Paul Tugwell and Georgios Georgiou (Bloomberg) — Cyprus’s first-ever shipping minister is setting her sights high. The country’s location and tax system have made it a shipping magnet —...

ATHENS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Cyprus said on Wednesday it would press ahead with oil and gas exploration, signalling resolve in a standoff with Turkey over access to potential energy...

By Paul Tugwell and Georgios Georgiou (Bloomberg) — Cyprus’s target to increase the contribution that shipping makes to its economy by around two percentage points over the next three years...

(Bloomberg) — Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that reported its first offshore natural-gas find in 2011, is studying an expansion of planned export capacity to help revive economic growth. The country...

By Michele Kambas NICOSIA, June 26 (Reuters) – Aiming for energy hub status and hoping to reboot an economy hobbled by a debt bailout – Cyprus started talks with three...

(Bloomberg) — Cyprus’s ship-management companies contributed more to the island’s gross domestic product in the first half of 2012 than they had for two years, the Central Bank of Cyprus...