dry bulk shipping

June 3 (Bloomberg) — Since Indonesia banned ore exports, the global nickel industry has been rocked by surging prices, Chinese workers like Zhang Qi

By Melanie Burton SYDNEY, June 2 (Reuters) – China’s northeastern port of Qingdao has halted shipments of aluminium and copper due to an

Phoebe Sedgman and Jasmine Ng May 30 (Bloomberg) — Tugboat officers at Australia’s Port Hedland joined deckhands in approving work stoppages, risking

Thai dry bulk shipping firm Precious Shipping (PSL) announced today the executing of a USD 81.50 million Term Loan Facility with Export-Import Bank of

By Jasmine Ng May 30 (Bloomberg) — Iron ore is heading for a sixth straight monthly decline in the longest losing streak on record as increasing supplies

China is interested in setting up a partnership with Brazilian mining major Vale to move iron ore from its giant vessels on to smaller ones, as a ban on the

A weak dry bulk spot market has provided John Fredriksen’s dry bulk shipping firm, Golden Ocean Group (GOGL) with a small, yet diminishing profit so far

PRESS RELEASE – Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE: SFL) today announced the agreement to acquire two 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax dry-bulk carriers built

The union representing tugboat workers at Australia’s Port Hedland, the world’s biggest bulk export terminal, will suspend taking strike action for the

By James Regan SYDNEY, May 21 (Reuters) – BHP Billiton said on Wednesday it may seek government intervention to avert industrial action by tugboat

Global miners and commodity traders are using multiple strategies to lock in favourable rates for shipping costs, anticipating a freight market recovery after

MELBOURNE, May 20 (Reuters) – Two of the world’s biggest iron ore miners BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals Group held-government sponsored

By Jasmine Ng May 19 (Bloomberg) — Iron ore futures in Singapore traded below $100 a metric ton for the first time since the contract started last year

SANTIAGO, May 16 (Reuters) – Chile president Michelle Bachelet said on Friday her center-left government was planning the development of a “big

Financially distressed dry bulk shipper Eagle Bulk has gained another two weeks to come to an agreement with their lenders to agree on a restructuring

By Phoebe Sedgman and Jasmine Ng May 12 (Bloomberg) — Tugboat workers at Australia’s Port Hedland approved work stoppages amid a dispute over wages and

May 8 (Bloomberg) — There’s so much cheap iron ore flooding into China that rates for the ships that carry it are forecast to jump almost 70 percent by

PRESS RELEASE – Seagull has released the Bulker Industry Training Standard (BITS), a predefined competence management system for the dry bulk industry.

By Juan Pablo Spinetto April 30 (Bloomberg) — Vale SA, the largest iron-ore producer, posted a steeper decline in first-quarter profit than analysts

April 28 (Bloomberg) — Iron ore futures in China, the biggest buyer of the steel-making commodity, fell the most in more than a month after a report that