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By Manisha Jha (Bloomberg) — Investors betting that China’s near- insatiable appetite for industrial raw materials will drive global economic growth

  (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, September 28 (Fitch) China’s slower growth and economic transition will pose

  By Jonas Cho Walsgard (Bloomberg) — John Fredriksen, the billionaire who made his fortune investing in crude tankers, said he’s “very

Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry fell during the three months to February 2015 to their lowest level for two-and-a-half years, according to

More than a thousand delegates from the shipping industry gathered last month at the Hilton Athens for the Greek Shipping Forum, a day of speeches and panel

The European shipping industry supports employment of 2.2 million people and overall contributes €147 billion to EU economy, according to the results of a

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, according to a new study published by the American Geophysical Union

It was one year ago today that the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, also known as the “Seafarers Bill of Rights” or simply MLC 2006, entered into

A U.S. shipping firm is suing Alcoa for $300 million saying it suffered losses after the aluminium maker breached a contract with the Guinean government

Egypt has chosen a consortium that includes the Egyptian army and global engineering firm Dar al-Handasah to develop an international industrial and logistics

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) – Global private equity firm KKR has bought $150 million worth of shipping loans from two European banks amid

The shipping industry is poised to emerge from its longest downturn in three decades, buoyed by an end to years of overcapacity that have depressed freight

The momentum keeps building that shipping is indeed in a cyclical

The cost of hauling iron ore and coal along China’s coast rose to a 16-month high, adding to signs the nation’s demand is strengthening for the

By Wayne Arnold and Choonsik Yoo HONG KONG, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. economy may have stopped sneezing, but Asia’s exports are still laid up with

Paul Soros passed away at his New York City home, his son, Jeffrey Soros,

FRANKFURT, April 23 (Reuters) – NordLB’s, one of the world’s top ten ship financiers, expects the shipping industry to have passed its

Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry recovered to their highest level in two years in the three months ending February 2013, according to the

(Bloomberg) — China’s exports rose 25 percent in January from a year earlier while imports increased 28.8 percent, resulting in a trade surplus of

Banks will exert more control over the shipping industry this year as vessel values continue to decline, according to accounting firm Moore Stephens LLP.