Global Watchdogs to Keep Closer Eye on Shipping Alliances

Global Watchdogs to Keep Closer Eye on Shipping Alliances

Monitoring of the ever growing shipping alliances warrants a closer contact and better communication between ...

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USA Bans Cruises-to-Nowhere

USA Bans Cruises to Nowhere

The US-based cruise operator Carnival Cruise Lines has confirmed that it will no longer offer the so-called ...

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Port of Long Beach to Get USD 555 Million for Upgrades

Port of Long Beach to Get USD 555 Million for Upgrades

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved an USD 829 million budget for the Harbor Department’s ...

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Costly US Shale Oil Good News for Tanker Operators

Costly US Shale Oil Good News for Tanker Operators

A key driver of future tanker shipping earnings will be the extent to which US shale oil production is taken out of ...

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US Ports Account For Over Quarter of Nation’s Economy

US Ports Account For over Quarter of Nation's Economy

From 2007 to 2014, the total economic value that U.S. coastal ports provide in terms of revenue to businesses, ...

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USA: VIDA Step Closer to Senate Floor

VIDA Step Closer to Senate Floor

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved S. 373, the Vessel Incidental Discharge ...

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VIDEO: PMA Makes “All-in” Offer to ILWU

James McKenna, President & CEO of PMA

The slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) at major US West Coast ports ...

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US Extends Visas to Ethiopian Seafarers

USA Extends Visas to Ethiopian Seafarers

The United States has extended C1/D visas to Ethiopian seafarers to two years starting from January 2015. The ...

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LA County Ports Record Third Best Annual Results

2014 Third Best Year for Ports of LA and Long Beach

The U.S. West Coast ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will both mark the year 2014 as the third busiest in their ...

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Euronav Launches US IPO

Euronav

Shipping company Euronav NV has launched its underwritten initial public offering in the United States of ...

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G6 Drops More Californian Port Calls

G6 Drops More Californian Port Calls

After Seattle and Los Angeles, members of G6 Alliance decided to omit calls at the Port of Oakland amid ongoing ...

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MACS Starts New Europe-USA Service

MACS Starts New Europe-USA Service

MACS Maritime Carrier GmbH & Co., Hamburg, will start a new multipurpose monthly service between UK/North West ...

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DSME to Unveil Floating Storage Power Plant Concept

DSME to Unveil Floating Storage Power Plant Concept

South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) has made plans to introduce a new ...

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USA Joins ReCAAP

USA Joins ReCAAP

The United States of America has become the 20th nation to join the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating ...

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Ferry Adrift off Boston, USA

Ferry Adrift off Boston, USA

U.S. Coast Guard rescue crews assisted the crew and passengers aboard the Provincetown IV Ferry, which was disabled ...

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NOAA Researchers Evacuated amid Hurricane Threat

A GOES-15 infrared satellite image of Hurricane Iselle provided by the U.S. NRL in the Pacific Ocean

Sailors and Marines from the US Navy’s Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit ...

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FERC Gives Green Light to Freeport Liquefaction Project

Proposed liquefaction facilities (Trains 1 through 3) at Quintana Island Terminal

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized Freeport LNG Development, L.P. to site, construct, ...

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K-Line Lets America Ports In on Container Terminal Action

K-Line Lets America Ports In on Container Terminal Action

KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD. (K Line) has agreed on a transfer of a partial stake in International Transportation ...

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Seadrill, Rosneft Deal Moves Ahead Despite Sanctions

NADL, Rosneft Deal Moves Ahead Despite Sanctions

North Atlantic Drilling Ltd., a subsidiary of Seadrill, has announced that 6 binding offshore contracts have ...

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Peters & May Introduce USA to Australia Vessel ...

Peters & May Introduce First USA to Australia Shipping Service

Peters & May boat transport operator has announced the departure schedule of its newly introduced sailings from ...

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Crowley First to Order Mitsui’s ME-GI Engines

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has received the first order for electronically controlled gas ...

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