Icebreaking vessels to reach Asia in half the time a trip through the Suez Canal would take. Christophe de Margerie, the icebreaking LNG tanker, has loaded her cargo at the...
China and the other BRICS nations pledged on Wednesday to fight protectionism and safeguard intellectual property rights, even as U.S. President Donald Trump considers action against what he sees as...
Euro zone prices at factory gates grew in June at their slowest pace this year, raising the prospect of a further easing of consumer inflation later in the year, data...
The number of people in Spain registering as jobless fell by 0.8 percent in July from a month earlier, or by 26,887 people, leaving 3.3 million people out of work, data from...
An increasing number of economists forecast that Japan’s consumer prices will not only fail to meet Bank of Japan’s target, but that they will peak as soon as this autumn,...
India’s central bank cut its main lending rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, as inflation and economic growth slow down. The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee lowered...
The European Commission has approved the joint acquisition of Belgian container terminal operator PSA DGD by Swiss Terminal Investment Limited Sàrl (TIL) and Singapore’s PSA International Pte Ltd (PSA). The...
Marine transporter Qatar Navigation (Milaha) recorded a 51.7 percent decrease in its net profit for the first half of this year, impacted by a global downturn in the maritime industry....
Bulgarian shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgare (Navibulgar) is looking to expand its fleet with four new Handymax bulk carriers. The company has ordered the 42,000 dwt ships at China’s Chengxi shipyard,...
After a painful decade in which the shipping industry has suffered from an unhealthy supply position, a sustained reduction in contracting has at last begun to move fleet orderbook into...
Classification society Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) has been accredited for EU MRV Monitoring Reporting and Verification services by Dutch Accreditation Council (Raad voor Accreditatie RvA). As explained, this accreditation...
The Paris Memorandum of Understanding (Paris MoU) has published a questionnaire for the forthcoming port state control (PSC) joint concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) on safety of navigation. The questionnaire will be...