Japan crude tanker rates fall on ample availability The world's benchmark super crude oil tanker rates from the Gulf to Japan have fallen to seven- month lows this week due to ample availability of vessels, traders said on Friday.
Shipbuilders' share prices tumble on news of cancellations SOUTH KOREAN shipbuilders' share prices tumbled following announcements of newbuilding cancellations.
Hutchison consortium named preferred bidder for Thessaloniki THE CONSORTIUM has guaranteed '419m ($653m) in fees over the 30-year concession period.
Tossed ship was 'like a disaster movie' GRAPHIC accounts have emerged of injuries and damage onboard the storm-struck cruise ship Pacific Sun
No day at the beach as ship refloated SALVAGE and towage specialist Multraship, working with Belgian salvage operator URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting, has refloated an Italian-flag chemical carrier that was grounded near a crowded Dutch tourist beach
Bulker refloated at Hedland WESTERN Australia's Port Hedland has been reopened to traffic after the Restis-controlled, 161,167dwt Iron King spent 12 hours aground in the port's main channel
California to sue over ship emissions CALIFORNIA'S attorney general plans to sue the federal environment for failing to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from ships and other equipment
West Coast containers decline in June Box volumes fall 4.6% through West Coast ports amid weak economy, cargo diversions during longshore contract talks.
California to sue EPA over ship greenhouse emissions
Ex-Im Bank guarantees loans for exports to Mexico
Intermodal rail declines
Motions filed against LA-Long Beach port truck plans
Briefing slated for Philadelphia terminal project
Hanjin wins contract for Port of Algeciras terminal
Is the collapse of the Doha Round of talks a serious body blow to globalisation? At the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) headquarters in Geneva this week the seven-year-long Doha Round [named after the inaugural meeting held in Doha, Qatar in 2001] finally hit the buffers after the US, India and China failed to reach agreement on the so-called special safeguard mechanism (SSM) to protect farmers in poorer countries from a surge of cheap imports.
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