Ship Insurers Primed to Raise Rates After Red Sea Attacks January 13, 2021 By Jonathan Saul LONDON — Insurers are set to raise the cost of providing cover for merchant ships through the Red Sea after...
China’s Bohai Bay Energy Terminals on Alert as Sea Ice Slows Ships January 12, 2021 By Muyu Xu and Chen Aizhu BEIJING/SINGAPORE — Chinese ports and marine safety authorities are on high alert as an expansion of sea ice makes it...
Longest Arctic Sailing Season Tops Off a Year of Climate Disasters December 15, 2020 By Anna Shiryaevskaya, Laura Millan Lombrana and Olga Tanas Thinning ice in the Arctic Ocean made this year’s navigation season for natural gas tankers the longest on record, the...
‘External Source’ Causes Oil Tanker Blast Off Saudi Arabia December 15, 2020 By Jon Gambrell DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early...
Arctic Headache for Ship Insurers as Routes Open Up October 27, 2020 By Jonathan Saul LONDON — When Captain Will Whatley guides a ship through Arctic waters, he is starkly aware of what can go...
Big Wheat Growers Are Starting to Hoard Supply April 15, 2020 By Megan Durisin The wheat market is starting to get shaken up by the ,. Panic buying of food might have largely eased...
Insurers Chartering Flights to Ship Gold to Ease Supply Logjam April 9, 2020 By Peter Hobson Insurance firms have started covering charter flights to carry gold, helping to ease logjams in the bullion supply chain that...
Tests Raise Alarms Over Fuel Blends Coming for Ocean-Going Vessels January 2, 2020 By Collin Eaton HOUSTON — As a global clean-fuel mandate takes effect Jan. 1, testing companies examining newer, low-sulfur marine blends acquired in...
Shipping Industry Sails into Unknown with New Pollution Rules December 12, 2019 By Jonathan Saul LONDON — Faced with imminent new global marine pollution rules, shipping companies and insurers are puzzling over the risks. To...
Viewpoint: The Wrong Way to Fight Porch Pirates December 6, 2019 By Sarah Halzack One consequence of America’s Cyber Monday shopping binge is the imminent arrival of $9.4 billion worth of merchandise on the...