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Dry bulk shipping stands between a rock and a hard place, with the rock being the continuous plunge of freight...

Choosing a difficult and niche market segment is always a risk, especially when an entrepreneur is competing with oil giants...

For once more OPEC’s members didn’t surprise world oil markets. The informal meeting of cartel’s members last weekend in Cairo,...

According to Mr Bao Zhangjing chief researcher of China Shipbuilding Economy Research Center, the shipbuilding market stagnation will continue into...

Two of India’s top shipbuilding companies, as well as a third that is constructing a new facility, may have to...

The Port of Gulfport has big plans for expansion, but even at its current size and with a slumping economy,...

Cargo volume at West Coast ports, after years of being dominant in U.S. maritime trade, is slumping, clearly the result...

According to some major Chinese ports, though China's iron ore imports have decreased, for any single port, there is no...

Platts reported that Australian iron ore is in danger of losing its price competitiveness against Brazilian ore as the freight...

The Baltic Dry index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, retreated for a sixth-consecutive month in November as slowing...

The Baltic Dry Index continues to lower as the demand for raw materials continues to drop to unseen levels....

The Suez Canal might adjust its tolls for ships for 2009 in light of slower world economic growth and the...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Saudi King Abdullah on Saturday called for international efforts to protect shipping in the Gulf...

Somali pirates firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades hijacked yet another ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, this...

After two or three years' blowout, the Chinese shipbuilding industry will face a real test in 2011-2012, and the situation...

Sinopacific Shipbuilding, one of China's biggest private shipbuilders, has convened an emergency meeting next week in Hamburg with its western...

The CMA CGM Group is pleased to announce that the newly-built CMA CGM VELA, an 11 000 TEU capacity containership,...

Coal prices at Qinhuangdao port, China's largest coal port, witnessed the sharpest fall in the year in the past week,...

Qatar will start supplying liquefied natural gas to China in September under a 25-year contract, said an official with China...

Piracy has occurred through the ages together with the presence of the first Ships. People along the coasts of the...