Chart Shipping says April proved to be a stable month for OSV rates in West Africa, but with low levels of chartering activities.

Iraq’s top shipping line is looking to expand and has been on a scouting mission to Korea. The vice minister of transport for Iraq visited Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering of Korea this week

The Suez Canal Authority is predicting revenues will increase by the end of this year to about $6bn on the back of higher rates and more boxships

In a significant move, China signed a pact with Pakistan which will connect the latter's strategically important port of Gwadar to it via

PT Samudera Indonesia plans to build a container terminal in Kalimantan. Construction will start next year and take a minimum of two years. The facility

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The Tasmanian Freight Logistics Council wants the port of Bell Bay to be dropped as the state's preferred major port. Bell Bay has been earmarked to be the principal container port

The board of the state-owned Port of Tallinn approved a long-term plan today to double turnover and profit by 2020. The company hopes

Kuwait's crude oil exports to South Korea in April grew 14.4 percent from a year earlier to 11.08 million barrels, or 369,000 barrels per day (bpd),

In January-March 2013 Belarus exported 4.074 million tonnes of oil products, 15.6% down from January-March 2012. The price for Belarusian oil

According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in the January-April period of this year Ukraine's exports of iron

A lot of attention is given to green-energy resources, such as wind, solar and tidal power. But should we be paying more attention to coal? Colorado Mining Association president

China's coal industry is facing severe overcapacity amid sluggish coal market performance and economic slowdown. Industry participants said that the excessive capacity is a

Saudi Arabia has cut crude oil production this year and will have to cut it further if it wants to prevent a significant drop in the global oil

Sources from the oil sector in the region said on Wednesday that Iraqi Kurdistan's sales of crude oil to world markets - which Baghdad considers illegal - is expected to rise by about

New data suggesting contraction in Chinese manufacturing have cast further doubt about growth in the world's No. 2 economy, hitting markets as investors worry

Brokerage firm Barclays Capital has lowered India’s growth forecast to 6 per cent for 2013-14 from the earlier projection of 6.2 per cent, citing

Hyundai Merchant Marine subsidiary has been granted Approved Training Provider status for their facilities and LNG carrier