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The Port of Corpus Christi ended 2019 with record tonnage for December with 13.8m cargo tonnes and 122.2m cargo tonnes for the year as a whole— a 16m-tonne improvement over 2018 tonnage.

A fishing vessel collided with the tanker Bow Fortune in Galveston, Texas leaving one dead and two missing

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced a series of measures, beginning 15 February, “to sustain an operational level of water and provide reliability to customers while it implements a long-term solution to water.

As technologies start to mature the 2020’s decade will see a revolution in business according to Chris Clott a director of New York Maritime Innovation Center (NYMIC).

The shipping industry has a number of reasons to be cheerful as it enters a new decade, despite some serious challenges in the immediate future, according to accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.

Diamond S Shipping Inc. has closed on a five-year $525m credit facility that includes a $375m term loan and a $150m revolving credit facility.

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) has penned an agreement to takeover Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) that will also see the company acquire the four suezmax tankers under ATC’s fleet.