The Society of Maritime Arbitrators (SMA) began its 2014 luncheon series with a presentation on “US Energy Independence” by Ken Bogden, director- global oil, at the PIRA Energy Group. Under the leadership of SMA board member Bob Flynn (tasked with...

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) is making foray into shipping acquiring two US Jones Act tanker companies for $962m from The Blackstone Group and Cerberus Capital Management.

Clay Maitland, managing partner of the world’s third largest registry, the Marshall Islands, has dispelled rumours of a second US Flag registry, claiming it is “not commercially viable”.

MAN has received an order for its most powerful dual-fuel engines ever, to power two new Jones-Act boxships for Matson Navigation Company.

Capacity for oil movements around the US Gulf has been expanding dramatically, according to recent reports. Most notably, the Houston/Corpus Christi area has benefited as they have become hubs for “tight oil” produced from the Eagle Ford and...

If nothing else, shipping is about good timing, which breaks down to various proportions of luck, external waves and winds supporting plans and strategies, and pluck, good execution, financially and operationally. So it goes with American...

This week saw more evidence of the impacts of the US “energy renaissance” on both the tanker and the offshore sectors. An order for two more Jones Act tankers was announced; this time, with Seabulk Tankers, wholly owned by Seacor, set to build two...

The health of the US coastal trades can be seen explicitly from the recently announced second quarter 2013 results for New York-listed Kirby Corporation. Kirby, best known as a consolidator in the brown-water inland and intra-coastal barge...

Soaring rates for tankers trading on the US domestic trades under the Jones Act were a hot topic at one of the panels at last week’s Marine Money conference in New York.