WA miners facing higher port fees

Western Australia’s miners will be hit with additional shipping fees of between 3c/t and 4c/t as part of...

Charter fees and freight rates may rise as smaller lines struggle with costs of Ballast-Water Convention

An international convention regulating ballast water, which ships with little or no cargo take on or discharge to maintain stability, takes effect in September.

CH Offshore recoups $60m in unpaid charter fees from PDVSA subsidiaries

Singapore-based CH Offshore has claimed back $60m of outstanding vessel charter fees from the subsidiaries of Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA, after a legal proceeding spanning close to three years. ...

European traders, shipowners at odds over new SECA fees in charter-party terms

As the implementation of new shipping Sulfur Emission Control Areas, or SECAs, comes into...

Barge Fees Limit U.S. Exports as Crops Compete for Space

As U.S. farmers begin the biggest corn and soybean harvests ever, the bins at Elburn...

Shipping firms ‘hit by port fees’

Shipping companies have claimed they were being forced to downsize because of increasing port fees.

PGS Seeing Higher Fees for Seismic Ships on Rising Brazil Demand

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS), Norway’s second-largest surveyor of underwater oil and gas fields, is seeing...