Tag: shipping
Norway tries to save the seas
It may seem hypocritical for Norway, as an oil producing nation with lots of offshore platforms and occasional spills, to lead international efforts to...
Hurtigruten ran into trouble again
UPDATED: Norway's coastal shipping line Hurtigruten, tarnished by its failure to reveal Corona infection on board some of its ships last year, sailed into...
Fredriksen buys up Aker Brygge
Shipowner John Fredriksen, the Norwegian billionaire who now lives mostly in London, clearly wasn't content to merely base his shipping operations in Oslo's waterfront...
Billionaire art patron laid to rest
Tributes have been rolling in for weeks after Hans Rasmus Astrup, the shipping billionaire best known for being one of the world's leading art...
Adrift Dutch ship now under control
A Dutch cargo ship that lost power in a severe storm off Norway's west coast earlier this week was finally brought under tow in...
Cargo ship adrift in stormy seas
Norwegian officials were worrying about serious environmental damage after a Dutch cargo ship floundered in stormy seas off Ålesund on Monday and then lost...
Stowaways hid in tanker’s rudder
Four men from Nigeria managed to hide inside a compartment atop the rudder of a Norwegian tanker earlier this month, and then survived 10...
Hurtigruten service cut even more
Norway's deeply troubled coastal shipping line Hurtigruten has already cut service from 11 to just two ships sailing between Bergen in the south and...
Government angry with Hurtigruten
Prime Minister Erna Solberg has joined many others who are frustrated and angry with Norwegian cruise and shipping line Hurtigruten, which is supposed to...
Hurtigruten boss survives disgrace
Quarantine rules weren't followed, suspected cases of the Corona virus weren't followed up and crew members felt their lives were in danger but were...
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