Tag: shipping

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...

Color Line cuts hundreds of jobs

There probably won't be so many cars or passengers rolling off Color Line ferries in the months ahead. The Norwegian shipping line that runs...

Hurtigruten keeps ships berthed

Norway's Hurtigruten cruise and shipping line is keeping more than half its fleet berthed in the midst of the ongoing Corona crisis that's hitting...

Seafarers ‘hostage’ to the Corona crisis

Norway, as a maritime nation, is expressing official concern over how more than 200,000 seafarers around the world remain stranded on their vessels because...

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