Tag: shipping
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...
Last chapter for iconic ‘book boat’
Politicians in the newly-merged Vestland county in western Norway have decided that a unique floating library known as Epos will never again bring books,...
Tanker market turns for the worse
Just a week after tanker ship owners were raking in enormous profits by chartering their vessels for oil storage, the market has suddenly turned...
Hurtigruten demands crisis aid
Norway's venerable coastal voyage line Hurtigruten, now mostly a cruiseline, was sailing full steam ahead until the Corona virus crisis forced most of its...
Plastic pellet spill tied to container ship
Weeks after millions of small white plastic pellets started washing up on the shoreline of the Oslo Fjord, the source of the spill has...
Cruise ‘visionary’ dies at age 90
Norwegian shipowner Arne Wilhelmsen, one of the founders of the large international Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), died over the Easter holiday weekend with...
Stena’s ferry to Denmark shut down
Stena Line of Sweden has permanently shut down its passenger- and ferry service between Oslo and Fredrikshavn in Denmark, after more the 40 years...
Hurtigruten halts most all sailings
Norway's famed coastal voyage line known as Hurtigruten has taken 14 of its 16 vessels out of service and cut its weekly sailings between...
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