Tag: shipping

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...

Operators cancel cruises and ferries

Color Line has cancelled its cruise-ferry service between Oslo and Kiel, Germany for the next two weeks, the company announced on Friday. The decision...

Media struggle with shipowner’s suicide

NEWS ANALYSIS: The death last week of Norwegian shipowner Wilhelm Wilhelmsen continues to stir interest, not least after it became known that he took...

Shipowner dies amid family feud

UPDATED: One of Norway's last remaining family-controlled shipping companies lost its patriarch Wilhelm Wilhelmsen over the weekend, just as a power struggle within the...
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