Tokyo - Japan’s exports in January are forecast to have fallen at the fastest pace in more than two years as the U.S.-Sino trade war put the brakes on demand for Japanese electronics, car parts, and heavy equipment
Geneva - Global commodities firm Trafigura has decided to stop trading oil with Venezuela due to U.S. sanctions on the OPEC nation’s energy sector, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said
Copenaghen - Denmark’s Maersk Group has completed the renewal of its subsidiary Maersk Supply Service. Maersk Maker, its final vessel, has been delivered from Kleven Yard
Oslo - Norway’s marine insurance company Skuld warns the shipping industry against the consequences of the sanctions toward Venezuela
Rotterdam - At 469 million tonnes, the port of Rotterdam’s total throughput volume ended up slightly higher in 2018 than in 2017, which was itself a record year (467.4 million tonnes)
Copenaghen - The Danish Maersk Group and the American company PBF Logistics LP have announced an agreement to source andprocess crude oil
Paris - CMA CGM is aiming for Ceva Logistics to break even this year, its finance chief said on Tuesday, as the French shipping group opened a share offer to cement its control of the Swiss freight specialist
Seoul - South Korea will try to reduce its heavy reliance on exports to China as it seeks to diversify its overseas markets to Southeast Asia, the country’s top trade official said Monday as Yonhap news agency reports
