LAGOS, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Fifteen Russian sailors charged with illegally bringing weapons into Nigeria last year were granted bail on Monday and released

Things are getting ugly in the Southern Ocean between the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) fleet…

By Jef Feeley and Allen Johnson Jr. (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Co. are seeking to avoid billions of dollars in damages by

UDPATE The hurricane force storm that was over the western North Atlantic shipping lanes Feb. 23rd-24th has weakened and turned northward towards Greenland,

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — BP Plc heads into a sprawling trial Monday over who is liable for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history

At the start of each day of the hearings, Commander Kevin Carroll does the same thing: he reads a statement.  He tells all in attendance, “The purpose

MANILA – Salvage operations for the removal of the stricken USS Guardian from Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines resumed Friday as weather and sea

By Rob Sheridan (Bloomberg) — Hire costs for the largest oil tankers on the industry’s busiest trade route had this year’s biggest weekly

By Gustavo Bonato and Roberto Samora SANTOS, Brazil, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Dock workers returned to work at ports across Brazil on Friday after they

By Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert It was another early Friday morning for the crew of a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules based out of Coast Guard Air Station

By Ritsuko Ando and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 22 (Reuters) – A.P. Moeller-Maersk beat annual profit forecasts and predicted its container shipping

By Rob Sheridan (Bloomberg) — Frontline Ltd., the oil-tanker company led by billionaire John Fredriksen, dropped to the lowest level in 15 months in Oslo

UPDATE Jan. 24, 2013: Cannibal Rat-Infested Ghost Ship Story Hijacks the Internet -FAQ Update: According to data from the U.S. National

NEW YORK – Coast Guard harbor tugs Hawser, Line and Wire celebrated their 50th Anniversary of service to New York, New Jersey and Hudson River waterways

By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) — Halliburton Co. may escape paying billions of dollars in damages for its

ANCHORAGE, AK — The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said it has lifted the order restricting the movement of Shell’s Kulluk drilling rig from Kiliuda

MANILA — The Philippine Coast Guard on Thursday said it has called off the search for the 14 missing crewmembers of a Panamian-flagged cargo ship that

Teekay reported their FY 2012 financials today and if there was one word to describe Teekay operations at this very moment, it would be “Growth.”

David Lerman and Nick Taborek (Bloomberg) — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus confronted a tough choice in the competition to develop a small, speedy and

By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp, Transocean Ltd and 17 of their