Monday, December 23, 2013
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News

Mercy Ships Orders New Hospital Ship from CSIC

Mercy Ships has announced that it has reached an agreement with China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) to build a new 36,600-GRT hospital ship at the

December 23, 2013
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News

Kinder Morgan to Acquire Jones Act Tanker Companies

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) has announced a signed agreement today to acquire Jones Act tanker companies American Petroleum Tankers (APT)

December 23, 2013
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News

Qatar to Boost Europe LNG Sales as Gas Trades at 7-Year High

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Qatar is poised to boost contracted liquefied natural gas exports to Europe by the most in five years as prices in the region are

December 23, 2013
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News

Indonesia’s Pertamina Predicts 36 Fewer LNG Cargoes In 2014

Indonesian state-owned energy firm Pertamina will produce 17 percent less liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2014, a company official

December 23, 2013
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
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Incidents

Cable Penetrations Almost Did In The EMMA MAERSK

The EMMA MAERSK suffered a flooding incident in February as it was getting ready to transit the Suez Canal. As reported earlier, water entered the vessel

December 21, 2013
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News

Who Let 110,000 Cartons of Bananas Go Bad?

A cargo ship with 110,000 cartons of overripe bananas will remain docked at a U.S. port while their owner and the shipping company battle in court over who let

December 21, 2013
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Ship Photos of The Day – Heavy Surf Sea Trials, Part 2
News

Ship Photos of The Day – Heavy Surf Sea Trials, Part 2

Safehaven Marine is taking perfect advantage of recent heavy weather and surf off the coast of Cork, Ireland. Last week they we saw the heavy surf sea trials

December 20, 2013
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WATCH: MV Reggeborg Launched at Germany’s Fersus Smit Shipyard
Shipbuilding

WATCH: MV Reggeborg Launched at Germany’s Fersus Smit Shipyard

The 23,000 DWT multipurpose cargo vessel Reggeborg was successfully launched this week at the Fersus Smit yard in Leer, Germany. The vessel is the second of a

December 20, 2013
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Featured Collection: Shanghai Shipyards [HD PHOTOS]
Shipyard

Featured Collection: Shanghai Shipyards [HD PHOTOS]

China laid out a detailed three-year plan in early August to restructure its massive shipbuilding industry, urging local governments to halt approvals of new

December 20, 2013
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Featured Collection: Shipyards of Shanghai [HD PHOTOS]
Press Releases

Featured Collection: Shipyards of Shanghai [HD PHOTOS]

China laid out a detailed three-year plan in early August to restructure its massive shipbuilding industry, urging local governments to halt approvals of new

December 20, 2013
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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
Defense

Navy Secretary Mabus Tightens Counter-fraud Measures

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2013 – While the Navy already has one of the strongest counter-fraud efforts in the

December 20, 2013
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Gazprom Starts Production at Russia’s First Offshore Arctic Oil Field Amid Controversy and Delays
News

Gazprom Starts Production at Russia’s First Offshore Arctic Oil Field Amid Controversy and Delays

Russia's first Arctic offshore field Prirazlomnoye, where Greenpeace activists were arrested in September after a high seas clash with Russian authorities, has

December 20, 2013
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Offshore

Norway’s Biggest Oil Find in Decades Suffers Setback

Statoil ASA lowered the resource estimate for the Johan Sverdrup oil discovery and delayed the start of production by about a year in a setback for the biggest

December 20, 2013
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News

Navis Engineering Builds on Singapore Success

Navis Engineering, the Finnish dynamic positioning and vessel motion control system manufacturer, announced today the completion of work on its latest project

December 20, 2013
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Engineering News

MOL Comfort Investigation Committee Unable to Replicate Casualty

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), in collaboration with ClassNK, released an updated report today on the

December 20, 2013
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Defense

First Black Woman Picked as Navy Vice Chief Says Wimps Will Fail

As a young midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, Michelle Howard didn’t strike some of her peers as an obvious candidate to become a four-star

December 20, 2013
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Nigerian Navy Boosts Camera Surveillance Against Pirates
News

Nigerian Navy Boosts Camera Surveillance Against Pirates

Nigeria's navy has installed eight automated, camera-equipped surveillance towers in the waters just off its coast, in an effort to tackle a surge in pirate

December 20, 2013
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News

Rates for Large Crude Carriers Could Inch Lower As Market Enters Holiday Mode

Dirty tanker rates on key Asian freight routes could edge down next week due to year-end holidays, but are likely to remain firm, ship brokers said on

December 20, 2013
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
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Finance

OSG’s Tax Liability $199 Million Less Than Previously Thought

Beleaguered tanker company Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (OSG), saw today its stock jumping 36%, amid very heavy trading. The stock closed at $6.05 per

December 19, 2013
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News

Technip Awarded Contracts On UK Continental Shelf

Technip was awarded four contracts by Shell UK, Fairfield Energy, Ithaca Energy and TAQA during 2013. As the longevity of fields represents a key challenge for

December 19, 2013
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