Thursday, January 9, 2014
Maersk Line Triple-E LEGO Set Hits the Shelves – SOLD OUT!
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Maersk Line Triple-E LEGO Set Hits the Shelves – SOLD OUT!

Sorry folks, but Maersk Line made the announcement Thursday that due to popular demand, the Triple-E LEGO kit is sold

January 9, 2014
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Broken Lock Backs Up Barges At Louisiana’s Industrial Canal

Broken Lock Backs Up Barges At Louisiana’s Industrial Canal

Barges are backed up on the Mississippi River near a New Orleans canal, delaying some shipments of gasoline and diesel to nearby states, after a 90- year-old

January 9, 2014
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EU Maritime Emissions Legislation Insufficient Says Dutch Think Tank

Dagmar Nelissen and Jasper Faber from Dutch think-tank CE Delft released a report this week analyzing the impact of proposed EU legislation this past June to

January 9, 2014
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Statoil Scraps Plan for Kristin – Polarled Deepwater Connection

Statoil ASA, Norway’s biggest energy company, canceled plans to build a pipeline tying the Kristin natural-gas field to the planned $4 billion Polarled

January 9, 2014
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Samsung Heavy to Build Another Five Boxships

In an exchange filing today, Samsung Heavy Industries announced the winning of an order from an unidentified European shipowner for five new,

January 9, 2014
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Sam Laud Plows Through Ice on the Detroit River [IMAGES]

Photographer Ken McQuillan sent us the following images of the 635-foot bulk carrier Sam Laud operating from Belle Isle to Zug Island on the Detroit River on

January 9, 2014
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Japan Likely To Fine NYK and Other Shippers for Price-Fixing

Japan's anti-trust regulator is likely to fine Nippon Yusen KK and three other shipping companies a total of around 22 billion yen ($210 million) for

January 9, 2014
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Engineering News

Rolls-Royce Takeover Talks With Wärtsilä End With No Deal

Rolls-Royce made a takeover approach to Finnish ship and power plant engine maker Wartsila but the talks ended without a deal, the two companies said on

January 9, 2014
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Maersk Ship is Latest Victim of North Atlantic Storm
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Maersk Ship is Latest Victim of North Atlantic Storm

Below is some video filmed Wednesday showing the MV Maersk Stepnica which was apparently forced to call at the port of Felixstowe after a row of containers

January 8, 2014
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Rolls-Royce in Talks to Buy Wärtsilä Ship Power

By Aaron Kirchfeld, Trista Kelley and Robert Wall Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc (RR/), the second-largest maker of airliner engines, is exploring an offer for the

January 8, 2014
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Two Dead, One Missing After Navy Helicopter Crashes Off Virginia Coast – Update 2

UPDATE 2: The U.S. Navy has now confirmed two fatalities from today’s crash and the search continues for 1 still missing. UPDATE: The U.S. Navy has one

January 8, 2014
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DHT Holdings Orders Third Very Large Crude Carrier

Crude tanker owner DHT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DHT) announced today that it has declared its option to construct a third VLCC at Hyundai Heavy Industries at a

January 8, 2014
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BIMCO Reflections: Oversupply Will Delay Shipping Market Recovery

BIMCO Reflections: Oversupply Will Delay Shipping Market Recovery

International shipping association BIMCO says that a steady improvement in the global economy has and will continue to bode well for most shipping sectors, but

January 8, 2014
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gCaptain Radio Episode 27: Rig Sinks at DSME
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gCaptain Radio Episode 27: Rig Sinks at DSME

This week marks the 27th episode of gCaptain Radio sponsored by Six Maritime. gCaptain Radio is a weekly talk show discussion with gCaptain founder John

January 8, 2014
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Maersk Line to Bring SeaLand Back

Maersk Line announced today the revival of the SeaLand brand with formation of a new US-headquartered, intra-Americas container shipping firm of the same name.

January 8, 2014
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Libya Threatens to Sink Oil Tankers

LIBYA'S PREMIER ZEIDAN SAYS ANY OIL TANKERS TRYING TO LOAD CRUDE AT SEIZED PORTS MUST STOP OR THEY WILL BE

January 8, 2014
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Ivory Coast Seeks Investment Into Offshore Energy Industry

Ivory Coast Seeks Investment Into Offshore Energy Industry

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan said his nation will boost oil production within five years to 200,000 barrels a day, rivaling neighboring

January 8, 2014
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Atlantica Signs 5-Well Contract Offshore Ivory Coast

Norwegian private equity firm, Hitecvision announced today that Houston-based Atlantica Tender Drilling Ltd, one of their many investments in the offshore

January 8, 2014
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China Oilfield…”An Attractive Deal for Investors”

China Oilfield has surged 46 percent in Hong Kong trading in the past year, as its main customer Cnooc Ltd. increased capital spending on offshore

January 8, 2014
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Panama Canal Expansion Builder Names Price in Cost Dispute

Panama Canal Expansion Builder Names Price in Cost Dispute

A group led by Sacyr SA said it will need more money than the Panama Canal Authority is offering to continue expansion work on the waterway as a dispute over

January 7, 2014
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