Friday, May 2, 2014
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News

Seagull Brings Competence Management System to the Dry Bulk Industry

PRESS RELEASE – Seagull has released the Bulker Industry Training Standard (BITS), a predefined competence management system for the dry bulk industry.

May 2, 2014
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News

Rickmers Maritime Presses on, Hopes for Market Recovery in 2015

According to Clarkson Research, global trade growth is projected to reach around 6.0 percent in 2014 as compared to 4.9 percent growth in 2013, yet with a

May 2, 2014
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News

Valero to Suncor Shun Overseas Imports at Eastern Canada Plants

By Christine Harvey May 2 (Bloomberg) — Suncor Energy Inc. and Valero Energy Corp. are poised to use only North American crude in eastern Canada by 2015,

May 2, 2014
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Blog

SPOTD: On Station at Grane

In the following image submitted to us by Øystein Osvoll, the supply vessel Havila Foresight maintains station next to the Statoil-operated Grane oil

May 2, 2014
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News

Fairmount Drags the Naga 3 Across South China Sea

Fairmount Marine, the Netherlands-based ocean-going tug operator, announced this week that their 205 ton bollard pull tug, Fairmount Expedition completed the

May 2, 2014
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News

Hanjin and Hyundai Must Sell Assets and Cut More Costs to Survive

By Mike Wackett, Against the continued toxic mix of oversupply and weak demand, cash-strapped ocean carriers are being forced to consider every creative

May 2, 2014
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News

West Hercules Makes Discovery in the Barents Sea

For the second day in a row, a Statoil-contracted drilling rig has found oil off Norway, this time however, the discovery was located 230 kilometers northwest

May 2, 2014
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MAIB Video: Man Overboard – 4 Years Later Lessons Remain the Same
Blog

MAIB Video: Man Overboard – 4 Years Later Lessons Remain the Same

A MAIB film first published in May 2010, now four years later the lessons remain the

May 2, 2014
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
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News

Mexico Seeks Quick Investment With Energy Reform Rules

Mexico's government on Wednesday proposed a set of rules tailored toward attracting quick investment to its oil and gas industry as it mapped out how the state

May 1, 2014
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Blog

I’ve Never Really Wanted a Microscope, Until Now

The following image may make you hesitate a bit the next time you open your mouth while swimming in the ocean.  Photographer David Littschwager shows one

May 1, 2014
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Finance

Oaktree Beats First-Quarter Estimates on Sales of Holdings

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Oaktree Capital Group LLC, the world’s largest distressed-debt investor, posted first-quarter profit that beat analyst estimates

May 1, 2014
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News

Subsea 7 Wins More Work from BP in the Gulf of Mexico

Subsea 7 announced today the winning of a 3-year $160 million contract extension from BP Exploration & Production for light subsea construction, and

May 1, 2014
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DIEPPE SEAWAYS
Incidents

DFDS Seaways Ferry Catches Fire Off Dover

The French-flagged Dieppe Seaways passenger ferry suffered a fire in its boiler room today according to a phone call with DFDS spokesperson Gert Jakobsen. The

May 1, 2014
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Multimedia

The Kids on the Sewol Had Very Little Clue They Were About to Die

Just released cell phone video recovered from the body of one of the students that died on board the Sewol captures the overall sense of naivety about the

May 1, 2014
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News

Tesoro’s Plan For Washington State Crude Railport Delayed

By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The start-up of a major Pacific Northwest rail-to-barge terminal that could bring hundreds of thousands of

May 1, 2014
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News

Happy Days Continue for Kirby as Grzebinski Takes Over

Kirby Corporation’s record profit streak has continued through the first quarter according to their latest earnings report. The inland tug and barge

May 1, 2014
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News

Songa Trym Finds Oil South of Fram

The Statoil-contracted drilling rig Songa Trym encountered a minor oil discovery while drilling wildcat well 35/11-17 located approximately 1 kilometer south

May 1, 2014
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News

Greenpeace Goes Bananas as Sovcomflot Tanker Arrives in Rotterdam

Sovcomflot’s ice class shuttle tanker Mikhail Ulyanov has been the target of a huge Greenpeace protest today upon arrival in Rotterdam. The tanker, which

May 1, 2014
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News

Life Imitates Art as Wall Street Bets on Shipping Debt

The fictional Robert Fairchild is one of the hottest names on Wall

May 1, 2014
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