Thursday, August 14, 2014
Coastal Driller 4001 rig cimc raffles
News

CIMC Raffles Delivers New Jack-Up to Coastal Contracts Bhd

Malaysian offshore and marine services provider Coastal Contracts Bhd received a new Friede & Goldman-designed JU2000E jack-up drilling rig this week from

August 14, 2014
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Panama Says a $5.3 Billion Canal Expansion May Not Be Big Enough
News

Panama Says a $5.3 Billion Canal Expansion May Not Be Big Enough

A century after the U.S. steamship Ancon first sailed through the Panama Canal, a $5.3 billion expansion delayed by bickering contractors and angry workers is

August 14, 2014
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Can This Ocean Array Rid The World’s Oceans of Harmful Plastics?
News

Can This Ocean Array Rid The World’s Oceans of Harmful Plastics?

We first heard about this concept back in late 2012 when a first year aerospace engineering student named Boyan Slat gave a TED talk about how the Great

August 14, 2014
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News

Tsakos Announces LR1 Newbuild Partnership

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced today the signing of a newbuild plus five-year charter agreement with an undisclosed European oil major for

August 14, 2014
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Tugboat Captain Killed in Accident in New Orleans Industrial Canal
Interesting

Tugboat Captain Killed in Accident in New Orleans Industrial Canal

A tugboat Captain was killed Wednesday night in New Orleans after the crane from the crane barge it was pushing struck a bridge, causing it to crash into the

August 14, 2014
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Passenger Ferry Slammed By Rogue Wave
News

Passenger Ferry Slammed By Rogue Wave

A passenger ferry became disabled Wednesday off Massachusetts reportedly after being hit by a rogue

August 14, 2014
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grain elevators
News

Dry Bulk: Commodities Fall to Six-Month Low as Gains for Year Evaporate

Commodities fell to a six-month low, erasing almost all of this year’s gains, as oil and grains declined on signs of ample supplies and slower economic

August 14, 2014
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Great Bell of Dhammazedi dredging myanmar
News

Free-divers Search for 270-Ton Bell Resting Under 25 Feet of Mud

In 1608, a Portuguese warlord named Filipe de Brito e Nicote was causing trouble near Myanmar and attempted to steal the Great Bell of Dhammazedi from the

August 14, 2014
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hull structure ductile steel
News

Japanese Ductile Steel Technology Incorporated Into New MOL Bulker

Japanese engineers have introduced new technology to the shipbuilding industry in the form of “highly ductile steel plate” on board a newly

August 14, 2014
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
German Ferry Loses Power, Creates a Mess of Things on the Rhine
Incidents

German Ferry Loses Power, Creates a Mess of Things on the Rhine

Meanwhile, both anchors remain stowed in their respective housings… Then again, if I were the captain of that ferry, there’s probably a

August 13, 2014
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uss porter collision tanker gulf
Collision

Volts Shipping Sues U.S. Navy Over USS Porter Strait of Hormuz Collision

Citing violation of Rules 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, and 16, of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (COLREGS) and their

August 13, 2014
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Australian Navy Chief Inspects Fire Damage to HMAS Bundaberg
Defense

Australian Navy Chief Inspects Fire Damage to HMAS Bundaberg

The Chief of the Royal Austrialian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, was at a Brisbane dockyard on Wednesday to inspect damage to a the Armidale Class Patrol

August 13, 2014
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Venari Raises Additional $1.3 Billion to Bolster Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Inventory
Offshore

Venari Raises Additional $1.3 Billion to Bolster Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Inventory

Gulf of Mexico-focused deepwater exploration and production company Venari Resources says it has raised an additional $1.3 billion in equity commitments

August 13, 2014
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Owner of Overloaded Bangladesh Ferry Arrested on Murder Charges
Incidents

Owner of Overloaded Bangladesh Ferry Arrested on Murder Charges

A special Bangladesh anti-crime unit on Wednesday arrested the owner of a ferry that sank in a river killing about 110 people, the first time authorities took

August 13, 2014
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containership newbuild dsme
News

Scorpio’s Giant Boxships ‘To Earn $50,000 Daily’

Scorpio Group has probably lined up a bareboat rate of about $50,000 daily for the long-term charter of about 15 years’ duration of three, 19,200 TEU box

August 13, 2014
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Asia Buyers of U.S. Oil Struggle on Tight Ship Supply
News

Asia Buyers of U.S. Oil Struggle on Tight Ship Supply

Asian buyers of ultra light oil from the United States are struggling to find small-sized ships willing to undertake the month-long voyage at affordable rates

August 13, 2014
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Coast Guard Responding to Hazmat Situation at Kinder Morgan Terminal in Norfolk – Update
News

Coast Guard Responding to Hazmat Situation at Kinder Morgan Terminal in Norfolk – Update

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is responding Wednesday with state and local first responders in Virginia to an overloaded tank containing sodium hydroxide in

August 13, 2014
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Flag Gangos bulk carrier
Incidents

Bulk Carrier Flag Gangos Involved in Three Vessel Allision on the Mississippi

After losing power and steering on the Mississippi River late Tuesday evening, the Maltese-flagged bulk carrier Flag Gangos allided with the 105,000 ton

August 13, 2014
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maersk supply service subsea vessel
Engineering News

COSCO’s Shipyards Sign $526 Million in Newbuild Orders

COSCO announced a heap of new orders today including two new 64,000 ton dwt bulk carriers and four subsea supply vessels at their Zhoushan and Dalian yards,

August 13, 2014
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oil tanker stern departing outbound
News

First Oil Sails from Libya’s Ras Lanuf Since End of Blockade

An oil tanker carrying 670,000 barrels of crude has left Libya's Ras Lanuf oil terminal, the first shipment since the port was reopened following a year of

August 13, 2014
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