Wednesday, April 15, 2015
EMAS AMC Signs New Subsea IRM Contracts
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EMAS AMC Signs New Subsea IRM Contracts

Global subsea EPCIC contractor EMAS AMC, a subsidiary of Ezra Holdings, reports today new contracts worth upwards of $55 million to support the inspection,

April 15, 2015
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Norwegian Investigators Release Report on Accidental Lifeboat Launch

Norway’s Petroleum and Safety Authority (PSA) says faulty maintenance was to blame for an incident mid-January aboard the jackup rig Maersk Giant where

April 15, 2015
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Oil Trades Near 2015 High on Signs U.S. Shale Boom Is Easing

Oil traded near the highest price this year amid speculation a slowdown in the U.S. shale boom will ease the biggest supply glut since

April 15, 2015
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South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View
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South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View

(Bloomberg View) — On April 16, 2014, more than 300 people died when a passenger ferry carrying mostly high-school students sank off the coast of South

April 15, 2015
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Caterpillar Marine Acquires Key to Big Data – ESRG

Imagine operating a ship while continuously keeping track of 100 different things that were happening aboard your ship. It’s simple data collection, but the

April 15, 2015
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Royal Caribbean’s ‘Ovation of the Seas’ Heading to Australia

Royal Caribbean on Wednesday announced that its newbuild Ovation of the Seas cruise ship will head to Sydney, Australia for the winter 2016-17 season, a

April 15, 2015
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SpaceX Rocket Landing in HD Video
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SpaceX Rocket Landing in HD Video

Ok, so I know we already posted a clip of SpaceX’s latest attempt to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket atop a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but this

April 15, 2015
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Video: London-bound Aboard Mark Prior – Shipping TV
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Video: London-bound Aboard Mark Prior – Shipping TV

Here’s part 1 and 2 of a four part series by Shipping TV’s Chris Gosling. Chris is usually in the port of Felixstowe aboard some of the

April 15, 2015
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Panic on Mediterranean Migrant Boat Pitched Hundreds to Their Deaths -IOM
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Panic on Mediterranean Migrant Boat Pitched Hundreds to Their Deaths -IOM

Hundreds of people desperate to be rescued from a packed migrant boat in the Mediterranean pushed to one side when they saw a ship approach, capsizing the

April 15, 2015
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Russian Trawler Sinks After Fire
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Russian Trawler Sinks After Fire

A Russian fishing trawler that caught fire Saturday has sunk off the Canary Islands. Spain’s Salvamento Maritimo reports that the trawler Oleg

April 15, 2015
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Four Killed in Tanker Blast at Indonesian Shipyard
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Four Killed in Tanker Blast at Indonesian Shipyard

Four people were killed Monday after a tanker exploded at a shipyard in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The blast occurred Monday evening aboard the MT Palu Sipat

April 15, 2015
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Cargo Ships Stuck Off Yemen as Fighting Worsens Food Security
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Cargo Ships Stuck Off Yemen as Fighting Worsens Food Security

At least five merchant vessels carrying food are stuck off Yemen as warships from a Saudi-led coalition search them for weapons bound for Iran-allied Houthi

April 15, 2015
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SpaceX Rocket Barely Misses Drone Ship Landing – Video
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SpaceX Rocket Barely Misses Drone Ship Landing – Video

More footage: SpaceX Rocket Landing in HD Video A second attempt by SpaceX to land its re-usable Falcon 9 rocket aboard a ‘spaceport drone ship’

April 15, 2015
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Some 400 Migrants Killed After Boat Capsizes in Mediterranean
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Some 400 Migrants Killed After Boat Capsizes in Mediterranean

About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean

April 15, 2015
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Meyer Werft Buying Finland Out of Turku Shipyard
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Meyer Werft Buying Finland Out of Turku Shipyard

Family-owned Meyer Werft Shipyard is buying the Finnish Government out of its minority stake in the Turku Shipyard, now known as Meyer Turku Shipyard Oy. The

April 15, 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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New Ships 10% Less Fuel Efficient Than Those Built in 1990, Study Claims

A new study commissioned by the environmental groups Seas At Risk and Transport & Environment claims that new ships today are no more efficient than they

April 14, 2015
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Ex-USS Ranger Has Seen Better Days – Drone Video
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Ex-USS Ranger Has Seen Better Days – Drone Video

An aerial drone has captured some up-close footage of the ex-USS Ranger, one of the U.S. Navy’s first-ever ‘supercarriers’ and the ship

April 14, 2015
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Russian Trawler Burns Off Canary Islands – Incident Photos
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Russian Trawler Burns Off Canary Islands – Incident Photos

Update (April 15, 2015): Russian Trawler Oleg Naydenov Sinks After Fire Spanish authorities are working to save a Russian fishing trawler 4 days after it was

April 14, 2015
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LNG Carrier ‘British Sapphire’ Odyssey Shows LNG Market Going Local
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LNG Carrier ‘British Sapphire’ Odyssey Shows LNG Market Going Local

The tanker British Sapphire just finished its own version of Homer’s

April 14, 2015
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Russia’s Oblique Icebreaker “Baltika” Tested in Arctic Ice

Baltika, the first ship ever built with an asymmetric hull form, demonstrated what she was designed to do while conducting full scale ice trials recently. The

April 14, 2015
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