By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — As Iran prepared to return to the global crude market, ship insurance, an obscure but vital part of the commodity trading

OSLO, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Dry bulk shipping firm Golden Ocean plans to raise $200 million in fresh equity, backed by its main owner billionaire John

Too few U.S. and Canadian icebreakers and reliance on a single Poe-sized lock to connect Lake Superior to the Lower Lakes and Seaway are among the top issues

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) – China on Thursday launched a challenge to global shippers AP Moller Maersk and Mitsui OSK Lines, but analysts

OSLO, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor John Fredriksen’s dry bulk shipping firm Golden Ocean plans to raise $200 million in fresh equity as

Photographing a ship’s engine room is a daunting task for even the best maritime photographers because of the sheer size, breadth and scale of room and

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Newly-merged Chinese ocean carriers Cosco and CSCL, together with Evergreen, OOCL and CMA CGM are set to form a new

SAO PAULO, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Maersk Line, the world’s largest container ship operator, said on Wednesday it was consolidating operations in

(BIMCO) – 2015 was a busy year for container traffic on the eastern coast of the US. 7.9 million TEU of loaded containers entered the US East Coast in

Deepwater drilling contractor Ocean Rig UDW has announced two drilling contracts held with two separate clients have been terminated, with CEO George

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — Federal prosecutors have one last chance to send someone to jail over the deadly 2010 BP Plc Gulf of Mexico well

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — China sparked new questions about its intentions in the South China Sea after it deployed surface-to- air missiles to a

Feb 17 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose for the fourth

Wärtsilä has announced that it has signed a contract with Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design Co Ltd to design a new type of deep water dive support

By Mark Ellwood (Bloomberg) — Floating amid mega-yachts in Monte Carlo’s crowded harbor during the May 2015 Monaco Grand Prix was a startling sight:

From the uploader George Leonov: This time lapse footage was made while I worked on a containership the MV Carat going around the Baltic Sea and North Europe.

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – DP World’s two UK container terminals at London Gateway and Southampton are to offer shippers container weighing

By Barbara Liston Feb 16 (Reuters) – The captain of the U.S. cargo ship that sank off the Bahamas in a hurricane last fall, killing all 33 people on

By Capt. George H Livingstone, The recent grounding of the Ultra Large Container Vessel “CSCL Indian Ocean” got me thinking again about the relatively

Three people were pulled from the frigid waters of the Boston Harbor cold but alive after their 55-foot tugboat sank suddenly Tuesday morning. The U.S. Coast