COPENHAGEN, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, said on Tuesday it would change the way it publishes

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued an interim guidance for the training of deck and engineer officers serving on ships subject to the Polar Code. The

OSLO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Global offshore drilling rig rates will remain at loss-making levels as the market continues to suffer from overcapacity,

Feb 16 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Tuesday, on gains

Investigators with the U.S. Coast Guard are getting ready to kick off the nine days of hearings in the probe into the loss of the American cargo

A new study revealed that currently there is no scientific data to support a change in working hours for towing vessel crew members. The study, conducted for

Norwegian oil major Statoil has announced the start of construction on the first of four topside units for the giant Johan Sverdrup oil field offshore Norway.

By Divine Ramzi (Bloomberg) — Piracy in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea has declined as the price of oil plunged to the lowest level since 2002. While

By Rosalind Mathieson (Bloomberg) — China’s increased reliance on non-naval ships to assert its claims in the South China Sea is complicating U.S.

A large crack that threatened the delivery of the Panama Canal expansion and pushed its planned opening back by several months has been fixed, the

Video shows the moment the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Xetha Bhum plowed into a pedestrian walkway lining the Chao Phraya River near the Bhumibol Bridge in

By Kyunghee Park and Jonathan Burgos (Bloomberg) — Sembcorp Marine Ltd., the world’s second- largest builder of oil rigs, posted its first quarterly

Feb 15 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, edged higher for a second

An ultra large containership had to make a controlled grounding in the Solent Saturday night while on its way to the port of Southampton, the second incident

By Denis Dyomkin and Lidia Kelly (Reuters) The Kremlin is considering reducing state stakes in shipping firm Sovkomflot as well as the oil

(Reuters) Libyan naval forces have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged tanker on suspicion of illegally entering Libyan waters in an attempt to smuggle gasoline,

by Anthony Dipaola & Hashem Kalantari (Bloomberg) Iran loaded its first cargo of oil aboard tankers to Europe since international sanctions ended,

(Reuters)Images shot in the hold of a boat where dozens of people died of asphyxiation after five hours in the Mediterranean brought home the horror of the

One of two diesel-electric azipod units used to propel Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas sustained damage as the ship battled an intense

New video posted to Youtube shows an Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel battle heavy seas approximately 100 nautical miles northeast of