Norwegian oil company Statoil and the greater offshore community are mourning the loss of 13 people who died in Friday’s helicopter crash in

By Tim Kelly, Cyril Altmeyer and Colin Packham TOKYO/PARIS/SYDNEY, April 29 (Reuters) – In 2014, a blossoming friendship between Australian Prime

By David Brunnstrom and Greg Torode WASHINGTON/HONGKONG, April 29 (Reuters) – China has denied a request for a U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS

While piracy on the high seas continues to fall across most of the globe, International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Center is highlight growing

Update (April 30): The MSC Fabiola was refloated early Saturday morning with assistance of tugs and was able to resume its southbound transit. More details at

By Stephen Treloar and Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Seadrill Ltd., the offshore driller with the biggest debt load, reached a deal with its banks to

Update: Statoil has identified the victims as coming from Halliburton, Aker Solutions, Schlumberger, Welltec, Karsten Moholt and Statoil. The two pilots are

BRUSSELS, April 29 (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Friday it had cleared French shipping group CMA CGM’s $2.4 billion takeover of

Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein has launched the first vessel featuring the new X-Stern hull design at their Ulstein Verft shipyard in Ulsteinvik,

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has expressed concern over the safety of the new Panama Canal locks after an independent study into the

The internet is divided over a video that has surfaced showing a Norwegian cruise ship leaving the Bahamas as a distraught woman and her husband

Some really, really smart people at Stanford University have built human-like robot that they hope could one day revolutionize subsea exploration and

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, said an order to build three floating liquefied

The world’s most popular ride sharing app is expanding its ever-growing modes of transportation to include luxury yachts. Silicon Valley-based Uber has

Oregon State University is looking for a shipbuilder to construct a new 193-foot research vessel to add to the U.S. academic and marine science research fleet.

Investigators will need to launch a new mission to recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder found Tuesday at a depth of 15,000 off the Bahamas. The

Norwegian marine services group Østensjø Rederi AS has christened their new offshore construction vessel, Edda Freya, featuring a hybrid diesel-electric

Italy has become the latest Flag State to approve the use of ADMIRALTY e-Nautical Publications (e-NPs) and ADMIRALTY Digital Publications (ADP) as

The Panama Canal is set to hold a lottery to select the first vessel to transit through the Expanded Canal when it is inaugurated on Sunday, June 26. The

By Jonas Cho Walsgard (Bloomberg) — Shipping is about to lead a recovery in global offshore markets that have been battered by plunging oil prices,