Pirates and armed robbers on the high seas attacked 43 ships and captured 58 crew in the first quarter of 2017, a slight increase from the same

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is investigating multiple laser strikes on commercial vessels in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland during the last month. The most

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line is wasting no time in putting its blue stamp on the executive board of soon-to-be acquired Hamburg Süd, but

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has rejected the merger of the container businesses of K Line, MOL and NYK on

Global satellite provider Inmarsat has announces its new Fleet Xpress service has commitments to connect more than 10,000 ships at sea with high-speed

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy will delay by at least a year plans to award a multibillion-dollar construction contract for a frigate meant

By Luke Kawa (Bloomberg) — Signs are pointing to a looming slowdown in global trade growth, according to Morgan Stanley. Each component of the bank’s

COPENHAGEN, May 4 (Reuters) – DONG Energy said it has reached a settlement with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Technip over who bears

U.S. lawmakers from two key maritime states have introduced bipartisan legislation seeking to advance the capabilities of two-year community and technical

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Kartikay Mehrotra (Bloomberg) — Environmental groups are challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to restore

By Steve Scherer ROME, May 3 (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor who began an investigation into possible ties between humanitarian organizations that

By Andy Hoffman and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — The high seas have long been a battleground for the world’s biggest oil traders as they spend millions of

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — With the oil industry barely recovering from its most brutal slump in decades, you might expect the Arctic Ocean to be the

By Emma Farge DAKAR, May 2 (Reuters) – Authorities in West Africa have detained eight seven Chinese vessels for fishing illegally and the boat

May 3 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell for an eleventh

New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf International Marine has taken delivery of the first of two large capacity Multi Purpose Support Vessels (MPSV) that will

The Panama Canal on Tuesday welcomed the largest vessel to transit through the Expanded Canal since its inauguration in June 2016. The 13,092 TEU Neopanamax

By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN, May 2 (Reuters) – Armed attacks on ships in West African waters nearly doubled in 2016, with pirates increasingly focused on

Norwegian shipping and offshore magnate Kjell Inge Roekke plans give away the ‘lion’s share’ of his estimated $2 billion

The latest ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) to wear the crown for the title of the ‘world’s largest containership’, and one of the first