By Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Oil that reached islands in southern Japan earlier this month is highly likely to have come from the

As many as 25 people were injured in an explosion aboard a ferry docked in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico on Wednesday.  Video of the incident shows

Executives from U.S. LNG exporter Cheniere Energy met with representatives from the Panama Canal this week in Panama to discuss the waterway’s growing

Sout Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has delivered the world’s largest LNG-fueled bulk carrier.  The 50,000 dwt vessel was ordered in 2016 by

The crew of a towboat was forced to abandon ship after their vessel caught on fire while pushing barges on the lower Mississippi River near Greenville,

By David Wethe (Bloomberg) — Explorers are once again testing the waters in their search for oil, according to Transocean Ltd., the world’s

ATHENS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Cyprus said on Wednesday it would press ahead with oil and gas exploration, signalling resolve in a standoff with Turkey over

LONDON/MOSCOW, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Shipments of oil products from a Russian Black Sea port, hit by a managerial conflict, have “collapsed”,

The European Commission on Wednesday fined four shipping companies a total of 395 million euros for taking part in cartel relating to the transportation of new

U.S. authorities are investigating the disappearance of the chief mate of a bulk carrier who went missing while his ship was at anchor in Puget Sound near

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is conducting an investigation into the fatality of a third-party construction worker in an area of the Gulf

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The world’s largest container company will start looking for takeover targets outside the shipping industry as it

Russian state-owned shipping company SCF Group has signed time charter agreements with a unit of Royal Dutch Shell for the charter of two of the world’s

An intense low pressure system in the North Atlantic was producing significant wave heights of an incredible 19 meters (62 feet) on Tuesday, according to the

Finnish technology company Wärtsilä on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling create a long-term strategy

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Prospects for the offshore oil drilling market are improving but profits for drillers are still under

By Isis Almeida (Bloomberg) — The shipping agency that struck the first freight deal settled in Bitcoin is now seeking $150 million to launch its own

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to compete directly with package delivery companies UPS and

By Tiago Ramos Alfaro (Bloomberg) — The U.K. has sold Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean to Brazil for about 84 million pounds ($117 million) as new aircraft

By Joachim Dagenborg OSLO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Dry bulk shipper Golden Ocean proposed a bigger than expected dividend for the fourth quarter on the back