By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — The expanding network of giant windmills in the North Sea — the largest such collection in the world — is

by Clare Jim (Reuters) A Taiwanese naval “Friendship Flotilla” of warships dropped anchor in Nicaragua on Monday just weeks after China urged Taiwan’s

SYDNEY, April 10 (Reuters) – Vanuatu and China on Tuesday denied a media report that Beijing wanted to establish a permanent military presence in the

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — U.S. offshore wind developers have a space problem. Giant windmills with rotors that can stretch as high as 600 feet

By Aziz El Yaakoubi AL-MOKHA, Yemen, April 9 (Reuters) – High-tech radar units stretch along the quay of this tiny Yemeni port and underwater

By Kelly Gilblom (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is demonstrating how tough it is for a massive, 100-year-old oil company to become a

By Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. got such a “favorable” deal from Guyana, home to the biggest new deepwater oil play, that the tiny

Singapore shipbuilder Keppel Offshore & Marine has announced that a subsidiary has secured a contract to build Singapore’s first dual-fuel bunker

By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA, April 9 (Reuters) – Indonesia, acting on a request from Interpol, has seized a fishing boat carrying 600 illegal

By Isis Almeida, Cagan Koc and Anatoly Medetsky (Bloomberg) — A ship that crashed into an historic building at Turkey’s Bosporus Strait this weekend

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Marshall Islands environment minister David Paul has urged the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ shipping agency is under pressure this week to agree on a plan

The P&O Cruises Grand-class cruise ship Ventura has just completed a two-week docking at Damen Shiprepair Brest. Launched in 2008, this was the first visit

  ABS today announced it is engaged in a two-year project with the US Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) to deliver the industry’s first

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) A month after the blaze that claimed the lives of five seafarers on the 15,262 teu Maersk Honam, cargo owners still have no idea

by Dan Murtaugh and Klaus Wille (Bloomberg) Singapore’s state-owned natural gas importer brought in its first cargo of a super-chilled form of the fuel for

A Maltese-flagged bulk carrier crashed into a historic mansion on the shores of Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on Saturday after its steering gear failed,

By Anthony Capaccio (Bloomberg) The Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian has said the Navy should perform shock-testing soon to determine how well its new $12.9 billion

By Nick Ameen (USCG) Each year when the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star visits Antarctica, its crew faces a unique challenge. Creating a navigable channel

by John Konrad (gCaptain) The United Kingdom opened a permanent naval base in Bahrain on Thursday. The ceremony formally opening the UK Naval Support Facility