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By Nadeem Every business connected to Internet is worried about cyber threats, which are growing day-by-day. Shipping companies seem to be taking cyber

View More: Newsmakers News|60 Minutes News|Live News|More News Videos   CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday aired a special on the sinking of the El Faro

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard marked Christmas Day with the delivery of the Baltic Sea icebreaker Murmansk at Vyborg Shipyard in Russia. 

On December 21, 2015, Mediterranean Shipping Company’s Ultra-Large Containership (ULCS) MSC Maya called at APM Terminals Gothenburg, becoming

A total of 15 LNG-powered inland barges to be chartered by Shell for use in European waterways will be equipped with Wärtsilä dual-fuel main engines

Jones Act shipbuilder Philly Shipyard says it has delivered the second of four LNG-ready product tankers to Crowley Maritime Corporation, marking the first new

Norwegian oil major Statoil has decided to terminate its contract with Transocean for the ultra-deepwater drillship Discoverer Americas over

General Dynamics NASSCO says it has successfully completed the LNG bunkering for the Perla Del Caribe, the world’s second containership to be powered by

Houston-based Atwood Oceanics says it has reached an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering to delay delivery of two ultra-deepwater

The  192-meter Hellenic Seaways ferry Nissi Rosos filmed making a quick turnaround at the port of Chios with the ANEK Lines’ ferry Eleftherios

The 600,000 tonnes Prelude FLNG facility, the largest offshore facility ever constructed, is nearing completion at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard

General Dynamics NASSCO on Saturday launched the first ship in a series of ECO-Class tankers for the SEA-Vista fleet. The christening and launch ceremony took

Houston ship pilot Lou Vest has a knack for snapping pics at just the right

The Port of Houston has for the first time ever handled more than 2 million TEU in 2015, the Port of Houston Authority announced Thursday. The new record

Researchers with the security firm IOActive have found that ships’ Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs) are vulnerable to hacking and attacks. VDRs, required for

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is urging further support of CO2 reduction measures at the IMO regardless of the final outcome of the UN Climate

A master’s reliance on scanty VHF information and another’s failure to keep a proper lookout contributed to a collision between a containership and

Vale S.A. and a consortium led by ICBC Financial Leasing, a 100 percent owned subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have

Shell has confirmed its plans to build a specialized LNG bunker vessel to deliver to LNG-fueled ships in northwest Europe. The new vessel will be based at the

On Friday, December 3, 2015, the DFDS ro-ro ferry Primula Seaways collided with the car carrier City of Rotterdam off Immingham, England on the