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Friday, April 10, 2015
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News

BW LPG Orders New Gas Carriers

BW LPG Limited announced today new shipbuilding contracts have been signed with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for four Very Large Gas

April 10, 2015
Total Views: 108

Thursday, April 9, 2015
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SPOTD: Mark Zuckerburg Visits the Panama Canal

Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook, paid a visit to the Panama Canal today and observed the British-flagged chemical tanker CPO New Zealand as she made

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 55

Video: Bow to Bow with Maersk Edinburgh
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Video: Bow to Bow with Maersk Edinburgh

Shipping TV’s Chris Gosling takes his camera aboard the tug Svitzer Shotley as the tug goes bow to bow with the mighty Maersk Edinburgh – 243

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 69

Great Lakes Ore Trade Off to Slowest Start in Five Years
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Great Lakes Ore Trade Off to Slowest Start in Five Years

Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes have gotten off to a horrendous start this year with icy conditions and a clear need for operational icebreakers to

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 55

Washington State Ferry Rail Jumper Fined
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Washington State Ferry Rail Jumper Fined

A passenger of a Washington State Ferry has been fined $5,000 for intentionally jumping overboard from the vessel prior to its departure from the Bremerton

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 93

Statoil Strikes Oil at Gulf of Mexico’s Yeti Prospect
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Statoil Strikes Oil at Gulf of Mexico’s Yeti Prospect

Statoil announced today that it has made an oil discovery in its Miocene Yeti prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Yeti discovery was made in Walker

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 13

Wednesday, April 8, 2015
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Superyacht Dragonfly Comes to Vanuatu’s Rescue After Devastating Cyclone

Under the direction of the yacht owners, the crew of M/Y Dragonfly put the hammer down and sailed 1600 nautical miles over 3.5 days to reach the south Pacific

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 183

NTSB Opens Accident Docket on 2014 Houston Ship Channel Collision and Oil Spill
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NTSB Opens Accident Docket on 2014 Houston Ship Channel Collision and Oil Spill

The U.S. National Transporation Safety Board has opened its accident docket in its ongoing investigation into a 2014 collision in the Houston Ship Channel

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 109

Shipping Industry Urges ‘Immediate Action’ to Humanitarian Crisis in Mediterranean Sea
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Shipping Industry Urges ‘Immediate Action’ to Humanitarian Crisis in Mediterranean Sea

European and global shipowner groups and seafarer unions have banded together to urge EU Member States to take immediate action to address the growing

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 70

Drybulk Shippers Genco and Baltic Trading Agree to Merge
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Drybulk Shippers Genco and Baltic Trading Agree to Merge

Drybulk shipping company Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (OTCBB: GSKNF) and its subsidiary Baltic Trading Limited (NYSE: BALT) announced a definitive

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 108

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Engineering News

Webb Institute Announces New Academic Dean

Webb Institute, a tuition-free university that graduates students with double majors in naval architecture and marine engineering has announced today that

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 117

Tuesday, April 7, 2015
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Vidar Viking Extended at Sakhalin

Viking Supply Ships reports today their 200 ton bollard pull anchor handler Vidar Viking has had its contract with Sakhalin Energy extended until the end of

April 7, 2015
Total Views: 135

Monday, April 6, 2015
Greenpeace Activists Board Shell’s Arctic-bound Oil Rig
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Greenpeace Activists Board Shell’s Arctic-bound Oil Rig

Six Greenpeace activists have climbed aboard a Shell oil rig as it makes its way across the Pacific Ocean bound for Seattle and ultimately the Alaskan arctic.

April 6, 2015
Total Views: 87

Pirates Hit Product Tanker Off Indonesia
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Pirates Hit Product Tanker Off Indonesia

A group of pirates hijacked a product tanker off the coast of Indonesia earlier this month before making off with the ship’s cargo. The hijacking was

April 6, 2015
Total Views: 82

Watch: Parking a Triple-E at Felixstowe – Tug’s Perspective
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Watch: Parking a Triple-E at Felixstowe – Tug’s Perspective

This two-part series comes to us from Shipping TV‘s Chris Gosling who was aboard the tug Svitzer Stanford for the maiden call of the Triple-E

April 6, 2015
Total Views: 66

Friday, April 3, 2015
Listen: Houston Ship Channel Collision Full Radio Transmission
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Listen: Houston Ship Channel Collision Full Radio Transmission

Here’s a copy of the radio transmission from the collision involving the outbound chemical tanker MT Carla Maersk and the inbound MV Conti Peridot on

April 3, 2015
Total Views: 146

Houston Ship Channel Collision: NTSB’s Preliminary Marine Accident Report
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Houston Ship Channel Collision: NTSB’s Preliminary Marine Accident Report

The NTSB on Friday released its Preliminary Marine Accident Report on the March 9th collision between the chemical tanker MT Carla Maersk and MV Conti Peridot

April 3, 2015
Total Views: 144

Thursday, April 2, 2015
Next IMO Secretary-General – And The Nominees Are…
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Next IMO Secretary-General – And The Nominees Are…

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) says it has received six nominations for candidates for the position of Secretary-General of IMO. The election

April 2, 2015
Total Views: 49

Fire Out at Pemex Processing Platform
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Fire Out at Pemex Processing Platform

The fire at Pemex's Abkatun A- Permanente processing platform in the Bay of Campeche has been extinguished as the company begins to assess the

April 2, 2015
Total Views: 145

Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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Garrick Stanley Moves Over at Otto Marine

Otto Marine, the Singapore-listed offshore support vessel owner and shipbuilder reports today Mr. Michael See Kian Heng has taken the reigns as Group Chief

April 1, 2015
Total Views: 166