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Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 sailed into its U.S. home port in New York Tuesday morning escorted by historic ships and Coast Guard vessels as the company

  Maersk Drilling has decided to decommission its jack-up rig Maersk Endurer amid the current over-supply of drilling rigs in the offshore market. Maersk

For the first time in the cruise industry history, an American female ship captain will take the helm of a giant cruise ship. Celebrity Cruises said Monday

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) sits at anchorage in Simpson Harbor off the coast of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, July 6, 2015.

  A Liberia-flagged containership is on fire in the East China Sea off the Japanese island of Kuchinoshima. Japanese media reports say that the

  CMA CGM Group has announced the christening of its newest and largest ship to date, the 18,000 TEU CMA CGM Georg Forster. The ship was christened during

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is encouraging all ship owners to speak to their ECDIS manufacturers following the recent announcement of updated ECDIS

London International Shipping Week 2015 (LISW15) is delighted to announce that Emily Maitlis, Presenter of BBC Newsnight and the News Channel, is to moderate

  Singapore-based Logitel Offshore Holdings has delayed the delivery of its second and third floating accommodation unit after striking an agreement

  A toxic mixture of overcapacity, weak demand and aggressive commercial pricing is threatening liner shipping industry profitability for the rest of

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has published new versions of some of its ECDIS Standards. These have been reviewed and updated to reflect

Ardmore Shipping Corporation has announced that its latest newbuild vessel, the Ardmore Seafox, was delivered by SPP Shipbuilding Co., Ltd from the Sacheon

  Rolls-Royce and a handful of partners are pushing ahead with the first steps of a new 6.6 million euro project that could pave the way for autonomous,

  MAN Diesel & Turbo licensee Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has for the first time successfully demonstrated the

Today’s ship photo of the day is of the CMA CGM Orfeo, a 10,000 TEUs containership that today symbolized the commercial relations between France and

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s global ship management group has completed the successful turnover of the Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) T-AGOS/T-AGM fleet and

Norwegian oil major Statoil has decided to suspend its contract for the semi-submersible drilling Scarabeo 5 due to overcapacity in its rig portfolio.

  South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has been awarded an NOK 7 billion (US$890 million) contract from Statoil for the construction of the

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) says that Mr. Ki-tack Lim of the Republic of Korea has been elected as the next IMO Secretary-General. Kim is now

  Construction has begun on the first structure for the biggest and most expensive industrial project in Norway for decades to come – the