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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed H.R. 5769, the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014, by an overwhelmingly

Apart from a Howard Miller brass chronometer given to us as a gift, the gCaptain office is mostly devoid of nautical trinkets (but you will find us wearing

“I don’t think people can totally appreciate how remote this place is,” commented Team Vestas’ shore manager Neil Cox.   Nine of his

SINGAPORE: E-navigation specialist NAVTOR has set course for Asia, with the news that the Egersund, Norway-based business has opened an office in Singapore.

The merged company will have around 200 vessels with a total capacity of approximately one million TEU, transporting some 7.5 million TEU every

Seven crewmembers were rescued after their 100-foot coastal freighter began taking on water and sank Friday approximately 45 miles north off of Cap Haitien,

Stena Line is taking Stena Germanica out of service for 6 weeks in early January for conversion to clean and green methanol fuel. Here's the video from

Damen Shipyards says it has inked a contract with Monaco-based Compagnie Maritime Monégasque SAM for the construction of five Fast Oil Spill Response Vessels

The new chemical tanker built in Japan is the first to use a new type of steel cargo tanks said to be cheaper and stronger that existing

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, according to a new study published by the American Geophysical Union

Crowley Maritime Corp. announced today it will be supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) sourced from the U.S. to an undisclosed Puerto Rico-based

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has determined that there will be only minimal disruption to bunker supply in the Port of Singapore as a

ABP's Port of Southampton has now completed a £40M dredge program which will allow the world's largest ships to access the Southampton Container Terminal with

The International Maritime Bureau has been alerted to a fraud involving a shipping container's weight and size that is atypical of what one might out of a

General Dynamics NASSCO has started construction on the first of three 330,000 barrel capacity product tankers for SEA-Vista LLC, a joint venture between

The Houston Ship Channel celebrated 100 years of service this week with a rededication ceremony of the opening of Houston's deep-water

Press Release – Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has appointed Antonio Carvalho Junior as its new General Manager for Brazil. A former mariner, Carvalho

Industry at Louisiana’s Port Fourchon accounted for over $2.8 billion in sales revenue and over $650 million in household earnings in 2013 in the state

Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled its next generation ship bridge simulator, called K-Sim Navigation, designed with the latest technology for the most realistic

Jensen Maritime and Vigor are getting ready to unveil the design for a new 352-foot catcher processor/factory trawler. The design is the product of