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A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 27-year-old man from an offshore supply vessel 5 miles off Louisiana, Thursday, after losing his foot in an

Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd. (CIMC Raffles) announced today the signing of a newbuild order from Central Shipping Monaco (CSM) to build a pair of Friede

gCaptain’s job board continues to receive an extraordinary amount of attention from the maritime and offshore industry around the world and we’ve

International shipping association BIMCO says that a steady improvement in the global economy has and will continue to bode well for most shipping sectors, but

Norwegian private equity firm, Hitecvision announced today that Houston-based Atlantica Tender Drilling Ltd, one of their many investments in the offshore

Whether you are located in North America, Scandinavia, or all the way on the other side of the world in Antarctica, it’s probably not exactly flip flops

With the so-called Polar Vortex funneling arctic air over a large portion of the U.S., historically low temps have made things very interesting on the inland

Vale S.A. notes today that it has suspended force majeure (FM) on a number of its iron ore sales contracts effective as of January 6th, 2014. FM was declared

A small town banker accused of stealing millions of dollars from investors before faking his own death was also on the hook for a hefty search and rescue bill

A number of amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from

Happy New Year folks! As many of you noticed, we launched the all-new gCaptain store just before Christmas in cooperation with

A laden chemical tanker has suffered what looks like a catastrophic fire following a collision with a car carrier on sea trials near Busan, South

British Virgin Islands-based firm Prosperity Investment Ltd has entered into an agreement today with China State Shipbuilding Corporation to build four, 64,000

Three icebreakers are en route to an area off the coast of Antarctica to help free a vessel carrying 74 people, including a scientific expedition team, which

ClassNK announced today they have been authorized by the Finnish Transport Safety Agency to carry out surveys for Finnish flagged vessels. The agreement allows

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is coordinating a search and rescue for a Russian passenger ship stuck in ice with 74 people on board

The 23,000 DWT multipurpose cargo vessel Reggeborg was successfully launched this week at the Fersus Smit yard in Leer, Germany. The vessel is the second of a

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2013 – While the Navy already has one of the strongest counter-fraud efforts in the

Navis Engineering, the Finnish dynamic positioning and vessel motion control system manufacturer, announced today the completion of work on its latest project

Technip was awarded four contracts by Shell UK, Fairfield Energy, Ithaca Energy and TAQA during 2013. As the longevity of fields represents a key challenge for