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Middletown, RI – June 28, 2012 – Following extensive onboard tests of maritime communications systems, Tokyo-based Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line)

Clay Maitland, managing partner of International Registries LLC (which administers the Marshall Islands ship registry, the world’s third largest),

Saudi Aramco and the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announced Wednesday that they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding

Weekly Incidents by Region: June 21-27 INDIAN OCEAN–EAST AFRICA: YEMEN: Bulk Carrier was fired upon on 27 June at 14:22 N – 054:38 E 110 nm North

ABB announced Thursday that it has recently won an order worth $80 million from Samsung Heavy Industries to supply energy efficient drives, motors and

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Wednesday it can start drilling appraisal wells off the coast of French Guiana after it received the necessary government

Smit Lamnalco said Thursday that it has secured a 10-year marine support and towage contract covering ExxonMobil-led LNG export terminal operations in Papua

Keppel Offshore & Marine’s yards have secured two contracts worth a total of about US$70 million for work in the company’s U.S. and Azerbaijan

As gCaptain report yesterday, Shell’s Kulluk and Noble Discoverer rigs set sail for the Arctic on Wednesday from Vigor Industrial’s Seattle

Nothing defines shipping’s core competence better than “risk”. It’s shipping’s gift to the rest of the business world. By Ryan

Norway’s Atlantic Offshore said Wednesday that it has been awarded a four-year service contract with French energy major Total for the use of a new

NEW YORK–Even energy titan Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) is showing signs of strain from low natural gas prices. On Wednesday Exxon Chief Executive Rex

India’s Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd. has signed a contract to sell “Jag Viraj”, a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) carrier. The 1991-built

ATHENS–Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has accepted the resignation of Deputy Merchant Marine Minister Giorgos Vernikos, the prime minister’s

The International Maritime Oranization yesterday asked us to celebrate the Day of The Seafarer by honoring the theme, “it came by sea, I can’t live

On Friday, 22 June 2012, Mr. Joseph Rella – Austal USA President and Chief Operating Officer resigned and the Board of Directors accepted his

The latest innovation in ORBIT’s expanding line of next‐generation VSAT portfolio, OrSat™300 is an inherently flexible maritime stabilized

Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) said Monday it has exercised one of it’s two options for a DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship, citing rising customer demand and

– by Flagship Management During the course of our daily business activities we are exposed to salary and compensation data from both the employer and

(Dow Jones) Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA (STO.OS) Tuesday said it was closing another four oil platforms due a strike by offshore workers that started