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By Eric Uhlfelder, Barron’s Cargo shippers are in the tank, thanks to slowing global economic growth and oversupplies of dry-bulk ships, which transport

Life is good when you can tranport over 100,000 metric tons. Heavy lift operator Dockwise today announced that its new-build “Type-0” super vessel,

HOUSTON —The U.S. government broke precedent by issuing citations to contractors Halliburton Co. and Transocean Ltd. in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcZSLPG3t44 Here’s a video of M/V Rena’s owner, Diamantis Manos of Costamare Shipping Company S.A., delivering a

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–Mike Petters keeps a well-thumbed volume of naval history handy on his desk. One of its lessons, he says, is that maintaining a fleet

Summary of Weekly Incidents By Region: 6 – 12 OCTOBER 2011 – Provided by U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence ECUADOR: Fifteen robbers armed with guns

By Michael Grey, ClayMaitland.com “It will never work because there is no infrastructure!” I wonder how many times these words, or their

By Tennille Tracy, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The U.S. has decided to allow BP PLC to bid on new oil-drilling leases that go up for sale in the

TAURANGA, New Zealand (Dow Jones)–Several beaches on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island were closed to the public from Thursday and

LONDON—BP PLC Thursday announced it would make its highest-ever annual investment in the U.K., despite a steep tax increase on crude production enacted

Insiders tell how pirates are destroying the system that allows them to flourish.  By Robert Young Pelton, Somalia Report Somalia Report has identified a

By Tennille Tracy, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The prospect that contractors for BP PLC could be fined by the government over the Deepwater

COPENHAGEN—Danish industrial conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S said Wednesday it has reached a deal to sell its liquefied-natural-gas transport unit

WELLINGTON—A cargo vessel carrying oil and other substances that is stranded off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island is continuing to

WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)–The captain of the stricken cargo ship Rena has been arrested, as 70 containers fell from the heavily listing boat into the ocean

BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China suspended shipping along Southeast Asia’s Mekong River on Monday after attacks on Chinese cargo vessels left

By Lucy Craymer And Rebecca Howard, Wall Street Journal WELLINGTON—Oil spilling from a cargo vessel stranded off the east coast of New Zealand’s

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday the wreckage of Transocean Ltd.’s (RIG) Deepwater Horizon rig, which sank last year,

Odyssey Marine Exploration has discovered another shipwrecked British vessel loaded with a shipment of silver, only 100 miles from a recent discovery confirmed

The first international agreement written exclusively for the Arctic region was signed at the ministerial meeting in Nuuk, May 12 2011. The agreement, which