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Click on the image for the Hi-Resolution version 12,481 employees, 64 wheel powered hydraulic jack transporters, 1000 foot floating drydocks plus assorted

The satellite presentation of hurricane Irene has continued to improve this afternoon. A large area of deep convection with very cold cloud tops has expanded

Have you ever dreamed of owning a JetPack? Maybe gCaptain’s editors have watched one too many James Bond movies but our answer is yes. Jetpack technology

Hyundai Heavy Industries says it has completed final performance testing on a scale model of a 190,000 DWT icebreaking iron ore carrier that, once completed,

International oil services company Aker Solutions says it is will be creating up to 500 new jobs in the UK over the next year as the company looks to

Image courtesy Frontline LONDON (Dow Jones)–Very Large Crude Carrier shipping rates on the benchmark Middle East to Japan route (Ras Tanura/Chiba)

By Flemming Emil Hansen, Dow Jones & Co, Image by Jeff Shea/NY Times COPENHAGEN—Denmark this week launched its first formal strategy for the Arctic

Phyllis Macay Bob Riggle were murdered by Somali pirates, along with their friends Jean and Scott Adam NORFOLK, Va.—A pair of Somali men were sentenced

Image: Frontline Tankers SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Asia’s freight markets for vessels carrying clean petroleum products may stay bullish in the coming

The fourth edition of the shipping industry’s Best Management Practices for Protection against Somali Based Piracy (BMP4) has been released.  Supported

Three people, including the chief mate, were killed Saturday in a fire that broke out on the passenger ferry M/V ISLAND FASTCRAFT 1, just miles from its

OTTAWA (Dow Jones)–Prime Minister Stephen Harper flies this week to Canada’s High Arctic, where troops are conducting the country’s largest

Photo: Agusta Westland AW139 helicopter RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras,

(Dow Jones) Rescue teams in Brazil on Saturday morning resumed their search for a helicopter with four people on board that made an emergency landing at sea

Illustration courtesy ABS The American Bureau of Shipping has just approved a new concept for renewable energy production for a commercial grid that converts

Image courtesy Reuters HONG KONG (MarketWatch)–The South Korean market led the way for hefty stock losses in Asia Friday, as risk appetite evaporated on

HOUSTON— (Dow Jones) The only thing that surprised the energy industry more than ExxonMobil Corp.’s mammoth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico is

Photo Seanews Turkey A Latvian captain has been placed under arrest after his ship ran aground, allegedly while the man was drunk.  The cargo vessel ALVA was

Puerto Rican-based Epps Shipping Company was sentenced today in federal court to pay a $700,000 fine for violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships

M/V MARIDA MARGUERITE. MarineTraffic.com via EUNAVFOR NORFOLK, Va.—A man accused of negotiating on behalf of Somali pirates in the deadly hijacking of a