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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Canada’s Arctic Fleet Expansion Needs More Funds, Watchdog Says
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Canada’s Arctic Fleet Expansion Needs More Funds, Watchdog Says

Canada will fail to deliver a proposed fleet of six to eight Arctic patrol ships unless it spends significantly more than the C$2.8 billion ($2.51 billion)

October 28, 2014
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BG Group’s Profit Fall Bigger-Than-Expected

Britain's third-biggest energy company BG Group reported a worse-than-expected 26 percent fall in third-quarter operating profit on the back of a continued

October 28, 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014
High Arctic Costs Deter Business Despite Thaw
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High Arctic Costs Deter Business Despite Thaw

Despite high hopes for Arctic business from mining to shipping as the ice melts rapidly and temperatures rise twice as fast as the global average, few firms

October 27, 2014
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Pirates Launch Deadly Niger Delta Attacks
Piracy

Pirates Launch Deadly Niger Delta Attacks

Pirates have launched a spate of attacks in the creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region since last Thursday, killing three policemen and abducting

October 27, 2014
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Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Sewol Captain
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Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Sewol Captain

South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people, most of them school

October 27, 2014
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Sunday, October 26, 2014
Supertanker Arrives With Venezuela’s First Imported Crude Oil
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Supertanker Arrives With Venezuela’s First Imported Crude Oil

Oil tanker Carabobo, bringing Venezuela's first import of crude oil, arrived late on Saturday at the Jose port, where it is scheduled to unload up to 2 million

October 26, 2014
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Friday, October 24, 2014
UASC SCHUAIBA, containership
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UASC Targets Expansion to Beat Container Market Blues

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is on a major expansion drive, investing more than $2 billion in bigger ships and forming alliances with peers to boost

October 24, 2014
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Asia-Europe Freight Rates Fall
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Asia-Europe Freight Rates Fall

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe continued to fall for the sixth consecutive

October 24, 2014
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Somalia’s Mogadishu Port In For Major Facelift With Turkish Help
Ports

Somalia’s Mogadishu Port In For Major Facelift With Turkish Help

The Somali government's grand vision for Mogadishu port under its new Turkish managers sees modern container ships replacing wooden dhows, new cranes easing

October 23, 2014
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BG Group Seeks Revival of Egyptian LNG Business

British energy company BG Group is in talks with BP to link their two gas developments off Egypt's coast, as part of BG's drive to breathe life into its

October 23, 2014
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Venezuela Books VLCC to Import Second Algerian Crude Shipment
Shipping News

Venezuela Books VLCC to Import Second Algerian Crude Shipment

Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has hired a supertanker to load a second 2 million-barrel cargo of Algerian crude, according to preliminary tanker

October 22, 2014
Total Views: 39

U.S. Needs New Heavy Icebreaker to “Assure Access” to the Arctic
Defense

U.S. Needs New Heavy Icebreaker to “Assure Access” to the Arctic

The United States needs billions of dollars of new equipment including ice-breaking ships, better satellite service and fiber-optic networks as it prepares

October 22, 2014
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Weak Oil Threatens U.S. LNG Exports, Leaving Asian Buyers Stranded
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Weak Oil Threatens U.S. LNG Exports, Leaving Asian Buyers Stranded

By Oleg Vukmanovic MILAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Plunging global oil prices may turn hopes for cheap liquefied natural gas supplies from the United States

October 21, 2014
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Profit Falls at Singaporean Rig Builder

"We believe that with the depleting (oil) reserves and aging (rig) fleet, the industry fundamentals are still strong," said Chief Executive Loh Chin Hua in a

October 21, 2014
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Petrobras Extends Ultra Deepwater Ocean Rig Contracts
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Petrobras Extends Ultra Deepwater Ocean Rig Contracts

Cyprus-based Ocean Rig UDW Inc said on Monday that it signed a $1.1 billion three-year contract with Brazil's state-run oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, to

October 20, 2014
Total Views: 183

Texas Lab Worker Isolated On Carnival Cruise Tests Negative for Ebola
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Texas Lab Worker Isolated On Carnival Cruise Tests Negative for Ebola

A Dallas hospital lab worker who spent much of a cruise holiday in isolation after possible exposure to Ebola, has tested negative for the disease, Carnival

October 20, 2014
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Sweden Says Credible Reports of Foreign Submarine In Its Waters
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Sweden Says Credible Reports of Foreign Submarine In Its Waters

Sweden released on Sunday a grainy photo of a mysterious vessel in Stockholm's archipelago, as the military hunted for a foreign submarine or divers in the

October 19, 2014
Total Views: 58

Friday, October 17, 2014
Gonzalo Makes Landfall in Bermuda As Category 2 Hurricane
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Gonzalo Makes Landfall in Bermuda As Category 2 Hurricane

Hurricane Gonzalo scored a direct hit on Bermuda on Friday evening, knocking out most of the electricity there as it lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with

October 17, 2014
Total Views: 32

Venezuela Buys Two Russian Crude Cargoes for Curacao Refinery -Sources
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Venezuela Buys Two Russian Crude Cargoes for Curacao Refinery -Sources

Venezuela's PDVSA bought two cargoes of Russian Urals light crude from a unit of Petrochina to be delivered starting in November at the Isla refinery in

October 17, 2014
Total Views: 36

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Maersk Line to Raise Freight Rates by Over 100 Percent

Maersk Line plans to raise freight rates sharply on main routes from ports in Asia to ports in northern

October 17, 2014
Total Views: 56