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The four suspected pirates were arrested during one of only two successful operations against a sharp rise in pirate attacks this year - and Nigerian

SYDNEY, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Australian mining mogul Clive Palmer says his oil and gas business has identified what could be one of the world’s

Chilean shipper Compania Sud Americana de Vapores on Tuesday kicked off a share offering, which it hopes will raise about $330 million -- an amount short of

Eight people were injured, one of them seriously, after an explosion and fire struck a U.S. Navy ammunitions depot near the New Jersey shore on Tuesday, Navy

DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco and

The Nigerian navy killed 12 pirates in a gun battle as they tried to flee from a fuel tanker they hijacked off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea last week, the

By Balazs Koranyi and Michael Shields OSLO/VIENNA, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Norway’s Statoil sold stakes in North Sea oil fields to Austria’s OMV

By Rolando Ng CORDOVA, Philippines, Aug 19 (Reuters) – The central Philippine province of Cebu, famous among divers around the world for its clear waters

By Rolando Ng TALISAY, Philippines, Aug 18 (Reuters) – As rescuers plucked more bodies from the sea after a Philippine ferry and a cargo ship collided

Worsening weather and sea conditions on Saturday forced the Philippines to suspend a search for survivors of a ferry disaster that killed at least 32 people

U.S. Harbor Maintenance Tax would be converted into a fee on goods brought into the United States by rail and highway from Canada and Mexico under legislation

By Gerard Wynn LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – The world’s oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of global warming since the mid-20th century,

Energy-rich Turkmenistan on Thursday launched a $2 billion project to build a new port on the Caspian Sea designed to boost

UPDATE: According to tracking data gathered by Windward Maritime Analytics Services Company, the Desh Shanti is underway again and steaming toward the Strait

OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Seadrill, the world’s biggest gas and oil rig company by market capitalisation, is to sell part of its North Atlantic

BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) said it had won final government approval to build China’s first floating

ABUJA, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Gunmen have released a fuel tanker which was hijacked off the coast of Nigeria, security sources and the vessel’s manager

India's navy chief held out little hope for survivors on a submarine after some of its weapons detonated accidentally and fire swept through it. The likely

NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Indian Oil Corp will start work on its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Ennore in the east coast by the end

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell 5 points on Monday to its lowest since June