Rob Almeida

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, 36 people were killed and 601 injured last year while riding personal watercraft. Roughly quarter of those incidents

On 7 August, the 106-meter Russian-flagged cargo ship Sea Champion was disabled due to an engine room fire while operating in the Sea of Japan approximately

Japanese shipping firm K-Line reports today the company has dug themselves out of a loss-making situation over the past quarter in their containership business

The Jumbo Kinetic “heavy lifter” left Croatia’s Brodosplit shipyard today enroute to Viktor Lenac shipyard where the twin 1,500 ton cranes

The Statoil-contracted rig Transocean Spitsbergen has made a gas discovery while drilling at production license 614 approximately 300 kilometers north of

Wärtsilä signed their second design contract today with Tidewater subsidiary Troms Offshore Supply for their new VS 4530 series of arctic multi-purpose

Maersk Drilling took delivery today of their second XL Enhanced harsh environment jack-up rig from Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. This rig and its sister

Spain’s police, La Guardia Civil, seized 127 kilos of cocaine onboard the Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano while at port in Cadiz over the

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (YZJ) reports today record earnings of RMB 1.24 billion in their second quarter. As the third largest shipyard in China by market

Shanghai-headquartered Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has announced their entry into the Mexican offshore market today with the signing of a three-ship OSV

DOF’s subsidiary Norskan Offshore Ltda. has been awarded a 4 year contract with Petrobras for the platform supply vessel Skandi Yare. The new contract

EMAS AMC, the subsea services arm of offshore contractor Ezra Holdings Inc. has won upwards of $110 million in new contracts according to a statement today by

Houston-headquartered Northern Offshore, Ltd. (Oslo: NOF.OL) announced at the end of July it had secured a 2 ½ year contract with Rosneft, in conjunction with

Wärtsilä’s ship design group has been selected to design a new ferry as part of the ‘Midway Alignment of the Bothnian Corridor’ project.

TUI Cruises announced today the order for two new ships from STX Europe’s shipyard in Turku, Finland. The ships will be sister vessels of two other ships

Matz Maersk, the ninth 18,270 TEU containership built for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group made its maiden voyage port call to Bremerhaven on 27 July and

Rosatom, Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation announced last week that its subsidiary Rusatom Overseas signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNNC

In 1959, Dutch lifeboat manufacturer Verhoef introduced the world’s first freefall lifeboat. Looking a bit like a submarine and made of aluminum, it was

Beleaguered Chinese shipyard Rongsheng Heavy Industries issued a profit warning today to shareholders that the company is “expected to incur a

Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure’s Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee,