Rob Almeida

With Petrobras, and thus Brazil, standing to lose $3 billion or more in lost revenues due to missed oil and gas production targets,  the head of

With a full cargo of coal destined for Karachi, Pakistan, the Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier Sea Moon was about 140 miles southwest of Bermuda when an

There are a few headlines going around today in some major publications and by the Associated Press claiming that China has announced plans to build 50

China’s Rongsheng Heavy Industries announced today the delivery of a pair of 380,000 DWT Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOCs); one to Brazilian ore giant

d’Amico International Shipping S.A. (Borsa Italiana: DIS), has announced that its subsidiary d’Amico Tankers Ltd has signed a $66 million contract

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today the receipt of a $296 million contract modification, under a previously

Following dismal news from the Brazilian Federal Court yesterday, offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) received an

In response to our article this week calling out 7 ships that were detained by the MCA, Captain Bjorn Hojgaard, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong-based

Amid the throngs of maritime professionals from around the world and the huge expanse of the 2012 SMM Hamburg conference, I sat down with the American Bureau

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) announced today that at approximately noon Rio De Janeiro time (11 a.m., ET), the federal court in Rio de Janeiro

Teekay’s Market Analyst Christian Waldegrave gives his September 2012 conventional tanker market update while attending the Jefferies Conference in New

Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today that it has signed a 3-year contract, at a day rate of $584,000, for the Atwood Advantage, a DNV-classed,

OSLO — DNV announced today that they have been awarded the contract to class the Petronas LNG FPSO (FLNG). The unit will be built by DSME in Korea and

While at the SMM Hamburg conference a few weeks ago, I met up with Sigurd Jenssen, Director, EGC at Wärtsilä Environmental Solutions Tell me a bit about

*UPDATE* We just got word from Liberty Maritime that we definitely got some bad info, and it’s nowhere near as clear cut as our inital report this

On Monday, Russian freight forwarder Sovfracht-Sovmortrans announced the signing of an agency agreement under which they were formally appointed sales agent

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that seven foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during August 2012 after failing

MV Star Norita, a 58,000 DWT supramax bulk carrier, was named and delivered today by Chinese shipbuilder,  Tsuneishi (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding to its owner,

One of the biggest issues facing ship owners these days is what do to about the IMO emissions regulations, particularly those referring to sulfur oxides (SOx),

In what initially appears to have been caused by a navigational error, an Aframax tanker owned by Vancouver-based Teekay Tankers, has run aground off the coast