Rob Almeida

Dockwise announced today that their full acquisition of Fairstar is nearly complete after they completed the purchase of another 10 percent of Fairstar shares

International seabed-to-surface contractor, Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC), announced today that their Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Simon Crowe, has

Norwegian shipping and seafood company Stolt-Nielsen Ltd. (Oslo Børs: SNI), reported financial results today for their second quarter and first six months

While transiting from Singapore to Christmas Island, HMAS Wollongong was tasked to respond to a vessel in distress which was eventually located approximately

A big congrats to Groupama Sailing Team, the overall winner of the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race, and their French skipper, Franck Cammas.  After crossing nearly

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45095252[/vimeo] Maersk Line shared this story with us this afternoon of Tanawoot Pratoom, a painter on board the container ship Maersk

In their Q1 report, Maersk Line reported a 9 percent decline in freight rates along with a 31 percent increase in bunker rates.  This added up to a billion

Breda, the Netherlands, Dockwise announced today that, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dockwise White Marlin B.V., Dockwise now controls 80.4% of the

During Marine Money Week 2012, gCaptain’s Rob Almeida met up with Kenneth Hvid, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Teekay

DNV released this video the other day showing the technical details of how exactly an LNG-powered ship such as Eidesvik’s Viking Energy is refueled.

**UPDATE** The latest word is that after exhaustive searching and x-rays of the containers on board, no stowaways were found by port authorities today in

In the span of less than a week, a second vessel overloaded with refugees has capsized and sunk in the waters northwest of Australia, 107 miles north of

“Industry experts estimate that the liner operators overall had to accept a loss of some 5-6 billion US dollars in 2011 after profits of around 14

There’s been a bit of buildup on Twitter and on Facebook these past few weeks about today’s “Day of the Seafarer” and we’ve been

In the second day of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s largest shipbuilder, United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), signed a joint

At the 25th annual Marine Money conference in New York this week, Andreas Stubsrud, Head of Research at Pareto Securities, predicted a need for 200 new jack up

I just noticed that Maersk Oil updated their Facebook “cover photo” with this fantastic image this morning. Do you notice anything odd about it

I met up with Pankaj Khanna, Chief Marketing Officer at Ocean Rig UDW at Marine Money in New York this week.   Ocean Rig (ORIG:NASDAQ) owns 9 offshore

In 2001, Sevan Marine established itself in Norway and began the research and development of cylindrically-shaped FPSO designs. It was a revolutionary new

I recently met up with Katharine Palmer, Environmental Manager of Marine Product Development at Lloyd’s Register for an interview.  Here’s what