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By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilding group, has announced a share swap deal worth

It’s been an active beginning to 2019 in terms of maritime casualties.  The phone at the Panama Marine Accident Investigation Department was likely

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has formally declared general average on its fire-stricken Yantian Express. A fire broke out in a

We’re getting our first good look at damage to the Hapag-Lloyd ship Yantian Express after a container fire broke out on January 3 during a trip across

By Michael Carr – U.S. Army Maritime capabilities will be radically reduced this year as the service deactivates and divests itself of numerous vessels,

Maersk Line has confirmed plans to rebuild the Maersk Honam in South Korea. In an emailed statement on Monday, Maersk revealed that a portion of the vessel

By Fergus Jensen JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) – An undersea cable and pipe-laying ship, the Vanuatu-flagged MV Star Centurion, capsized in the

By Alister Doyle OSLO, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented

The investigation into the collision involving a roll-on/roll-off vessel and a containership in the Mediterranean Sea last October identified human errors on a

One person has died and two others are missing after a tanker caught fire in Hong Kong waters off Lamma Island. The fire on board the Vietnamese-flagged Aulac

By Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired) – Today, with the government shutdown in its third week, it is beyond troubling that Coast Guard men

An unknown quantity of bunker fuel was spilled at the Port of Hong Kong on Sunday during bunkering operations on a Maersk ship at berth, A.P. Moller Maersk

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Sunday it has killed a militant in Yemen believed to be one of the planners of a deadly bombing

The crew of the containership Yantian Express has been evacuated as the container fire continues to burn on board the ship in the North Atlantica, Hapag-Lloyd

Authorities in Germany and the Netherlands are continuing to respond to the loss of an estimated 270 containers from the mega containership MSC ZOE in the

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the active search for one remaining unaccounted for crewmember of the Sincerity Ace. Good Samaritans from four merchant

Update (1/3/2019): MSC ZOE Docks in Germany as Search for Containers Continues The Dutch Coastguard has issued a navigational warning after an ultra-large

By Andrew MacAskill and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s transport minister has defended awarding a 14 million-pound ($18 million)

Update (1/2/2019): AIS Animation Shows Commercial Response The U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and two merchant vessels are continuing searching for two missing crew

Shell Australia announced this week it has opened the wells at its massive Prelude FLNG facility located off Western Australia. The Floating Liquefied Natural