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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday proposed opening nearly all U.S. offshore waters to oil and gas

A large cruise ship broke free from its moorings due to strong winds in Freeport, Bahamas on Wednesday. A video of the cruise ship during the incident was

Few details are available about this video made its way onto social media this week and has since racked up nearly 900K views on Facebook. The video appears to

Another great year in the books here at gCaptain. This year we published thousands of maritime stories and racked up more than 20 million website views.

Captain’s Decisions, Shipping Company’s Poor Safety Oversight Led to Sinking, the NTSB Says The deadliest shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel

Update: Captain’s Decisions, Shipping Company’s Poor Safety Oversight Determined as Probable Cause of EL FARO Sinking By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON,

Dutch marine company Boskalis has completed an impressive dual vessel float-over operation of the Aasta Hansteen topside in Norway. Over the last several of

Update: Captain’s Decisions, Shipping Company’s Poor Safety Oversight Determined as Probable Cause of EL FARO Sinking Here is an animation produced by

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is preparing to unveil as soon as this week an expansive offshore oil plan that would open

Two Finnish pilot boat operators have died after the boat they were on capsized and sank in the Gulf of Finland on Friday. The accident occurred at

LILLE, France, Dec 10 (Reuters) – A P&O ferry with more than 300 people on board which had run aground in Calais harbour in northern France has been

Update: The Coast Guard suspended their search for two people whose vessel sank in the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday. Coast Guard

gCaptain is proud to announce the winners of our second annual award for gCaptain’s Best Nautical Books Of The Year. The year’s

A large containership broke free from its mooring at the Paul W. Conley Container Terminal in Boston on Wednesday and drifted into the main shipping channel

As each year passes in our wake, we’re building quite a collection of holiday gift guides. Last year, we introduced a new category to the family with our

A rather extraordinary sight to behold in Tokyo Bay today as the U.S. Navy’s two damaged destroyers, the USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald, met for

Two Houston Ship Pilots who risked their lives to bring a burning ship to safety and prevented a major maritime disaster on the Houston Ship Channel have been

It’s that time of year when the world falls in love and every song you hear seems to say “Merry Christmas”… it’s also time for gCaptain to publish

The departure of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) from Japan has been delayed after the destroyer was damaged by the

Update – The tug Gulf Cajun towing the previously-detached fuel barge have been safely anchored in Norman Morison Bay, BC for inspections, the