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Update 1: The Unified Command has determined that there is no existing threat to the Port of Charleston after scanning four containers where the

By Laura Hurst and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — If a single ship can capture the current state of the global oil, it’s the supertanker Saiq, floating idly

The tow-out of the platform destined for the Hebron Field located off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador has commenced, partners in the project have

By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – The escalating diplomatic conflict between Qatar and several of its Middle East neighbors has roiled the

The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of its first next generation aircraft carrier, the future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), from Huntington Ingalls

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released a 1.4 billion pixel map of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico that is up to 50 times more detailed than any

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for the missing crew member of the Crosby Commander tugboat, which sank Monday in the Gulf of Mexico off

By Jan Schwartz HAMBURG, Germany, June 1 (Reuters) – German shipping firm Rickmers filed for insolvency on Thursday, a day after its largest lender HSH

FRANKFURT, May 31 (Reuters) – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd confirmed on Wednesday that it is looking to cut up to 12 percent of its almost 11,000

The year’s notable nautical fiction and nonfiction books of 2016-17 as selected by gCaptain’s editors. This list represents books we

Update Tuesday, 0950 CDT, 31 May 2017: We just got off the phone with U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District office in New Orleans and we were told there are

The Master of a containership is reported to have committed suicide aboard his ship during a recent voyage from New York and Tilbury, England. The

By Catherine Traywick and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The White House plan to trim the national debt includes selling off half of the nation’s

Some major damage at the port of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic after a ferry struck a pier while mooring on Thursday. Video shows the moment the

The missing captain of a Singapore-flagged car carrier has been found in critical condition but alive after apparently falling overboard from his ship off

Less than two months after the MOL Triumph earned the title of the world’s largest containership by carrying capacity as the first ship to cross the

By Crispian Balmer ROME, May 12 (Reuters) – The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday by

New Orleans-based oil services company Tidewater Inc. has entered into a prepackaged restructuring agreement with certain lenders that will require the

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency announced Wednesday it is withdrawing its notice of proposed modification and revocation of letter

Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara and maritime technology firm Kongsberg Gruppe are teaming up to build what they say will be the world’s first