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Check out this photo from January 29th in the westernmost North Sea as a Hurricane Force low was rapidly developing in the northeast Atlantic, producing

Finnish tugboat Artemis swoops in to save MS Nordlandia from hitting a docked ship in Helsinki during a windy weather, according to the video

MADRID, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced the captain of the Prestige oil tanker, which sank off Spain’s northwestern coast

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — A U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship is sidelined in port in Singapore because of damage to gears that propel the vessel,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Analysts agree there is no recovery in sight for the beleaguered containership charter market, which is facing its

On December 5, 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank in the North Sea with more than 1,400 cars on board after a colliding with a containership near the

A marine salvage legend well known for his role in raising the Costa Concordia has past away following a freak snowboarding accident in Utah. gCaptain has

New photos and video from the French Navy shows the emergency towing vessel Abeille Bourbon underway in heavy seas off Brittany, France. These photos were

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their

Update (Jan 14) – The Baltic Dry Index fell for a seventh straight day Thursday, down 11 points, or 2.79 percent, at 383 points. The capesize, panamax

Update (Jan 14) – The intense and dangerous North Pacific storm continues to pack winds to 90 knots and wave heights to 50 feet (15.2 meters) this

By Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — Somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico right now, the Energy Atlantic is headed for Louisiana to collect an historic cargo:

Some spectator video shows the Greek freighter Olga M bang its way through the old Evripos Bridge in Chalcis, Greece. According to reports, neither

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment says it has received type approval for its record setting 81-meter evacuation chute developed in response to the increasingly

Video from Maine Imaging Photography showing the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt (DDG-1000) entering Portland Harbor following sea trials in December. The Zumwalt is

The first of two new Service Operation Vessels (SOV) featuring the new Ulstein X-Stern arrived at the Ulstein Verft shipyard in Ulsteinvik, Norway after making

By Kyunghee Park and Jonathan Burgos (Bloomberg) — For many Asian shipyards, 2015 was a brutal year. This year could be even worse. With oil prices

The National Transportation Safety Board has released the first photos and video of the wreckage of the sunken El Faro as part of its investigation into the

We saw some big stories in the maritime and offshore industries in 2015. Here at gCaptain, we set a new annual record for visitor traffic as we racked up

By Manisha Jha (Bloomberg) — The most destructive oil crash in a generation is giving ship owners a billion-dollar windfall. With the Organization of