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The future of marine and offshore navigation may not be as awesome as flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet, but Rolls-Royce did a really good job at making it look

The U.S. Navy has achieved a historic milestone with a cutting-edge new laser weapon system that can destroy targets for less than $1 per

An Austrian yacht design firm has unveiled a new superyacht concept for the uber rich that is based on the size and shape of a modern suezmax oil tanker.

This article was written by the American maritime Partnership in response to a recent discussion on the Jones Act at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative

Senator John McCain said a more than 90-year-old law that requires ships servicing coastal businesses to be built and mostly staffed by U.S. crews will be

An amazing video from Sailing World shows the moment the Team Vestas Wind crashed their 65-foot racing yacht into a reef in the middle of the Indian Ocean

Apart from a Howard Miller brass chronometer given to us as a gift, the gCaptain office is mostly devoid of nautical trinkets (but you will find us wearing

Vessel traffic on the Florida's Intracoastal Waterway is restricted Wednesday after a span of a draw bridge closed onto a the deck of a luxury yacht near

Early last month, the SS John W. Brown, one of two remaining fully operational WWII Liberty Ships, arrived at the Colonna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, VA

Update: Team Vestas Wind’s VOR 65 Aground [PHOTO] UPDATE: 0300 UTC 30 Nov Volvo Ocean Race Control has had it confirmed that the Team Vestas Wind crew

One sailor was killed and two others were seriously injured Friday in an apparent lifeboat accident while off the coast of Germany near the Elbe

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted historic legislation for the improved safety of ships operating in the polar regions and their

With a capacity to carry 19,000 TEUs, the recently named MV CSCL Globe is the world’s largest containership by cargo capacity. But that’s not all

A year after being detained by Russian authorities, Greenpeace’s vessel Arctic Sunrise is once again under the control of government authorities.  This

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The chief engineer of a NYK Line car carrier has pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, to obstruction of justice and violating the Act to

Early Saturday morning, a source tells gCaptain the offshore supply vessel Odyssea Courage collided with the semi-submersible well intervention rig Q4000,

In a bold move of aggression on Saturday morning, Spanish Navy rigid-hulled inflatable boats repeatedly slammed into Greenpeace protesters off the Canary

The U.S. Navy has deployed on a command ship in the Persian Gulf its first laser weapon capable of destroying a

On December 3, 2010, the 738-foot long MV Golden Seas, carrying a cargo of Canola seed and with an estimated 450,000 gallons of intermediate fuel oil, 11,700