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gCaptain sources report this afternoon that the M/V Liberty Grace, 50,601 dwt US-flagged bulk carrier vessel with 22 personnel on board, including two U.S.

By Lieutenant (junior grade) Joe DiRenzo IV, U.S. Coast Guard U.S. maritime services should seriously consider liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative

A fire believed to have originated in a container has left the Hansa Brandenburg containership burning and adrift in the Indian Ocean near the island of

Quick-thinking tug and barge crew use backhoe to extinguish top-floor blaze.

Panama detained a North Korean-flagged ship from Cuba as it headed to the Panama Canal and said it was hiding weapons in brown sugar containers, sparking a

The world's largest ship, the MV Mærsk McKinney-Møller, officially entered service today after commencing its maiden voyage in Busan, South Korea,

By Michael Grey I may have been taken to task for blaming the cargo (weights) for breaking the MOL Comfort in half, but I am probably on a safer

6 days ago, the hijacked ship MV Albedo sank off Somalia.  Reports at the time indicated that both hostages and captors had drowned in the sinking.  Only an

The mighty Emma Maersk is ready to return to service nearly 6 months after a damaged stern thruster caused her to take on water and lose power in the Suez

One person is believed to have been killed after returning to a historic Norwegian sailboat which sank Thursday in the Baltic Sea off Sweden during a

A collection of photos from the ongoing MOL Comfort incident.

Update: A statement from Talos Energy late Tuesday said that during operations yesterday to permanently plug and abandon their non-producing Ship Shoal 225 B-2

The Malaysian-flagged MV Albedo, hijacked by Somali pirates in 2010 and held at an anchorage close to the Somali Coast, has sunk in rough seas, the European

The manslaughter trial of the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which capsized off Italy's coast last year killing 32 people, began on Tuesday and

UPDATE (10 JUL): MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk In a chat with the Indian Coast Guard this morning, they note that the the fire on board the fore section

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) reports today that the a fire has broken out on the rear end of the fore part of the vessel at around 0030UTC (0930 JST) on July

While attempting to leave port on Saturday, the bulk carrier Cyprus Cement encountered some sort of propulsion issue and ends up tearing through a Norwegian

Efforts are underway in Greece to separate two cargo ships that collided in the Aegean Sea on July

At four-hundred metres long, 59 metres wide and 73 metres high, the Triple-E series of containerships will be the world’s largest, and one of the most

UPDATE (10 JUL): MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk UPDATE 3 July: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that the towing line has been reconnected to the