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America’s most notorious and controversial ship captain is now an international fugitive. On Wednesday, INTERPOL formally issued a Red Notice for Paul

(Bloomberg) — The world’s oldest shipping company sold its last vessel and is going out of business, according to the liquidator. Stephenson Clarke

In a surprising listing on the U.S. Federal Business Opportunities website, the United States Maritime Administration has indicated that it is commissioning a

Unofficial Olympic Sailing commentary by an Irishman who clearly knows nothing about the

We’ve had a few requests for more tugboat coverage on gCaptain, so here ya go… This video shows the Ocean Wave on builders trials.  She is the

Faced with a petition from ToxicsWatch Alliance, an environmental organization in India, the Supreme Court ruled last week that end-of-life ships containing

Seriously, who doesn’t love a good time-lapse? It’s like you get the full experience of actually being there only you don’t have to move, it

(Bloomberg) — India’s Supreme Court ruled that the ship that spilt millions of gallons of oil in waters off Alaska in 1989 can be recycled in the

By Klaus Luhta, KlausLuhta.com If you are looking for some licentious and lascivious reading relating to shipping, look no further than the Paris MOU list of

UPDATE (7/27/12): Bunga Alpinia Death Toll Rises to Three Original (7/26/12): An explosion and fire, reportedly the result of a lightning strike, engulfed the

By Michael Grey, Contributing Editor to Clay Maitland’s blog It is a bit rich, all this carping criticism from the United Nations about the private

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has made an arrest in connection with a shipyard fire that devastated the Los Angeles-class fast-attack

Update (Tues. 7/24/12): Blaze Contained on MSC Flaminia Update (Fri. 7/21/12): Salvors Board Burning MSC Flaminia Update 1: Firefighting operations on MSC

Update: The vessel fired on was a fishing boat whose owner is from the United Arab Emirates, according to Al Arabiya television. The fisherman who was killed

Representatives from Costa Crociere and the Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi today presented the details of their much anticipated plan to remove the

A new island is forming in the Red Sea. About 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the coast of Yemen, an undersea eruption began in mid-December 2011. Local

UDPATED: January 2012 The data visualization above represents the worlds 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity. WORLD TEU CAPACITY:

(University of Sydney)  In the remote waters of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, scientists have just discovered two sunken islands, almost the size of

By Rob Almeida, gCaptain In case you never noticed, the global maritime and offshore energy industry can be pretty damn old school in how they do things.  

Reaching from Chile up to the Bering Sea, then down again to New Zealand, the fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean are named The Pacific Ring of Fire and