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OW Tanker, a unit of bankrupt OW Bunker and owner of its marine fuel supply ships, has been taken over by a newly-created company, the fleet manager told

HERZLIYA, Israel, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Some surprising traffic passes through the Suez Canal each day. Beneath the decks of the giant cargo ships that flow

The shipping sector will for the first time have to monitor its carbon emissions under a law agreed by the European Union on Wednesday, intended as a step

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed that his SpaceX space transport company is currently developing an "autonomous spaceport drone ship" that will act

The Port of Long Beach is set to open a vacant pier to store empty containers amid unprecedented congestion at the nation's second busiest container port.

APM Terminals BV, the port operator owned by AP Moeller-Maersk A/S, wants to buy more ports in Turkey, a market where container volumes are growing twice as

Greece has sent a frigate to rescue a container ship believed to carrying hundreds of undocumented migrants and in distress off its southern island of Crete,

Top ship broker Clarkson is seeking to acquire Norwegian brokerage and investment bank RS Platou for 281.2 million pounds ($441 million) in a deal that would

Indonesian shipper Meratus Line has been flagged by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) due to repeated compliance issues related to one of its

Iron ore traded below $70 for the first time in five years as rising low-cost supplies by the world’s top miners widen a global glut amid slowing demand from

Frontline, once the world's biggest crude oil tanker company, reported a bigger than expected third-quarter loss on Tuesday and said it is still considering

A cargo ship struck a lock gate in a chamber of the Kiel Canal in Germany on Monday, causing damage so severe that the gate will need to be replaced

After at least 4 years under construction and decades of planning, the giant Pieter Schelte catamaran has set sail from the shipyard in South Korea for

Egypt is trying to renegotiate an extension of an agreement worth $1.5 billion with Suez Canal Container Terminal which has a concession to run a port near the

Nordic LNG provider Skangass signed a two year agreement with ENI today for the supply LNG from the Fluxys terminal in Zeebrugge to Skangass’ newly opened

By Bryan Abell, Six Maritime Piracy in the Malacca Straits is as old as the trade routes that snake between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.  Mariners have

By Jakob Pinkster The new book “Ship Handling” by Hervé Baudu is an expanded English language version of the award winning (2012 French Maritime Society

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

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed on to work with Carnival Cruise Lines and China State Shipbuilding Corporation in exploring the possibility of joint

Viva Energy Australia, a joint venture between energy trader Vitol and Royal Dutch Shell says they will be handing the product tanker Tandara Spirit back to