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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) – Deepening Chinese activities in the Arctic region could also pave the way for a

Royal Caribbean Cruises revealed this week that last month’s mishap involving the Oasis of the Seas at the Grand Bahama Shipyard will likely cost

The robotics division of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Canyon Offshore, has entered into an agreement with Louisiana-based Otto Candies for the charter of the

By James Gomez and Jasmina Kuzmanovic (Bloomberg) — Its portholes without glass and covered in rust and seagull guano, the Santiago I tanker sits moored

SINGAPORE, May 2 (Reuters) – Pavilion Energy has performed the first commercial ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in

By Steve Gorman May 1 (Reuters) – The Caribbean nation of St. Lucia has imposed a quarantine on a visiting cruise ship, barring any passengers or crew

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) – The Trump administration unveiled on Thursday its final plan to roll back offshore drilling safety

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – A Republican U.S. senator on Wednesday said President Donald Trump will not waive rules requiring that

An open letter signed by more than 100 shipping companies and environmental organizations is urging the International Maritime Organization to impose mandatory

By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – Enterprise Products Partners LP said on Wednesday volumes at its crude marine terminals jumped to a

The Trump Administration is reversing the Department of Defense’s earlier decision to decommission the 1998-built, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Drewry has urged containership owners planning to scrap older vessels this year to “get a move on”. The number of

By Tim Ross, Jessica Shankleman and Lucca de Paoli (Bloomberg) — The U.K. government canceled contracts for additional shipping in the event of

By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. – Maritime news hubs and trade associations are abuzz with rumors that the Trump Administration is

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is set to meet with Republican senators on Wednesday over a proposal to

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is calling attention to the hazards of confined space entry after a “shocking spike” in the

By Andreas Mortensen COPENHAGEN, April 30 (Reuters) – In the small fishing town of Thyboron on the northwestern coast of Denmark, many fishermen

By David Lague and Benjamin Kang Lim TAIPEI, April 30 (Reuters) – A generation ago, from mid-1995 into early 1996, China lobbed missiles in the

By Noah Browning LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – From algorithms to track “dark” ships smuggling stolen crude oil to an online licensing

By Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan SINGAPORE, April 30 (Reuters) – Some 20 million barrels of Iranian oil sitting on China’s shores in the