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By Ira Breskin in Oslo, Norway – Executives from maritime industry service providers interviewed at the Nor-Shipping conference in Oslo last week

Seven people were injured Saturday after a 19th-century wooden schooner collided with a containership on the Elbe River in Germany. German fire officials

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – It seems the ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) that have become the ‘new normal’ on the Asia-Europe tradelane

By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST, June 10 (Reuters) – Hungarian salvage crews prepared on Monday to raise the wreck of a pleasure boat that capsized on the

The U.S. Coast Guard has published a final rule amending the requirements for renewal of a radar observer endorsement, making refresher courses no longer

The rapid growth in installed LNG tank capacity points to a potential boom in LNG for larger vessels over the coming years and could mark the start of a

An offshore supply vessel collided with Equinor’s Statfjord A platform in the North Sea on Friday, forcing the evacuation of the platform but no injuries

By David Wainer (Bloomberg) — An investigation into a spate of attacks on oil tankers in the Middle East last month has concluded that a “state

By Katya Golubkova and Gleb Stolyarov ST PETERSBURG, June 7 (Reuters) – DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, wants to run ports

By Andrew Osborn and Tim Kelly MOSCOW/TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters) – Russia and the United States blamed each other for a near collision between their

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Offshore oil and gas bankers in Oslo are warning that the industry is far from out of the woods as a recovery is

By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, June 6 (Reuters) – The captain of the Viking Sigyn cruise liner that collided with a pleasure boat on the River Danube in

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing hasn’t choked off the flow of American oil to China. At least six

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shipping must pay the price today for tomorrow’s sustainability as a push to cleaner supply chains is seeing

By Axel Bugge LISBON, June 6 (Reuters) – The amount of cocaine seized by authorities in Europe doubled in 2017 to reach a record 140 tonnes in a strong

Norwegian shipbuilding group Ulstein has unveiled a concept design for a roll-on/roll-off passenger vessel featuring its trademark X-Box hull design. The

DUBAI, June 6 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates will present to U.N. Security Council members on Thursday the results of an investigation into attacks

Update: Viking Cruises Says Viking Sigyn Captain Was Not Captain in Dutch Accident By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, June 6 (Reuters) – The captain of a cruise

By Manuel Baigorri and Cathy Chan (Bloomberg) — Hahn & Co. is considering options for H-Line Shipping Co. including a partial or full sale of the

Former Euronav CEO Paddy Rodgers has been appointed to the position of Director at the Royal Museums Greenwich in England, succeeding Kevin Fewster.