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The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing to coordinate search efforts for a missing man on Monday after an explosion on an oil platform in Lake Pontchartrain near

New Orleans-based oil services company Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) announced today that Jeffrey Platt has decided to retire from his roles as

A pretty scary situation in the southern England last Friday as a tanker pulled up an old test torpedo when it raised its anchor in Portland. A diving unit

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of gCaptain. By Stephen Mihm (Bloomberg View) — Repealing the so-called Jones Act, which is slowing

By Clodagh Kilcoyne LAHINCH, Ireland, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Three people died as Tropical Storm Ophelia battered Ireland’s southern coast on

A salvage team and other response crews are continuing efforts to remove the 79-foot fishing vessel Pacific Paradise which ran aground last Tuesday off

The U.S. Coast Guard has reported that the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, Rhode Island’s official sail training ship, lost power and hit multiple boats before

One person is missing and six others have been injured after an explosion on an oil platform in Lake Pontchartrain near Kenner, Louisiana, Sunday evening, the

The U.S. Coast Guard and other federal agencies are responding to a crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said Saturday its Sector New

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to North Europe slumped below $700 per teu this week, losing a further 3.9% in

By Kelly Gilblom, Peter Flanagan and Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Category 2 Hurricane Ophelia is threatening everything from farms to a

The Norwegian offshore supply vessel Viking Princess has become the first vessel of its kind to have one of its main engines replaced with battery power.

Eleven crew members of a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier are missing after their ship sank Friday off the coast of Philippines in what appears to be a

The following is a message from Rear Adm. Michael Alfultis, president of SUNY Maritime: Dear Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students, Parents, and Friends of Maritime

Here’s an awesome video showing a pilot transfer from a cruise ship in the Cape Cod Canal. According to the uploader… The Cruise Ship

A salvage team is working to refloat a 79-foot commercial fishing vessel from a reef near Honolulu, Hawaii after the vessel grounded there late Tuesday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIs6iobSEh4 A video posted to Youtube shows the moment two bulk carriers collided at an anchorage on the Amazon River in

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Owners of smaller containerships, with limited exposure to the volatile deepsea east-west trades, are enjoying increases

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will nominate Kirstjen Nielsen, who as top aide to his White House chief of

An experienced ship pilot with the Port of London Authority had been drinking before he fell to his death during a pilot transfer on the River Thames last