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Salvors continue to work on refloating a Euronav very large crude carrier (VLCC) which ran aground in soft mud last week in the Java Sea. Euronav reports that

MOSCOW, April 19 (Reuters) – A cargo ship heading from Russia to Turkey sunk off the coast of Crimea early on Wednesday morning and 11 of the crew are

By Justin Sink and David Tweed (Bloomberg) — Vice President Mike Pence issued a fresh warning to North Korea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) – When U.S. President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an “armada” as a

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Congress should consider delaying an upcoming U.S. Navy request for as much as $9 billion to start work on 12

The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), representing interests of the domestic maritime industry, has submitted comments strongly in support of the recent

HAMBURG, April 18 (Reuters) – Water levels on the Rhine and Danube in Germany remain low despite recent rain and freight vessels cannot sail fully loaded

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. joined Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in backing commodities, saying it’s the season to have faith in raw

By Marianna Parraga and Mircely Guanipa HOUSTON/PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela, April 18 (Reuters) – In the scorching heat of the Caribbean Sea, workers in scuba

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, April 18 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd has won near unanimous agreement from

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply the engines and propulsion machinery for the first offshore construction vessel to be

The giant floating production, storage and offloading unit for Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles development project in the North Sea has reached Rotterdam

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, April 17 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd on Monday won near unanimous approval

Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) says it has received notice from ConocoPhillips about its intention to enter into a contract for a

By Hashem Kalantari (Bloomberg) — Iran, holder of the world’s biggest natural gas reserves, boosted output by inaugurating six projects at the

By Jung Park and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s largest shipbuilder, won a reprieve

Today, April 14, 2017, marks exactly 105 years since the infamous RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic,

A crew member of a tugboat operating in New York Harbor lost part of his arm in an unfortunate line-handling accident on Thursday night about a half-mile from

By Melissa Fares NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) – Renata Rojas has longed to visit the wreck of the Titanic since she was a girl, years before the

By Dominique Patton and Sue-Lin Wong BEIJING/PYONGYANG, April 14 (Reuters) – China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from