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A Russian icebreaker has succesfully towed an iceberg weighing approximately 1 million tons, according to the oil company Rosneft. The tow was part of a test

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory

A tugboat crew from Resolve Marine together with the U.S. Coast Guard helped rescue an adrift 400-foot cargo vessel with 12 people aboard during a multiple day

By Jessica Jaganathan and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Glencore’s shipping unit ST Shipping has chartered a newly built very large

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s second-largest shipbuilder, plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs,

By Benjamin Kang Lim and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL/BEIJING, Oct 12 (Reuters) – A little-known investment company said it intends to order up to 20 liquefied

OSLO, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Lithuania plans to start liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering next year, and will soon call a tender for a test cargo,

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation (USAAF) has created its own independent task force to address instances of sexual harassment

A video uploaded to Youtube has some people on the internet thinking they’ve just seen a ghost (ship, that is). The video was uploaded by Jason Asselin,

By Perry Williams (Bloomberg) — BP Plc has abandoned oil exploration in the offshore Great Australian Bight, five years after it began searching for

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Tuesday warned that whoever fired missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer and an

COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Danish anglers could be in for the fishing trip of their lives in a few days’ time, after a ship crashed into a fish

A consortium made up of engineering firm HaskoningDHV UK and Hyundai Engineering & Construction has been selected to perform the Front-End Engineering

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The Seoul Central District Court overseeing the receivership filing of Hanjin Shipping Co. is considering a disposal of

Miami-based cruise giant Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland for two LNG-powered cruise

BERLIN, Oct 11 (Reuters) – A tender worth around 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) for four warships for the German navy has been delayed by around six

By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based trader Winson Oil has bought a very large crude carrier (VLCC) to store oil in the

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) to four pre-qualified port operators selected to compete for the concession to

International classification society the American Bureau of Shipping has been awarded a research by the U.S. Maritime Security Center to conduct a two-year

The Marshall Islands Registry has obtained the status of the number one ship registry for the world’s tanker fleet with 44.6 million gross tons, the