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Houston-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo

After a successful approval process and survey, international classification society DNV GL and the Norwegian Maritime Directorate have issued the first polar

(Drewry) – The cost of operating cargo ships has fallen for two successive years but is forecast to rise in 2017 and beyond, according to the latest Ship

A salvage operation is underway to retrieve an abandoned bulk carrier from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa following a fire in its engine room

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has welcomed the extension of the counter-piracy naval operation EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta through 2018, calling

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Liverpool’s new container terminal expects to ramp up transatlantic shipping as British companies look

HOUSTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The Houston Ship Channel, which links the busiest U.S. petrochemical port to the Gulf of Mexico, reopened on Monday afternoon

The controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has kicked off its 11th Antarctic whale defense campaign with two Sea Shepherd vessels now on their way to

Four new Super Post Panamax ship-to-shore cranes arrived at the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal on Monday bringing the total number of

Wind turbine manufacturer Siemen’s Wind Power has been delivered its new customized wind turbine transport vessel to fulfill its need for cost effective

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday kicked off a public hearing on its investigation into the abandoning and sinking of the fishing vessel Alaska

A passenger aboard a Washington State Ferry captured video of the moment a motor boat named “Nap Tyme” collided with the WSF ferry

Amazing images coming from Mumbai showing an Indian Navy frigate capsized at berth…  Two people reportedly died and several others were

By John Kemp LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – OPEC has finally agreed to cut production, but only after two years of fruitless negotiations. So what changed to

AMSTERDAM, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Shares in Dutch deep-sea prospector Fugro fell 4.5 percent on Monday after larger rival Boskalis announced that it had

Officials in the U.K. are searching for a place of refuge for the bulk carrier V Due after a fire in one of its cargo holds while at anchor

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the wake of the Hanjin bankruptcy, THE Alliance has devised a “catastrophic instrument” funding mechanism, to be

By Rachel Morison (Bloomberg) — Autumn storms often do damage to Britain’s electricity networks as falling trees bring down local power cables. Angus,

By David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — While the global container industry has embarked on a spree of pairings and menages-a-trois over the past 12

By Andrea Shalal and Mike Stone SIMI VALLEY, Calif., Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. arms industry is ready and capable of boosting production of new ships if