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The National Transportation Safety Board will launch the mission to recover El Faro’s voyage data recorder located in about 15,000 feet of water

By David Roman (Bloomberg) — France will urge European Union nations to coordinate navy patrols to ensure a “regular and visible” presence in the

French container shipping company CMA CGM has launched an all-cash offer for all outstanding shares of Singapore-listed Neptune Orient Lines. The offer price

By Jonathan Saul ATHENS, June 6 (Reuters) – Moves by China to stockpile oil are providing a further boost to the tanker shipping market which is already

The U.S.-flagged freighter MV Roger Blough was safely anchored in Waiska Bay, Michigan on Saturday afternoon where it will be inspected for damage and its

PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) – Preliminary work got underway on Monday to restart three of Total’s French oil refineries stopped as part of nationwide

The Celebrity Cruises cruise ship Celebrity Infinity ran into a little bit of trouble pulling up to a pier in Ketchikan, Alaska on Friday afternoon. Video

One year after the salvage firms Titan and Svitzer joined forces under the new brand Ardent, the combined company can report that, all things considered, the

BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) – China’s navy will send five ships to join a major U.S.-hosted naval drill this summer, even as tension mounts between

By Joe Ryan (Bloomberg) — New York State is mounting a broad effort to reduce the cost of building a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, an

The U.S. Coast Guard has reported that lightering operations on the grounded MV Roger Blough began Friday a full week after the American freighter ran

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) says it has been informed by its contractor Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A. (GUPC) that the Third Set of Locks for the

By Svetlana Burmistrova ASTRAKHAN, Russia, June 3 (Reuters) – When sanctions on Iran were lifted in January, Russia might have expected to be near the

British private equity firm Equistone Partners is buying marine navigation service ChartCo from fellow fund ECI for 55 million pounds ($79.43 million), the

The Cruise Lines International Association has bumped up its passenger predictions for 2016 after numbers showed that the industry surpassed its 2015 passenger

LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) – The shareholders of Middle East container shipping group United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) back the company’s merger

An Argentine Navy patrol ship has been damaged after dragging anchor and colliding with a tanker in strong winds near the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base in

By David Tweed and Kristine Servando (Bloomberg) — As China spends billions to upgrade and reorganize the People’s Liberation Army, the

The Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority has grounded all search and rescue flights of the H225 helicopter indefinitely following a fatal accident in Norway in

CAIRO, June 2 (Reuters) – Egypt on Thursday received the first of two French Mistral helicopter carriers and said the second would arrive in September as