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Holding company Genting Hong Kong has announced plans to build two 201,000 gross ton cruise ships as part of a 10-ship order at its newly acquired shipyards in

This incident apparently occurred recently in the Gulf of Izmit. Luckily it appears whoever may have been aboard the small boat did not hurt, but they easily

French container shipping company has pulled the 18,000 TEU CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin from the trans-pacific market, officially ending – or at least

By Roslan Khasawneh May 11 (Reuters) – The UK Supreme Court ruled in favour of bankrupt marine fuel supplier OW Bunker Malta in a dispute over payment

General Dynamics NASSCO has launched and christened the MT Garden State, the third of five ECO Class tankers to join the Jones Act fleet. Once delivered, the

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Lockheed Martin Corp. is under orders from the U.S. Navy to correct quality control failures in building its version of

Aida Cruises’ new flagship AIDAprima was christened in Germany over the weekend in a grand ceremony taking place during the Port of Hamburg’s 827th

The third LNG-powered offshore supply vessel to hit the Gulf of Mexico was delivered Tuesday in Port Fourchon, Louisiana and is now ready to enter service in

Rolls-Royce has won the tender to design and equip the UK’s new $300 million polar research vessel RRS Boaty McBoatface RRS Sir David Attenborough, said

Maersk Line is working with Chinese authorities on a plan to tow the fire-scorched Safmarine Meru to port following Sunday morning’s collision off

By Kyunghee Park and Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. fell the most in three weeks in Seoul trading on uncertainty over whether South

By Michael Martina, Greg Torode and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/HONG KONG, May 10 (Reuters) – China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite Maersk Line’s better-than-expected $37m first-quarter net profit, Drewry today reiterated its view that ocean

A major collision over the weekend involving two containerships off Ningbo, China caused severe damage to both ships and fire on board one of them. No serious

SEOUL, May 9 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, the world’s biggest shipbuilder by revenue, will slash more jobs and

By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — Dong Energy A/S, the world’s biggest developer of offshore wind farms, is expanding into Taiwan and the U.S. as it

COPENHAGEN, May 9 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Oil will cut 40 jobs in Copenhagen, Aberdeen and Stavanger due to the low oil price, it said on

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Disagreement among nations means no carbon emissions targets have been set for international

SHANGHAI, May 7 (Reuters) – Seventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea

The U.S. Navy’s USNS Spearhead (T-EFTP 1), crewed by civilian mariners from Military Sealift Command, returns to the Joint Expeditionary Base Little