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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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Cuba’s No-Cubans Rule Puts Cruise Lines in Uncharted Waters

By Justin Bachman (Bloomberg) — Carnival Corp.’s maiden voyage to Cuba next month will be filled with almost 700 cruisers looking to spend time

April 12, 2016
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Marine Industry Looks to Cruise Ships, Wind Farms to Weather Oil Slump
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Marine Industry Looks to Cruise Ships, Wind Farms to Weather Oil Slump

By Aradhana Aravindan and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 12 (Reuters) – Marine and offshore engineering companies are turning to cruise ships, fishing

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 54

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Rolls-Royce Reveals Latest Vision for Drone Ships: “This Is Happening”

Rolls-Royce’s Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) project has unveiled its vision for how remote and autonomous drone ships

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 149

Suez Cuts Transit Fees for US-Asia Ships to Combat Allure of Cape of Good Hope
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Suez Cuts Transit Fees for US-Asia Ships to Combat Allure of Cape of Good Hope

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has reacted to the increasing number of backhaul voyages being routed to Asia via the

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 48

DOF Vessels Land North Sea Work
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DOF Vessels Land North Sea Work

Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF Group says it has won two contracts for two of its vessels in the North Sea. The first contracted was awarded to the DOF

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 30

European Shipowners Welcome European Parliament Report on Migrants
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European Shipowners Welcome European Parliament Report on Migrants

European shipowners have welcomed the own-initiative report by the European Parliament to be adopted this week on migration, outlining in detail how the

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 48

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Cheap Oil Blunting Drive for Fuel Efficiency -Kemp

By John Kemp LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) – Fuel consumption is not very sensitive to a small change in prices in the short run, but if the price change

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 13

Monday, April 11, 2016
DSD Shipping Sentenced to Pay $2.5 Million Over Illegal Discharges
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DSD Shipping Sentenced to Pay $2.5 Million Over Illegal Discharges

Norwegian shipping company DSD Shipping has been sentenced to pay a total penalty of $2.5 million as a result of its convictions in Mobile, Alabama, for

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 179

Pirates Kidnap Six from Tanker Off Nigeria
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Pirates Kidnap Six from Tanker Off Nigeria

By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS, April 11 (Reuters) – Six Turkish members of a cargo ship’s crew have been kidnapped by pirates off the coast of

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 115

Maersk Tankers Christens Two Medium Range Newbuilds in South Korea
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Maersk Tankers Christens Two Medium Range Newbuilds in South Korea

Maersk Tankers on Friday christened two more medium range newbuilds at the Sungdong Shipyard in Tongyong, South Korea as part of the company’s fleet

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 123

G7 Leaders Concerned By South China Sea Territorial Disputes
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G7 Leaders Concerned By South China Sea Territorial Disputes

By Andy Sharp (Bloomberg) — Foreign Ministers from the Group of Seven leading economies expressed concern over territorial disputes in Asian waters where

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 59

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Baltic Dry Index Up for Twelfth Straight Session as Capesize Rates Soar

April 11 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Monday for the

April 11, 2016
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Svitzer Enters Port of Montreal
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Svitzer Enters Port of Montreal

Svitzer, the towage unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk, will be expanding in Canada as the company announced that it has established a harbor towage service in the

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 184

World’s First Methanol-Powered Tankers Set for Delivery
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World’s First Methanol-Powered Tankers Set for Delivery

The first ocean-going vessels capable of running on methanol fuel are being prepared for delivery later this month.  The seven 50,000 DWT tankers are

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 172

CMA CGM Offers Concessions to Get EU Approval for $2.4 Billion NOL Deal
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CMA CGM Offers Concessions to Get EU Approval for $2.4 Billion NOL Deal

BRUSSELS, April 11 – French container shipping group CMA CGM has offered concessions in a bid to win European Union antitrust approval for its $2.4

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 65

Oil Climbs to Four-Month High
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Oil Climbs to Four-Month High

By Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) — Oil rose to a four-month high in London ahead of a meeting in Doha this month where producers will discuss freezing output.

April 11, 2016
Total Views: 23

Saturday, April 9, 2016
Three Castaways Rescued from Deserted Island After Writing “HELP” on Sand
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Three Castaways Rescued from Deserted Island After Writing “HELP” on Sand

Three men were rescued from a deserted island in the western Pacific after a U.S. Navy patrol plane spotted the word H-E-L-P spelled out on

April 9, 2016
Total Views: 204

Friday, April 8, 2016
WATCH: History Made as SpaceX Lands Rocket on Drone Ship at Sea
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WATCH: History Made as SpaceX Lands Rocket on Drone Ship at Sea

Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX made history on Friday finally landing its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the middle of the

April 8, 2016
Total Views: 180

Nuclear Waste Ship MV Sigrid Runs Aground in Sweden
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Nuclear Waste Ship MV Sigrid Runs Aground in Sweden

A Swedish cargo ship designed to haul radioactive waste ran into a little trouble Friday outside the harbor of a decommissioned nuclear power

April 8, 2016
Total Views: 365

WATCH: Float-On Megayacht Transport with Super Servant 4
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WATCH: Float-On Megayacht Transport with Super Servant 4

Aerial footage of DYT Yacht Transport’s semi-submersible yacht carrier Super Servant 4 loading vessels using the float-on/float-off

April 8, 2016
Total Views: 226