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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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Graduates from SUNY Maritime College receive among the highest return on investment on their degrees in the country. In its annual report of best value

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has revealed the hull design for its next-generation car carrier with a rounded bow said to reduce wind

April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said it reopened the Mississippi River to some shipping traffic on Friday following a midweek barge accident

An 88-meter cargo ship collided with a Turkish passenger ferry in the Dardanelles strait this week, causing damage to both vessels. The Turkish Directorate of

By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS, April 8 (Reuters) – Greece sealed the sale of Piraeus Port Authority to China COSCO Shipping Corporation on Friday, while

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — Nippon Yusen K.K., Japan’s largest shipping line, is looking to buy a company involved in deep-sea

Animation from the American Maritime Partnership explaining the importance of the Jones

By Phil Stewart PORTLAND, Oregon, April 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. military on Thursday christened an experimental self-driving warship designed to hunt for

A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts says that more oversight and planning is needed to address the steady increase in ship traffic

With the leaked Panama Papers shining a spotlight on the use offshore accounts to hide investments by of some the world’s most powerful people, the

FRANKFURT, April 7 (Reuters) – NordLB expects lower earnings this year partly as a result of the German public sector bank’s efforts to cut its

By Libby George and Keith Wallis LONDON/SINGAPORE, April 7 (Reuters) – A surge in oil buying by China’s newest crude importers has created delays