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Representatives from the Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) are in Amsterdam this week to discuss the

By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT, June 21 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is taking a hard look at lenders’ ship financing portfolios amid a

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The continuing cost-per-slot supremacy of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) was called into question by speakers

SHANGHAI, June 21 (Reuters) – State-owned China COSCO Shipping Corp plans to launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first route

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Line is fighting to remain the world’s no.1 container shipping carrier as a

By Robert Hutton, Alex Morales and Svenja O’Donnell (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister David Cameron made an impassioned plea to the British people to

A U.S.-built crane ship was used to conduct a trial transit of the Panama Canal’s new Cocoli Locks on Monday ahead of next week’s inauguration

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday published the final rule of its new and long-awaited towing vessel regulations known as Subchapter M establishing new

Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku on Monday delivered the cruise ship Mein Schiff 5 to TUI Cruises a full ten days ahead of schedule.  Construction of the

A Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier has been refloated after running aground on at a world-famous diving site off Cebu, Philippines last week. The ship, MV Belle

MANILA, June 20 (Reuters) – Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on Monday agreed to designate a transit corridor for commercial vessels crossing a

SEOUL, June 20 (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean have allegedly stabbed and killed the ship’s

Video published by the Italian Coast Guard shows firefighting efforts after a articulated tug and barge caught fire off the coast of Italy. The fire occurred

By Saket Sundria, Debjit Chakraborty and Dhwani Pandya (Bloomberg) — Oil and Natural Gas Corp., India’s biggest explorer, is preparing to spend on its

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Ship scrapping appears set to hit record levels this year, according to shipbroker and services firm Clarksons. In its

Update: Insurer Says Benita Grounding a Medical Issue, Not Mutiny A 44,000 DWT bulk carrier is hard aground in Mauritius after a fight apparently broke out on

Dozens of passengers and crew found themselves leaping from a heavily rolling ferry which became stuff against a pier at an island off Sicily on Thursday.

WARSAW, June 17 (Reuters) – Poland received its first supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar on Friday, part of a wider plan to cut its

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Seaspan Corp., a container ship-leasing company, said it won’t accept Hanjin Shipping Co.’s request for a cut in

One of the great benefits of attending the US Merchant Marine Academy is the experience of going out to sea on US-Flag merchant ships. This is called