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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

HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s PDVSA will discharge in the coming days its first cargo of U.S. crude bought from British BP, who along

Singaporean rig builder Sembcorp Marine is headed to court to settle a dispute with Marco Polo Marine over the termination of a $214.3 million jack-up rig

A a federal judge in Hawaii has sentenced a South Korean shipping company to pay a total of $950,000 for its failure to maintain an accurate oil record

Two less offshore vessels looking for work today as Island Offshore announces charter contracts for the company’s vessels Island Valiant and Island

Here is a cool time-lapse video filmed over two months onboard the MV Mercosul Suape, engaged in

By Jonathan Burgos and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The world’s two biggest builders of oil rigs saw their stocks rise the most in more than two years

Swiss-based MSC Cruises has revealed major plans to build up to four new LNG-powered cruise ships exceeding more than 200,000 gross tons. The announcement

BEIJING, April 6 (Reuters) – China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near which a U.S. warship

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A new survey of ship agents and brokers has discovered that nearly 20% of countries signed up to IMO international

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 6 (Reuters) – A traffic jam of nearly 30 large oil tankers has built up outside the Iraqi port of Basra due to loading