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A historic minesweeper formerly belonging to the Royal Navy has sunk while moored at Vittoria Dock in Birkenhead, England where it has been laid up for years.

By Owen Palmiotti (Coeval, Inc.)…I may have been in diapers when I first learned about communicating. Back then, I was most likely talking to my brother

Two German shipping companies have pleaded guilty to environmental crimes related to the use of a so-called “magic pipe” to bypass one of its

The Energy Technologies Institute in the UK is looking for partners in a project that will test the use of flattener rotors as a way to increase fuel

By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) – Over two weeks after the United Nations slapped harsh new sanctions on North Korea, several Chinese

March 17 (Reuters) – A dog believed to have drowned after disappearing from a fishing boat off the California coast five weeks ago was found on an island

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Creditors of Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) today rejected a rescheduling of the troubled shipping company’s debt,

By Christian Wienberg and Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Maersk Drilling is looking into buying used oil rigs to take advantage of low prices and the

SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) – China COSCO Shipping Corporation and Vale have signed a 27-year-long agreement that will see the Chinese shipping giant

Oil giant BP decided to take the last Aussie-crewed fuel tanker, the MT British Fidelity, off the Australian coast. The vessel, currently in Singapore, was

Florida-based Crowley Marine Services has lost a bid to continue to provide tanker escort and oil spill prevention and response services in Valdez and

The Hoegh Osaka had no chance of surviving the Bramble Bank turn shortly after the vessel departed from the port of Southampton on January 3, 2015 with

By Edward Krudy NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) – The Port of Long Beach, the second largest port in the United States, will see 5 percent growth in cargo

Shipping company Golden Ocean Group raised about U$7.8 million through a subsequent offering of 34.37 million new shares. The company was able to sell about

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Idled global container capacity has reached a record high of 1.57m teu, according to the latest data from Alphaliner.

Norwegian offshore shipbuilder VARD says it has signed a letter of intent to build four expedition cruise ships for French cruise company Ponant. The new

Maersk’s E-Class Emma Maersk departs Damen Shiprepair Brest in northern France following drydock services, a Special Survey and maintenance works. Photos

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) – State-run conglomerate China Merchants Group has made an informal bid to buy London’s Baltic

ABUJA, March 16 (Reuters) – Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea signed an agreement to establish combined patrols to bolster security in the Gulf of Guinea,

BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (Reuters) – Argentina’s coast guard has sunk a Chinese trawler that was fishing illegally within its territorial waters, the