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Firefighters in Japan were working to extinguish a fire in the cargo area of a Cambodian-flagged general cargo ship on Thursday. According to reports, the fire

By Benjamin Katz and Christopher Jasper (Bloomberg) — Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Warren East revealed the full extent of the

Ships are freaking

The effort to dismantle the ill-fated Costa Concordia continues in Genoa, Italy with approximately 200 technicians now working to cut up and remove

The Panama Canal is still dealing with a high backlog of vessels waiting to pass through the waterway, leaving ships, crews and cargo waiting

By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar There are “significant obstacles” to the sale of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), despite interest from Maersk

By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Maitripala Sirisena on Wednesday revoked all deals by a private security firm related to

The new ocean-going fleet of Viking Cruises will increase to six ships by 2020 with the company returning to Fincantieri for two

The Korean Government has ordered Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to halt work on five LPG carriers under construction at DSME’s Okpo

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Even after Western sanctions are lifted, Iran’s oil tanker fleet is expected to face more hurdles

FRANKFURT, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Newly-listed German container shipping group Hapag Lloyd said on Wednesday it broke even in the third quarter as it

  COPENHAGEN, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Busy refineries boosting tanker freight rates in the oil tanker market helped both Danish shipping companies D/S

  The Port of Houston Authority has commissioned the first of four new Super Post-Panamax STS cranes at its Barbours Cut Container Terminal. The four

February 2012: New footage of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov towed by the tug Nikolay Chiker after the aircraft carrier lost propulsion in the

  A fire onboard a ship under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo shipyard killed one and injured seven others

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes freighter that sank in a strong gale on eastern Lake Superior

  HOUSTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – A traffic jam of oil tankers has emerged along the U.S. Texas coast this month, a snarl that some traders see as the

  NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Cheniere Energy’s landmark Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export plant in Louisiana will receive its first

The 110-meter hull of the sail training ship El-Mellah was launched over the weekend at the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. The El-Mellah is

  By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Nov 9 (Reuters) – The world’s number one container shipping company Maersk Line expects consolidation in the