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  By Michael McDonald (Bloomberg) — The April opening of Panama’s $5.3 billion expanded canal, originally set for 2014, could be delayed further

  By Nicholas Brautlecht (Bloomberg) — Hapag-Lloyd AG adjusted its initial public offering plan for the third time this month, potentially depriving

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s second-biggest shipyard, rose the most in two months in

By Greg Torode HONG KONG, Oct 30 (Reuters) – When a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed near one of Beijing’s artificial islands in the

Over 35 years after eighty-six countries came together to found Inmarsat with a maritime safety mandate, the London-headquartered mobile communications

  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Oct 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. cargo ship El Faro which experienced engine failure and sank in a hurricane in the Bahamas

  Hornbeck Offshore is set to have more than 30 OSVs fleet stacked by year-end as the slump in oil prices continues to wreck havoc on the offshore market.

The Maersk Triple-E Mathilde Maersk makes it maiden call at the DP World Southampton container terminal at the port of Southampton on Wednesday, October

  Dutch shipowner Flinter announced Wednesday that all remaining heavy fuel oil has been successfully removed from the wreck of the MV

  A 223-meter bulk carrier will need to be scuttled after suffering catastrophic damage from its grounding along a remote stretch of coast in Mexico

  SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Shanghai International Port Group Co Ltd, the operator of the world’s busiest container port,

  Luxembourg-based Pacific Drilling (NYSE:PACD) says it has rescinded a construction contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship Pacific Zonda at Samsung

  By Sabrina Valle and Peter Millard (Bloomberg) — Oil majors had big plans for Brazil, but you can’t tell by looking at the country’s offshore

  By Rakteem Katakey and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc reported its biggest net loss in at least 16 years after Europe’s largest

  By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Freight rates for capesize bulk carriers could slip further next week as too many ships available

No need to get wet when you are landing this Hard Drive Marine-designed craft that can literally crawl itself onto a beach. “Designed for extended stays

Norwegian oil major Statoil says it has completed a deal with ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas offshore South Africa. Under the farm-in transaction,

By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar The withdrawal of services during the winter slack season will, in the next few weeks, propel laid-up cellular capacity past the

  In a rare occurrence, a Maersk tanker refueled a Military Sealift Command oiler while at sea during an exercise in international waters off the

  The future is not looking very good for a bulk carrier that remains pinned against a rocky shoreline along the Pacific coast of Mexico five days