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Prosecutors blamed the Tunisian captain of a fishing boat for causing the deaths of hundreds of migrants locked below decks when his vessel capsized in the

A small coastal tanker is hijacked by pirates in South East Asia every two weeks on average, according to a new report from the International Maritime Bureau

Lower oil prices are sharply reducing the cost of shipping merchandise from Asia to the United States and Europe as the cost of bunker fuel

Crowley Maritime Corp. and Svitzer have agreed to merge their salvage divisions to create a new company named “Ardent.” The company will be equally owned

In less than 12 hours from now, a group of 32 professionals from Singapore’s maritime and insurance community will begin a 24-hour endurance challenge

The oil drilling industry faces a wave of take-overs in the next two years as crude prices are expected to remain under $85 per barrel, said Claus Hemmingsen,

Update: Grounded Bulk Carrier Stopping Traffic on St. Lawrence River Polsteam’s 621-foot handysize bulk carrier Juno grounded today as she was making her

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, today announced plans to introduce legislation this year to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil.  Her remarks

The U.S. Navy has sent an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile cruiser into the waters near Yemen to conduct maritime security operations, a Pentagon

More than 180 passengers have been evacuated from a ro-pax ferry which had ran aground in a storm off the coast of Turkey this weekend. They ferry, the

The International Chamber of Shipping is responding to recent claims by the European environmental lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) that new

Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fourth largest container shipping company following its merger with CSAV, says it has ordered five new containerships to be

Five years ago today, eleven lives were lost and 17 others were injured when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig suffered a catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. dropped as much as 6.5 percent after the cruise line cut its annual profit forecast, blaming fuel prices and the stronger

European Union foreign ministers met on Monday under pressure to produce more than words and save desperate migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, as bodies

A RoPax ferry design by Danish naval architecture firm Knud E. Hansen has just been chosen by Denmark’s Strandfaraskip Landsins to replace the current

Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, Anthem of the Sea, sailed into her new homeport of Southampton, UK last week for its inauguration on Monday. The

"I have never faced a more difficult and challenging work environment," commented Chief Executive Ayman

San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO on Saturday celebrated the launch of the Isla Bella, the world’s first LNG-powered containership. More than

Qatar Gas Transport Co (Nakilat), one of the world's largest shippers of liquefied natural gas, posted a 7.7 percent rise in first-quarter net profit on