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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Coast Guard Responding to Two Sunken Vessels in Mobile Ship Channel
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Coast Guard Responding to Two Sunken Vessels in Mobile Ship Channel

The Coast Guard is responding Tuesday to two sunken vessels -a towing vessel and a smaller dredger- which sank in the Mobile Ship Channel, north of Gaillard

October 14, 2014
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Panama Canal Registers Increased Tonnage in 2014

The Panama Canal registered an increase in tonnage to 326.8 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS) during fiscal year 2014 ending on September 30, according to

October 14, 2014
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Ebola Fight: Royal Navy Medical Ship Deployed to West Africa
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Ebola Fight: Royal Navy Medical Ship Deployed to West Africa

The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its efforts in the fight against Ebola with the deployment of troops, equipment and a medical ship to West Africa as

October 14, 2014
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U.S. Navy Warship to Remain in Philippines Amid Murder Probe
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U.S. Navy Warship to Remain in Philippines Amid Murder Probe

The United States will keep custody of a Marine named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, the head of the Philippine military

October 14, 2014
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Lundin Finds Oil and Gas in the Barents, Transocean Arctic Spuds-In

Utilizing the Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig, Lundin Norway AS announced today a significant oil and gas discovery in the southern part of the

October 14, 2014
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Turkey Ratifies Ballast Water Management Convention

The world is a step closer today to tackling one of the most serious threats to the ocean environment, the spread of invasive organisms via the ballast water

October 14, 2014
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Discoverer Americas Drillship Makes Big Gas Discovery Offshore Tanzania
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Discoverer Americas Drillship Makes Big Gas Discovery Offshore Tanzania

Transocean’s 6th generation drillship Discoverer Americas drilled into a huge gas reservoir offshore Tanzania recently according to a statement today by

October 14, 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Giant ‘Pieter Schelte’ Caught on Camera [VIDEO]
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Giant ‘Pieter Schelte’ Caught on Camera [VIDEO]

Some new video posted to Youtube gives us a rare look at the massive Pieter Schelte, a unique catamaran-like vessel that will soon be used to remove

October 13, 2014
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Oil Prices Continue to Fall as Output Hits Levels Not Seen Since the ’80s

West Texas Intermediate extended its rout from the lowest price in 22 months amid speculation that rising U.S. stockpiles are exacerbating a global glut

October 13, 2014
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Ship Strike Likely Killed Giant Fin Whale
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Ship Strike Likely Killed Giant Fin Whale

A 58-foot-long whale that washed up last week along a New York beach was likely killed by a collision with a

October 13, 2014
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BW Group Orders ME-GI 2-Strokes from MAN Diesel & Turbo

BW Group’s 73,400 m3 LNG carrier newbuilds at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) will be powered by pairs of MAN two-stroke ME-GI

October 13, 2014
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Brittany Ferries Suspends LNG Fuel Plans
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Brittany Ferries Suspends LNG Fuel Plans

Brittany Ferries says it has been forced to suspend plans to upgrade much of its fleet to operate on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) because a temporary exemption

October 13, 2014
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Passengers Evacuated After Norled Ferry Runs Aground
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Passengers Evacuated After Norled Ferry Runs Aground

A Norwegian can and passenger ferry ran aground late Sunday night forcing the evacuation of all

October 13, 2014
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Samsung Heavy Industries Lands $620 Million Order for LNG Carriers
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Samsung Heavy Industries Lands $620 Million Order for LNG Carriers

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries announced Monday that it has won a US $620 million order from an Asian buyer for the construction of three LNG

October 13, 2014
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Ten Injured After Ferry Strikes Pier in San Francisco
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Ten Injured After Ferry Strikes Pier in San Francisco

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is investigating accident in which a Bay Area ferry struck a piling at Pier 41 in San Francisco, causing multiple

October 13, 2014
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Australian Coal Exports Reach Record Levels

Australian coal miners are shrugging off a global glut of the fuel, exporting a record 158.5 million tonnes in the January-September period from the key mining

October 13, 2014
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Panoro Energy Gains Initial Approvals For FPSO Development Offshore Gabon

Panoro Energy ASA announced today that Gabon’s Direction Général de Hydrocarbures (DGH) has approved their plan to develop the Ruche cluster of

October 13, 2014
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
Espadon Jurong Drillship Design
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Bears Crowd to Sembcorp After Stock’s 18% Drop

Sembcorp Marine Ltd. lost about $1.3 billion in market value this year, making it the second-biggest decliner on Singapore’s Straits Times Index. There’s

October 12, 2014
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Teekay’s Navion Norvegia to be Converted for Libra FPSO Project

By late 2016, Teekay Offshore’s shuttle tanker Navion Norvegia will he installed offshore Brazil after an extensive yard period at Jurong Shipyard in

October 12, 2014
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Videos: Oasis of the Seas Dry Docking
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Videos: Oasis of the Seas Dry Docking

On 30 September 2014, the world’s largest cruise ship, “Oasis of the Seas”, arrived at the Keppel Verolme shipyard in Rotterdam for routine maintenance

October 12, 2014
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