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Monday, April 21, 2014
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News

SPOTD: Easter at Ekofisk

Christoffer Marstone, 1st Officer on board the Well Stimulation Vessel “Island Commander” sends us this image taken yesterday at the Ekofisk Oil

April 21, 2014
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Finance

Genco Shipping Files for Bankruptcy

By Dawn McCarty April 21 (Bloomberg) — Peter Georgiopoulos’s Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd., an operator of dry-bulk cargo ships, filed for

April 21, 2014
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Port of Los Angeles Shipments Jump Most Since 2007
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Port of Los Angeles Shipments Jump Most Since 2007

Container shipments through the port of Los Angeles climbed in March by the most in seven years as commerce rebounded after disruptions caused by the Chinese

April 21, 2014
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News

COSCO Wins Ulstein PX121 Order

COSCO Corporation announced today the signing of contracts with a undisclosed shipowners for four emergency response – field support vessels (FSVs) and a

April 21, 2014
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News

Arctech Helsinki Wins Icebreaking PSV Order from Sovcomflot

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard announced today the signing of a EUR 100 million order with Sovcomflot for a new icebreaking platform supply vessel (PSV). Upon

April 21, 2014
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Containership’s Arrival Marks Start of New Great Lakes-European Trade Route
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Containership’s Arrival Marks Start of New Great Lakes-European Trade Route

With the arrival of a 450-foot containership in the port of Cleveland Friday night, a new trade route linking the Great Lakes region with northern Europe was

April 21, 2014
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Chinese Court Seizes MOL Ore Carrier Over 1930’s Dispute
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Chinese Court Seizes MOL Ore Carrier Over 1930’s Dispute

A Shanghai court ordered the seizure of a Japanese iron ore carrier from Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. as compensation for the loss of two ships leased from a Chinese

April 21, 2014
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South Korean President Says Conduct of Sewol Crew Amounts to Murder
Incidents

South Korean President Says Conduct of Sewol Crew Amounts to Murder

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday the actions of the captain and crew of a ferry that sank last week with hundreds feared dead were

April 21, 2014
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Maritime Professional Training’s Amy Beavers Appointed as MERPAC Vice Chair
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Maritime Professional Training’s Amy Beavers Appointed as MERPAC Vice Chair

Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio has formally appointed Amy Beavers, Vice President of Regulatory Compliance at Florida-based maritime school Maritime

April 21, 2014
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Four Years Since Deepwater Horizon, Risk is Still Everywhere
Incidents

Four Years Since Deepwater Horizon, Risk is Still Everywhere

“Rob are you ok?” Four years ago today, a friend of mine woke me up with those words. He was referring to the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which

April 20, 2014
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Incidents

Prosecutors Extend Korea Ferry Captain’s Detention As Death Toll Mounts

By Ju-min Park and Jungmin Jang JINDO/MOKPO, South Korea, April 20 (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors investigating last week’s ferry disaster

April 20, 2014
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Harvey Gulf Dual Fuel OSV Gets First Lockheed Tank
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Harvey Gulf Dual Fuel OSV Gets First Lockheed Tank

The first of three NASA-inspired cryogenic fuel tanks designed by Lockheed Martin for Harvey Gulf’s U.S.-flagged dual fuel OSVs has been delivered to the

April 20, 2014
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Prosecutors Extend Sewol Captain’s Detention As Death Toll Mounts
Shipping News

Prosecutors Extend Sewol Captain’s Detention As Death Toll Mounts

South Korean prosecutors investigating a ferry disaster said on Sunday they would seek to extend the detention of the ship's captain and two other crew by 10

April 20, 2014
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
Search for MH370: AUV May Complete Mission Next Week
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Search for MH370: AUV May Complete Mission Next Week

An unmanned submarine on its seventh dive for the missing Flight MH370 may complete its mission in the southern Indian Ocean within a week, said the Australian

April 19, 2014
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Divers Find Bodies in Sunken Sewol Ferry
Incidents

Divers Find Bodies in Sunken Sewol Ferry

Divers searching for survivors of a capsized South Korean ferry saw three bodies floating through a window of a passenger cabin on Saturday but were unable to

April 19, 2014
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Friday, April 18, 2014
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Gazprom Ships First Arctic Oil from Controversial Prirazlomnoye Platform

By Alexei Anishchuk NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia, April 18 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin hailed Russia’s first shipment of Arctic offshore oil on

April 18, 2014
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bulk carrier ornak aground
Grounding Incidents

751-Foot Bulk Carrier Freed from Virginia Beach

USCG spokesperson Lt. Scott Williams reports in a phone call that the 751-foot bulk carrier which ran aground on Virginia Beach on Monday night has been

April 18, 2014
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Building the Baltika – the World’s First Oblique Icebreaker
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Building the Baltika – the World’s First Oblique Icebreaker

Built by Arctech Helsinki for the Russian Ministry of Transport, Baltika is the world’s first icebreaker built with an asymmetrical hull which allows it

April 18, 2014
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China Orders Containerships from Tsuneishi

Tsuneishi Group (ZHOUSHAN) Shipbuilding has received newbuild orders this week for four 1,020 TEU containerships from the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of

April 18, 2014
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dsme crane sewol sinking
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Vice Principal Of South Korea School In Ferry Disaster Commits Suicide

By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea, April 18 (Reuters) – The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds

April 18, 2014
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