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Tokyo – The Tanker Structure Co-operative Forum (TSCF) has elected Hayato Suga as its next Chairman at a recent Steering Committee Meeting. Hayato Suga

PRONAUTAS and Jan De Nul Group have announced a new partnership to roll out an ECDIS implementation program onboard Jan De Nul vessels. PRONAUTAS will deliver

The biggest U.S. oil boom in almost a quarter century is prompting refiners in the Gulf of Mexico to book the most tankers since at least 2011 to ship products

Canada's BC Ferries is moving forward with plans to build three car and passenger ferries to run on LNG fuel as the company looks to decrease fuel costs and

A group comprised of 17 oil and gas companies has established a project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents

Germany’s top shipping lenders, including Commerzbank AG and HSH Nordbank AG, face rising credit default risks next year as banks come under increasing

When importing a single cargo by sea requires an average of 36 original documents and 240 copies from 27 parties, the only wonder is that it has taken so long

India’s largest non-state owned shipping firm, Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd, announced plans today to expand their dry bulk fleet with an order to

BS made the strategic decision to provide greater access to our offshore clients by locating ABS’ industry-focused resources in a dedicated facility in

Nickel, the worst performing base metal this year, offers investors the best opportunity for advances in early 2014 as Indonesia is poised to halt the export

Australia approved on Tuesday major dredging work to expand a coal shipping port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to attract more coal

The wreckage of a wooden steamship that sank 152 years ago in a storm on Lake Huron with no survivors has been found, a Michigan explorer said on

This week I turn my attention to the coming IPO of Scorpio Bulkers Inc., an ambitious dry-cargo start-up led by the same management team as Scorpio Tankers

The sunken Stephen L. Colby has been lifted from the bed of the Mississippi River more than two weeks after the towboat struck a submerged object and sank

Canada intends to lay claim to the North Pole as part of a bid to assert control over a large part of the resource-rich Arctic, Foreign Minister John Baird

In 2013, the dry bulk fleet grew larger, the order book is increased, the age profile of the fleet is getting younger and shipowners slowed scrapping of

After unloading scrap metal cargo at Erdemir Port, a Turkish port on the Black Sea, the cargo ship Croatia left the dock to anchor in the harbor. Scale model

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) released their list of 9 ships which were detained by Port State Control last month. The biggest loser within the

Wärtsilä has announced an order today from chemical tanker owner Stolt Tankers B.V. to supply the complete main propulsion systems for six new 38,000

HAMBURG, Dec 9 (Reuters) – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd’s merger talks with Chile’s Vapores may herald further deals with other peers,