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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
STX Offshore Seeks Corporate Restructuring Amid Serious Debt Issues
Finance

STX Offshore Seeks Corporate Restructuring Amid Serious Debt Issues

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) – South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co Ltd is seeking a corporate restructuring agreement from

April 2, 2013
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Monday, April 1, 2013
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News

ExxonMobil to Install Giant Floating LNG Facility Off Australia

(Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. oil company, plans to develop a floating liquefied natural gas project to develop the Scarborough field

April 1, 2013
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News

BP Maps Out the Future of Global Energy

BP presented their 2030 Energy Outlook at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently in Washington, DC.  “The Outlook describes

April 1, 2013
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News

Golden Ocean Orders Supramax Pair from Japan Marine United

Golden Ocean Group announced today that it has concluded two newbuilding contracts for 60,000 dwt Supramax bulk carriers with Japan Marine United

April 1, 2013
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Product Tanker Hits Bridge in New Hampshire [UPDATE]
Incidents

Product Tanker Hits Bridge in New Hampshire [UPDATE]

A 16,909 DWT oil product tanker has struck the Sarah Mildfred Long bridge on the Piscataqua River, the river that forms the border between southern Maine and

April 1, 2013
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Introducing “gCaptain.com Magazine: Yesterday’s News, Tomorrow” [UPDATE]
Blog

Introducing “gCaptain.com Magazine: Yesterday’s News, Tomorrow” [UPDATE]

In 2013, instant access to the billions of active users on the World Wide Web is just not good enough. That’s why, over the last couple of months, the

April 1, 2013
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News

Israel’s Navy Is Under-Equipped to Protect Offshore Energy Facilites

By Ari Rabinovitch ASHDOD, Israel, April 1 (Reuters) – Israel’s huge new offshore gas resource offers its enemies an obvious target and gives its

April 1, 2013
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Latest Maritime and Offshore Industry Jobs: Week of 24 – 31 March 2012
News

Latest Maritime and Offshore Industry Jobs: Week of 24 – 31 March 2012

Heaps of new jobs posted on gCaptain over the past few days… get ’em while they’re hot folks… Ships Operations Officer – Chief

March 31, 2013
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
High-Risk Ferry Docking in Greece [VIDEO]
Blog

High-Risk Ferry Docking in Greece [VIDEO]

Check out this footage of a ro/ro passenger ferry Mediterranean mooring to a dock in heavy seas at the Greek island of Kimolos on March 25, 2013. Long video

March 30, 2013
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Defense

Final Section of Wrecked Warship Removed from Philippine Reef

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders SULU SEA, The Philippines (March 30, 2013) – U.S. Navy and contracted salvage personnel embarked

March 30, 2013
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Friday, March 29, 2013
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News

Marisco Handed Monster Fine for EPA Clean Water Act Violations

HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) announced today their settlement with Marisco

March 29, 2013
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M/V GRACE BARLERIA
News

GDF Suez Signs 4-Year Charter for NYK LNG Carrier, Grace Barleria

Paris-based energy firm GDF Suez announced today they have entered into a 4-year time charter of the NYK-owned LNG carrier “GRACE BARLERIA”. GRACE

March 29, 2013
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STX Pan Ocean Vanguard
News

STX Pan Ocean Sale Fails To Attract Bids, Bank Considering Other Options

SEOUL, March 29 (Reuters) – An initial round of bidding to acquire a controlling stake in South Korean bulk shipper STX Pan Ocean Co failed to attract

March 29, 2013
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News

Even a Weakening Yen Won’t Save Japan’s Shipyards Says JMU

(Bloomberg) — Japanese shipbuilders may post losses next fiscal year as the yen’s weakening fails to mitigate the impact of a global supply glut

March 29, 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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News

Britain’s LNG Import Prices Now Rival that of Japan

By Henning Gloystein LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) – Britain is currently paying some of the world’s highest wholesale gas prices, rivalling those in

March 28, 2013
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News

Former NATO Submarine Commander Signs On As New AdvanFort Business Development Manager

Washington, D.C. — The maritime security leader AdvanFort Company is pleased to announce the choice of Dimitrios Angelopoulos, a retired Hellenic Navy

March 28, 2013
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News

Flagship Management’s Team Continues to Grow

Florida-based consultancy Flagship Management, LLC, announced today that Thomas Allsworth and Denis Kelleher have joined their firm as Associates in its

March 28, 2013
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Engineering News

Damen Shipyards to Build Robert Allan-Designed “Rotor Tugs”

Vancouver-based naval architects, Robert Allan Ltd. report today that two of their new ART 80-32 class Rotor tugs are to be built by the Damen Shipyards group

March 28, 2013
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Multimedia

WATCH: VT Halter Marine Launches USNS Maury (T-AGS 66)

Pascagoula, Mississippi shipbuilder VT Halter Marine held a christening ceremony yesterday for USNS MAURY (T-AGS 66), the seventh ship in the T-AGS 60 Class of

March 28, 2013
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News

Increased Spot Charters from US Gulf Coast Expected as Plants Complete Maintenance Cycle

(Bloomberg) — Exports of diesel fuel from the U.S. Gulf Coast are poised to climb as refineries returning from maintenance boost production, widening the

March 28, 2013
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