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Bodewes Binnenvaart B.V., Damen Shipyards Group’s inland waterway shipyard, and inland shipping company QaGroup are set to launch an entirely new inland

Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc’s well intervention vessel Seawell pioneered the well intervention industry when she first entered North Sea service

OSLO–Norway’s oil safety agency opened an investigation Wednesday into last week’s scare in the Barents Sea involving an Eni SpA (E)

Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ:ORIG), a global drilling company that specializes exclusively in the deep water segment, announced today that it has received a

COSCO Corporation announced today that their subsidiary, COSCO Qidong Offshore Co. Ltd., has secured a contract valued over USD $200 million from Axis

HAMBURG — DNV and AMOS system supplier SpecTec have launched an all-in-one planned inspection and maintenance system for ship structures. AMOS is a

Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (Nasdaq:VLCCF) announced today that the sale of the VLCC Hampstead, which was discussed in their second quarter earnings release

The dry-bulk shipping market has been in the doldrums again of late (the Baltic Dry Index is again near record lows and recently had a 31-session streak of

The European Union set stricter limits for sulfur in ship fuel, enacting International Maritime Organization agreements to fight air pollution. The European

There’s no technology on the horizon that’s going to replace the shipboard engineering watchstander anytime soon, that’s for certain.

On Saturday 8 September, Spanish warship ESPS Relámpago, currently operating as part of the EU Naval Force – Operation ATALANTA, fighting piracy off

The flow of much of the world’s oil is controlled from a small suite of offices perched over a Tiffany & Co. store in the Chelsea section of London.

Returns for tankers carrying oil products from the U.S. slumped after price gains in the country and Europe limited the incentive for trans-Atlantic shipments,

Big announcements were made today by Switzerland-based deep water drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX:RIGN). In a move to make the company a

MOSCOW–APM Terminals, the port-operating arm of Danish industrial group A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO), said Monday that it has acquired a stake

A collision between two ships resulted in an oil spill in the sea outside Singapore, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. The accident

(Bloomberg) — The shipping lanes of the Pacific and Indian Oceans show the diverging fortunes of U.S. and European consumers ahead of the busiest

UPDATE 2: The MT Abu Dhabi Star has been released after pirates fled when approached by the Nigerian navy, Reuters reports. The vessel was released without

Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, is moving to spend $25 billion on a second port, a crude pipeline and roads that will open up export routes in a

Yet another successful launch for Keppel Corp in Singapore.  The offshore and marine giant set afloat the Mobile Offshore Self-Elevating Drilling Unit (SEDU)