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A unit of Royal Dutch Shell has completed the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering to take place at the Port of Rotterdam using the new specialized LNG bunker

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Seaspan, the world’s largest non-operating containership owner, has announced its first significant investment outside

An abandoned ghost ship that drifted into Myanmar’s waters in August has now sunk, officials said Tuesday. The ship, which has identified as the

The 70-meter cargo ship Ying Hai sank in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday after it developing a heavy list on a voyage from Kaohsiung city to Busan Korea. The

By Kanupriya Kapoor and Tom Allard WANI, Indonesia, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Ship’s engineer Charles Marlan had the unsettling sensation his vessel was

The world’s first large-scale ocean cleanup system is now headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after successfully completing sea trials off the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – There has been insufficient mainstream publicity on the IMO’s 2020 global emissions regulation for shipping, and a

Dutch shipbuilding group Damen has announced receiving contract from the Estonian natural gas company Eesti Gaas for the construction of the first short-sea

SINGAPORE, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Singapore authorities are taking measures to ensure the availability of low-sulphur marine fuels ahead of upcoming emissions

By Ron Bousso LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Executives at the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are under growing pressure to loosen the purse

By Anne Marie Roantree HONG KONG, Oct 3 (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil shipments to China have “totally stopped”, the President of China

gCaptain has just obtained photos showing a confrontation involving the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Decatur and a Chinese Navy warship in the disputed South China

By David French and Jessica Resnick-Ault Oct 2 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp is exploring the sale of many of its U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets, as higher

By Marianna Parraga Oct 2 (Reuters) – Repairs to a dock at Venezuela’s main oil export port will take at least another month to complete following

Update: Photos Show Confrontation Between USS Decatur and Chinese Navy Warship in South China Sea By David Tweed and Dong Lyu (Bloomberg) — The U.S.

By Sabina Zawadzki LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The launch of a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Canada has finally fired the starting

Update: A representative of Danish ferry operator DFDS said the Regina Seaways has a technical problem, but it is not on fire. The ferry is expected to be

The Panama Canal Authority says it has reached a new milestone with the successful transit of four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships with beams of up to 160

Captain Kenny Brown is the founder of Maritime Throwdown (MTD), a new industrial maritime competition that tests mariners from across the United States on

By Steve Scherer ROME, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Italy’s closing of its ports to rescued migrants is driving up deaths at sea, an Italian think tank said