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The fertilizer cargo on board a UK-flagged cargo ship has finally stopped smoldering more than two weeks after its crew was forced to abandon ship due to toxic

By Ruthy Munoz and Gary McWilliams HOUSTON, Texas, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose

A Russian icebreaking LNG carrier has become the first commercial vessel to travel the full length of the Northern Sea Route without an icebreaker escort. The

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — While other offshore rig operators are still struggling to survive the worst oil-market slump in a generation, one

The world’s first containership to be converted to run on low-emission LNG fuel was re-launched on Thursday in Bremerhaven, Germany. The

Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in preparation for Hurricane Harvey, which is forecast to make landfall

COPENHAGEN, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Maersk Tankers said on Wednesday it has entered into an equity agreement with U.S. hedge fund CargoMetrics, giving it

U.S. defense contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced Wednesday that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected to repair the

The U.S. Navy has relieved the commander of the Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command. The removal

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain may have suffered a loss of steering prior to its collision with a merchant tanker near Singapore on Monday, a

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk has been fortified by the $7.5 billion sale of its oil and gas business to

By Fathin Ungku and Masayuki Kitano SINGAPORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Ten U.S. sailors were missing after a U.S. warship collided with an oil tanker east of

SEOUL (Reuters) – An explosion at a shipyard in South Korea owned by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding killed four workers on Sunday, the country’s

By Sam Whelan (The Loadstar) – Blockchain initiative 300cubits has created a new type of cryptocurrency to solve liner shipping’s US$23bn

By Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — When the tanker Provalys left Louisiana for Chile last month with a full load of U.S. liquefied natural gas, it

DUBAI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Qatar Navigation (Milaha) , a top Doha-based shipping and logistics group, said on Wednesday it had launched a new container

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has sworn in Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby (USN, Ret.) as the Administrator of the Maritime Administration. Prior to his

By Peter Nicholls PORTSMOUTH, England, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Britain’s most advanced and biggest warship, the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMS Queen

By Mikael Holter and David Wethe (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. agreed to buy Songa Offshore SE in the biggest offshore drilling industry deal since oil

Check out this animation from Genscape Vesseltracker showing the AIS track of the 366-meter containership CSCL Jupiter when it ran aground on Monday in