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Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles reached 8,856,782 TEU in 2016, marking the busiest year ever for the port or any port in the Western Hemisphere Port

A total of 15 containers were lost from a general cargo ship in the North Sea off the Netherlands on Wednesday. The Dutch Coastguard reported the

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China said it had the right to act in its own territory in the disputed South China Sea, pushing back after

By Natalie Obiko Pearson and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The tightening of emissions limits for deep-water ships has some of North America’s

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) – China aims to capture up to 40 percent of the global high-end marine equipment market over the years through 2020 while

Jan 11 (Reuters) – The biggest divergence between U.S. and Asian gas prices in a year has created an opportunity for tankers delivering liquefied natural

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s development of offshore wind farms could be set to accelerate, supported by favorable government-backed

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced its plan to restore Sea Year training as part of the curriculum for Midshipmen at the United States

Maersk Oil plans to reduce its workforce in Denmark by approximately 160 positions as part of a plan to simplify the organization, the company said this week.

The Canadian Coast Guard is continuing to monitor the environmental response and salvage of the grounded Arca 1 bunkering tanker off Sydney Mines in Cape

Offshore and specialized ship-builder VARD has secured contracts for the construction of two LNG powered RoPax ferries for Torghatten Nord in Norway.  The

BUDAPEST, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Hungary and Bulgaria have banned shipping on the Danube as the river is freezing over and floating ice poses a risk.

Today’s ship photos come to us from shipowner Teekay showing the LNG carrier Oak Spirit transiting the Panama Canal with the first cargo of U.S. shale

A rather complex rescue went down in the Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska a few hundred miles from Kodiak, Alaska over the weekend but luckily it appears to have

LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – A European Union proposal to impose a levy on ships over their greenhouse gas emissions risks undermining the sector’s

Here is an infographic provided by the ship valuation experts at VesselsValue.com showing the world’s top ten ship-owning nations in the year 2017. As

Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group has appointed Admiral Robert Papp, former Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard, as President of the company’s new

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Containerships sailing from Asia to North Europe are running “full to the gunnels” ahead of the Chinese New Year

By Josh Wingrove and Robert Tuttle (Bloomberg) — The Canadian government says it won’t grant extensions to exploration licenses for Exxon Mobil

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Iran has sold more than 13 million barrels of oil that it had long held on tankers at sea, capitalising on