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The U.S. Navy is looking at an average annual cost of nearly $21 billion to reach its goal of 308 battle force ships, about one-third more than amount of

By J. Michael Cavanaugh and Eric Lee (Holland & Knight) – Once he assumes office on Jan. 20, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump will be responsible

Melting polar icecaps have allowed the Hansa Heavy Lift vessel HHL Valparaiso to successfully transport two ship-to-shore cranes via the Northern Sea Route.

Norwegian shipping company Farstad Shipping announced Thursday a planned restructuring deal with Siem has been ended by its creditors, calling into

A natural buffer zone of wind shear and cooler ocean temps has been found to form along the U.S. East Coast during periods of greater Atlantic hurricane

For the first time in nearly two decades Japanese shipbuilders have overtaken rivals in South Korea in terms of newbuild order backlog, industry data shows.

By Emmanuel Jarry PARIS, Jan 4 (Reuters) – A leading French minister expressed support on Wednesday for a bid by Italy’s Fincantieri’s for

A search team has located the wrecks of two Maersk Supply Service vessels which sank during a tow to a Turkish scrapyard late last month. The vessels are

SINGAPORE, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 tonnes of oil spilled into the narrow strait separating Singapore and Malaysia after a collision between two

Another great heavy seas video posted by Bigwavemaster1, who works on an Emergency Response & Rescue Vessel providing support to offshore oil platforms in

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hanjin Shipping Co. shares surged by their daily limit of 30 percent in Seoul after a local media report that the sale of

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Swim or sink: That’s the message shipping executives in Asia are taking into the new year. Faced with a prolonged trade

Check out this video posted to Facebook showing a New Year’s Eve incident in Australia involving an SUV that rolled right off the ramp of

By Joyce Lee and Emmanuel Jarry SEOUL/PARIS, Jan 3 (Reuters) – A South Korean court approved Italy’s Fincantieri on Tuesday as the preferred bidder

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Robert Lighthizer, an official in the Reagan

Congratulations, you’ve (almost) made it to 2017! As 2016 comes to end, we’re taking a look back at some of the top maritime stories making

The port of Antwerp says it expects to close 2016 a record volume of more than 214 million tonnes of freight handled helped by growing contain volume and

BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) – If people want to come and look at China’s first aircraft carrier, they are very welcome, the defence ministry said on

MILAN/SEOUL, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Italian shipbuilding and construction group Fincantieri SpA is the only bidder for shipping group STX France, a source

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Russia expanded its search on Monday for the remains of a military plane that crashed into the Black Sea,