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NANTES, France, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Egypt took delivery of a second French Mistral helicopter carrier on Friday, part of a $1 billion deal signed last

With entry into force of the IMO Ballast Water Convention now set for September 2017, owners have been calling on a Finnish naval architecture and marine

After a thorough evaluation process lasting more than two years, the U.S. Coast Guard has selected Eastern Shipbuilding Group of Panama City, Florida to design

By Tiffany Kary (Bloomberg) — Bankrupt Hanjin Shipping Co.’s efforts to unload vessels in the U.S. while it goes through bankruptcy in South Korea

By Jonathan Saul and Andreas Kröner LONDON/FRANKFURT, Sept 15 (Reuters) – German banks are struggling to recoup tens of billions of dollars of loans as

By David Yong (Bloomberg) — A Singapore-based shipping trust that operates container ships is asking creditors for leniency on about $253 million of

Super Typhoon Meranti was packing maximum sustained winds of 178 mph (155 knots) as it moved south of Taiwan early Wednesday morning. Although the island was

Finnish liquified natural gas distributor Skangas is claiming the world’s first ship-to-ship bunkering of LNG fuel in what it is calling a ‘new

By Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — It was always going to be tough for the world’s container shipping lines — accustomed to decade after decade

A safety study released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board details 14 conclusions and 21 recommendations aimed at further reducing the risk of

Huntington Ingalls’ Newport New Shipbuilding recently conducted a 900-ton superlift in the construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F.

By Nicholas Brautlecht (Bloomberg) — The collapse of Hanjin Shipping Co. will probably spark fresh consolidation among container lines as they attempt to

By Ron Bousso LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Maersk Oil, a unit of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk, has agreed to sell stakes in three North Sea

By Brenda Goh and Keith Wallis SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Three ships chartered to Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd have been sold and two more

By Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) — The Hanjin Shipping Co. terminal at South Korea’s largest port used to be one of the world’s busiest. Dozens of

1800UTZ By Florence Tan and Melanie Burton SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s commodities industry was preparing on Tuesday for

By Tracy Alloway and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — From Norway to the Bahamas, from Algeria to Australia. Ultra-low crude prices combined with cheap shipping

A crew member of an offshore supply vessel has died in Brazil after being hit with the waterjet shot from the vessel’s water cannon, Brazilian media has

By Rishaad Salamat and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The fall of South Korea’s biggest container line Hanjin Shipping Co. is similar to the 2008

One crew member was killed and four others were injured Tuesday in an accident during lifeboat drill aboard the world’s largest cruise ship. Royal