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European shipowners are speaking up in support of responsible ship recycling in Alang, India and the decision by several large shipowners to begin testing

The damaged Great Lakes freight MV Roger Blough was cleared over the weekend to transit down the St. Marys River en route to a shipyard in Sturgeon Bay,

A 230-foot long replica of Noah’s Ark collided with a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel as it arrived in Oslo, Norway on Friday, causing damage to both

By Dan Murtaugh and James Paton (Bloomberg) — It’s longer than three soccer fields, heavier than two aircraft carriers and powerful enough to chill gas

A post-panamax bulk carrier became the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal’s new locks on Thursday, kicking off a series of trial runs ahead

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) Maersk Line has responded to criticism from an environmental group accusing it of using flags of convenience to bypass EC

A Panamanian-flagged tanker averted potential disaster overnight after the vessel developed a crack in its hull in the Arabian Gulf off India. The Indian

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The world’s three biggest shipyards, battered by the deepest industry slump in at least two decades, are getting a

By Michael McDonald and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — Panama said it expects 20 million tons of liquefied natural gas to pass through its canal annually

PARIS, June 9 (Reuters) – A second ship equipped with specialist search devices will join the hunt for the “black box” flight recorders and

By Jeb Blount SAO JOAO DA BARRA, Brazil, June 8 (Reuters) – The launch this week of Prumo Logistica’s $3.7 billion Port of Açu, the largest in

The Port of Long Beach has welcomed into service the first of two new state-of-the-art fireboats that will the port help become more ‘big ship’

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The world’s three biggest shipyards plan to raise a combined 8.41 trillion won ($7.3 billion) selling assets as part of

This video was actually uploaded last December but is just now going viral thanks to Reddit. The video shows the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Protector-class

By Nikita Mathur and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., South Korea’s second-biggest shipping company, fell the most in three

U.S. shipbuilders and the greater maritime industry are fighting back against an amendment offered to a draft Puerto Rico debt relief bill currently

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s prosecutors raided the offices of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. as the world’s

A handful of shipping industry leaders have teamed up in a joint project to develop a dry bulk carrier concept that uses LNG as a fuel. The project, dubbed

The 13,900 tonne topside for the Ivar Aasen project is on its way to Norway after construction was completed at a shipyard in Singapore. The platform deck was

SAO JOAO DA BARRA, Brazil, June 7 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp plans to sign a five-year agreement to lease berthing space for its vessels from U.S. oil