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The Navy on Friday accepted delivery of the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the Navy’s next-generation multi-mission surface destroyers.

APL, the container shipping unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, says it has reduced its fleet’s carbon dioxide emissions by 45.5% in 2015

PARIS, May 20 (Reuters) – France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping firm, reported a first-quarter net loss on Friday

It is always a big financial decision to lay-up a vessel, and with market conditions these days it has become a more frequent occurrence, but how does it

The first of four 300 ton bollard pull, ultra-long distance towing and anchor handling vessels for ALP Maritime Service has been named at the Niigata

May 19 (Reuters) – Investment management firm EIG Management Co added Brazil’s engineering conglomerate Odebrecht SA and a few other shipyards in

The Panama Canal Authority has published the initial draft restrictions for neopanamax vessels ahead of next month’s opening of the expanded Panama Canal

A response is underway after a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker ran aground Tuesday off the coast of Uruguay near the resort city of Punta del

By Jiyeun Lee (Bloomberg) — The South Korean government’s push to restructure debt-laden companies is set to cost tens of thousands of workers their

Some new video released by the U.S. Navy gives a better look at when two Russian fighter jets made multiple low-altitude passes by the USS Donald Cook in

JERUSALEM, May 18 (Reuters) – Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had developed a version of its Iron Dome missile interceptor system that can

International offshore drilling contractor Ensco is planning to cut about 350 of offshore jobs as the company plans to stack more rigs amid the

Bourbon Offshore’s plan to diversify into the ethane gas market has been put on the back burner after the company failed to obtain financing for the

Looking into a career at sea? Your help is need now more than ever. That’s according to a new report by BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping,

The world’s largest cruise ship pulled into the Port of Southampton on Tuesday ahead of its maiden cruise later this month.  The Harmony of the Seas

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — Just four months after analysts warned of the “perfect storm” pummeling shares in A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, things

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – “Alliances are only as stable as their member carriers,” was maritime consultant Drewry’s first comment on plans

A solo sailor attempting to break a transatlantic record with his 21-foot sailboat had to be rescued by the Coast Guard just hours into his journey on Sunday.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Shell are continuing their response to the release of some 88,200 gallons of crude oil from a subsea flow line into the Gulf of

By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla., May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Coast Guard investigators on Monday resumed a probe of last year’s deadly sinking of the El