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The world’s most popular ride sharing app is expanding its ever-growing modes of transportation to include luxury yachts. Silicon Valley-based Uber has

Oregon State University is looking for a shipbuilder to construct a new 193-foot research vessel to add to the U.S. academic and marine science research fleet.

Investigators will need to launch a new mission to recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder found Tuesday at a depth of 15,000 off the Bahamas. The

Norwegian marine services group Østensjø Rederi AS has christened their new offshore construction vessel, Edda Freya, featuring a hybrid diesel-electric

Italy has become the latest Flag State to approve the use of ADMIRALTY e-Nautical Publications (e-NPs) and ADMIRALTY Digital Publications (ADP) as

By Jonas Cho Walsgard (Bloomberg) — Shipping is about to lead a recovery in global offshore markets that have been battered by plunging oil prices,

The United Nations Security Council has called for a comprehensive regional framework to eradicate piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea,

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Statoil ASA, Norway’s biggest oil company, bought a 50 percent stake in EON SE’s Arkona offshore wind farm, entering

By Colin Packham, Nobuhiro Kubo and Tim Kelly SYDNEY/TOKYO, April 26 (Reuters) – France has beaten Japan and Germany to win a A$50 billion ($40 billion)

Some scary footage posted online shows the moment a ship pilot falls into the water during a boarding in rough seas. The footage was posted by the facebook

Edda Accommodation says it has decided to cancel its order for a newbuild accommodation vessel at Hyundai Heavy Industries due to extensive delays. 

By Heejin Kim and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea said it will take more active steps to help the nation’s shipping and shipbuilding industries

A Russian oil tanker caught fire in the Caspian Sea on Saturday killing one crew member. The Ministry of Emergency Situations in Azerbaijan confirmed the

In what could be considered the deal of the century, international offshore drilling contractor Ocean Rig has purchased an advanced ultra deepwater drillship

By Josh Wingrove and Jeremy van Loon (Bloomberg) — Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline may get a new lease on life as the Canadian government

By Justin Bachman (Bloomberg) — In January 1966, the first ship carrying “citizen-explorers” arrived in Antarctica. At the time, only a handful of

A Norwegian supply vessel has located and recovered the 19-foot boat belonging to two Florida teens who went missing at sea last summer. The U.S. Coast Guard

Hard to port! Hard to

Today’s ship photos show the Taranaki Sun, one of three new ocean going tankers that are the first ever to run on clean-burning methanol. The vessels,

By Marc Frank HAVANA, April 22 (Reuters) – Cuba said on Friday it would lift a ban on Cuban-born citizens entering and leaving the Caribbean island by