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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

By Corina Pons and Jonathan Saul PUERTO CABELLO, Venezuela/LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) – Venezuelan state agencies have run up close to $1 billion in

By Tom Wilson and Candido Mendes (Bloomberg) — Angola’s oil minister accused neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo’s government of wrecking an

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea’s biggest container carrier that’s part of the Hanjin Group, said it will work with

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released its report into the January 2015 sinking of the MV Cemfjord, finding that the incident was the result

By Guillermo Parra-Bernal SAO PAULO, April 20 (Reuters) – Shareholders in Sete Brasil Participações SA voted on Wednesday to allow the ailing rig

The world’s largest shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries is set to slash 10% of its workforce this year as part of the South Korean shipbuilding

Here’s a video showing the early model Boeing-built hydrofoil Tucumcari that served as the basis for the subsequent Pegasus-class patrol boats for the

By Fergus Jensen and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA, April 21 (Reuters) – Indonesia fears piracy on a shipping route along its sea border with the Philippines

By Nicholas Brautlecht (Bloomberg) — Hapag-Lloyd AG is in talks with United Arab Shipping Co. on a possible combination of their container businesses,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carriers CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen and OOCL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a

BEIJING, April 20 (Reuters) – China will encourage ships flying its flag to take the Northwest Passage via the Arctic Ocean, a route opened up by global

In a video that is both fascinating in its detail and utterly tragic, you can watch a recreation of the RMS Titanic sinking from its initial impact with the

The United Nations is investigating the sinking of an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean in what could be one of the worst tragedies involving refugees and

By Anna Shiryaevskaya, Harry R. Weber and Joao Lima (Bloomberg) — Within a decade of revolutionizing domestic natural gas markets, U.S. shale will for

By Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA, April 20 (Reuters) – Authorities from at least two Indonesian coal ports have blocked ships from leaving to the