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Antwerp’s Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV has announced an order for a unique self-propelled DP2 crane ship with 4,000 ton lifting capacity

Seventeen months after steel was first cut at Nordic Yards, the naming ceremony for two identical ice-breaking rescue and salvage vessels has taken place

Danish shipping company D/S Norden has renegotiated charter agreements for nine vessels with their Japanese owners in reaction to record low dry bulk freight

A German shipping company and the chief engineer of a car carrier it operated have been charged with environmental crimes in two separate cases in Alaska and

Crowley Maritime’s international ship management venture, Crowley Accord Management Pvt. Ltd., has been awarded full technical management contracts for

ENI’s Goliat FPSO, sitting atop the world’s largest heavy lift vessel Dockwise Vanguard, has just begun its 60-day voyage from Hyundai Heavy

The first oil shipment from Iran’s floating oil storage unit (FSU), Khalij-e-Fars has recently just been completed, according to the Iranian Offshore Oil

Hamburg Süd’s acquisition of Chilean container shipper Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica S.A. (CCNI) is nearly complete today with the

A Taiwanese ship captain has been fined over USD$6,000 for navigating his vessel through an area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park without a

The expected APL Logistics deal value is far higher than the $750 million to $900 million range that sources said Singapore-based NOL had been looking for.

The captain of a passenger ferry has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years in jail for his role in the fatal 2012 Lamma ferry disaster

An Australia-bound father and son duo had to be rescued from their disabled 43-foot sailboat off the coast of Nantucket on Sunday amid the brutal winter storm

Firefighters in Oakland battled a two-alarm blaze in the superstructure of a cargo ship berthed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday evening. The fire was reported

A U.S. West Coast port strike is pushing up shipping freight rates as delays in offloading and taking on new cargo mean container ships are unavailable for

Italy's coast guard went to the rescue of at least 1,000 migrants in difficulty in the sea between Europe and North Africa on Sunday, the third operation of

The U.S. Coast Guard sole heavy icebreaker is continuing to respond to a 207-foot fishing vessel stuck in ice off Antarctica, battling snow, wind, large

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, has reported operating loss of KRW 3.25 trillion in 2014, or about USD $2.96

International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Robert McEllrath has released a strongly-worded video message to the ILWU membership on

Bill "Engineer Guy" Hammack shares some fascinating images and information about the RMS Titanic learned from the 1909 to 1911 editions of the Journal The

“I was on a flight back from SFO to LAX on February 9th and we flew over the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach before turning in to