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[SPONSORED] While in Tokyo at Sea Japan the other week, I met up with Peter Broadhurst, Vice President at Inmarsat Maritime who was introducing a new service

A day after dry bulk shipper Genco Shipping announced filing for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) continues to fall further. At 930

By Megha Rajagopalan QINGDAO, China, April 22 (Reuters) – Countries embroiled in territorial rows in the East and South China Seas agreed on Tuesday to

By Narae Kim and Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, April 22 (Reuters) – The first distress call from a sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking

Three crewmembers from a 587-foot cargo ship were injured Sunday afternoon after the vessel was reportedly struck by a large wave about 500 miles south of

By Dawn McCarty April 21 (Bloomberg) — Peter Georgiopoulos’s Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd., an operator of dry-bulk cargo ships, filed for

Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio has formally appointed Amy Beavers, Vice President of Regulatory Compliance at Florida-based maritime school Maritime

“Rob are you ok?” Four years ago today, a friend of mine woke me up with those words. He was referring to the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which

South Korean prosecutors investigating a ferry disaster said on Sunday they would seek to extend the detention of the ship's captain and two other crew by 10

An unmanned submarine on its seventh dive for the missing Flight MH370 may complete its mission in the southern Indian Ocean within a week, said the Australian

Built by Arctech Helsinki for the Russian Ministry of Transport, Baltika is the world’s first icebreaker built with an asymmetrical hull which allows it

Tsuneishi Group (ZHOUSHAN) Shipbuilding has received newbuild orders this week for four 1,020 TEU containerships from the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of

By Jonathan Saul and Freya Berry LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) – Shipping companies are turning to equity markets to fill a growing funding gap, betting

Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) announced today that the portion of it’s common stock owned by U.S. citizens stands at 77 percent as of 15 April 2014.

By Mike Wackett Bigger and bigger ships operating at slower and slower speeds across the tradelanes of the world are testament to the single-minded desire of

SANTIAGO/FRANKFURT, April 16 (Reuters) – Chilean shipper Compania SudAmericana de Vapores on Wednesday said it has signed a binding deal with

As a strong cold front rolled through the east coast of the United States yesterday, bringing with it wind gusts of up to 70 mph off Cape Henry, merchant

A collaboration between ClassNK, one of the world’s top classification societies, and NAPA, the Finnish naval architecture software powerhouse has led to

The following image shows the shipbreaking yards at Alang, an industrial complex north of Mumbai in the Gulf of Khambhat. Photo taken from space via Digital

The 1992-built ConRo vessel M/V Repubblica di Roma, owned by the Grimaldi Group caught fire last week and its current status is unknown this morning. These