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The U.S. maritime industry now employees nearly 650,000 Americans with jobs across all 50 states and contributes $154 billion to the nation’s economic

“Empowering Women in the Maritime Community” has been selected as the World Maritime Day theme for 2019. This video from the IMO Secretary-General,

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – High capacity and low demand will leave ocean carriers on Asia-North Europe routes in a tight spot, with analysts

Note: The following Findings of Concern is being distributed by the U.S. Coast Guard following the February 2017 loss of the FV Destination in the

Maersk Tankers will invest in four scrubber systems to be installed on selected LR2 vessels in the Maersk Product Tanker fleet before January 2020. The

By Karol Witenberg GDANSK, March 4 (Reuters) – Poland is pressing ahead with plans to dig a waterway across a narrow strip of land that separates its

By Jamie Freed AVALON, Australia March 4 (Reuters) – Major global defense contractors want to sell Australia on cutting-edge technology such as

By Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are close to a trade deal that could lift most or all U.S. tariffs as long as Beijing follows

  By Alison Bevege SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) – Australia is sending more help to the Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands to stop oil from a

An environmental disaster has been unfolding in the Solomon Islands this week after a grounded bulk carrier there is reported to have leaked tonnes of heavy

By Julie Ingwersen and Karl Plume – March 1 (Reuters) – Flooding and ice buildup on key rivers in the U.S. Midwest has stalled the movement of

PARIS, March 1 (Reuters) – French container shipping group CMA CGM booked record revenue in 2018 as trans-Pacific goods traffic remained buoyant despite

Crews have started removing fuel from the Turkish cargo ship Efe Murat which washed ashore along a breakwater in Bari, Italy during a storm last week.

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) – Britain has paid out 33 million pounds ($43.7 million) to settle a claim with Eurotunnel which runs the Channel Tunnel

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday it is offering up to six million barrels of sweet crude oil

Update: New Video Shows Russian Cargo Ship’s Busan Mayhem The Korean Coast Guard is investigation the allision of a Russian cargo ship with a bridge

Expedition cruise company Lindblad Expeditions (NASDAQ: LIND) announced the signing of an agreement with Norwegian shipbuilder and designer Ulstein to build a

ATHENS, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Hellenic Petroleum, Greece’s biggest oil refiner, said on Thursday that two of its three refineries are already

by Sabina Zawadzki (Reuters) – Russian gas producer Novatek wants to use nuclear icebreakers to keep the Northern Sea Route, a shipping path traversing

By David Wethe and Alix Steel (Bloomberg) — Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said it’s nearly doubling rental rates for deepwater drillships as oil