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Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has introduced a gas-fueled version of its Wärtsilä 31 marine engine, which is recognized by Guinness World Records as

A European Union naval force warship has captured six suspected pirates following alleged attacks on a containership and a fishing vessel off the coast of

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov 19 (Reuters) – A storm on Sunday complicated efforts to find an Argentine navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic with

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, USS Benfold,, sustained slight damage when a Japanese tug drifted into it during a towing

American maritime companies are continuing to provide beefed-up shipping services to Puerto Rico to ensure essential relief and commercial cargoes can reach

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has unveiled plans to leverage aerial drones for carrying out ship inspections beginning as soon as early next

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has issued a warning to shippers about using unlicensed companies providing ocean shipping services following a number of

Oil and gas production from deepwater projects in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is critical to the Trump Administration’s goal of energy dominance, according

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has released its annual overview of marine casualties and incidents involving European-registered ships for the year

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 17 (Reuters) – An Argentine military submarine with 44 crew members on board was missing at sea in the South Atlantic on Friday,

By Laura Blewitt and Amy Stillman (Bloomberg) — Mexico is scouring the earth to stock up on diesel fuel before market-liberalization measures take

The hull of Acta Marine’s new Walk-to-Work vessel, Acta Auriga, has arrived at Ulstein Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway where the final construction phase will

SINGAPORE, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Singapore has suspended trade relations with North Korea, the latest of Pyongyang’s major trade partners to cut

A Spanish court has ordered a British P&I insurer to pay a whopping $1 billion fine over the 2002 Prestige oil spill.  The single-hulled oil tanker

Dutch marine services company HEBO is getting ready to add its biggest sheerleg crane to its fleet with an impressive lifting capacity of 900 tons and a high

Tanker company TORM has announced its plan to list its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market in New York, which TORM expects to complete before the end of 2017.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a death aboard a Panama-flagged tanker moored in Richmond, California. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard said that

Captain Paul Watson from the controversial marine conservation group Sea Shepherd says that a lack of resources and technology compared to the Japanese whalers

A new search and rescue vessel being built for the Turkish Coast Guard has successfully passed its capsize test with its engines running, marking a first for

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – In the clearest sign yet that the lingering effects of the 2009 global financial crisis on the shipping industry