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Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) says it has received notice from ConocoPhillips about its intention to enter into a contract for a

By Hashem Kalantari (Bloomberg) — Iran, holder of the world’s biggest natural gas reserves, boosted output by inaugurating six projects at the

By Jung Park and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s largest shipbuilder, won a reprieve

Today, April 14, 2017, marks exactly 105 years since the infamous RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic,

A crew member of a tugboat operating in New York Harbor lost part of his arm in an unfortunate line-handling accident on Thursday night about a half-mile from

By Melissa Fares NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) – Renata Rojas has longed to visit the wreck of the Titanic since she was a girl, years before the

By Dominique Patton and Sue-Lin Wong BEIJING/PYONGYANG, April 14 (Reuters) – China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from

E-cigarettes, vapes, vaporizers, those things you see people puffing down on just about anywhere that smell like cherries. Call them what you will, just

Crude oil production in U.S. federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) set an annual high of 1.6 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2016, surpassing the

The biggest ship ever to visit the U.S. East Coast will make its maiden call in Charleston, South Carolina next month after sailing through the expanded Panama

A very large crude carrier belonging to Belgian tanker company Euronav ran aground Wednesday while carrying a cargo of crude oil through the Java Sea, but

SUNY Maritime College will recognize one of the most prominent women in the maritime industry with an honorary doctorate during its May 2017 commencement

By Lisa Ferdinando (DoD News) – As a unique instrument of national security, the U.S. Coast Guard works in a broad spectrum of areas to secure

Russia’s largest shipping company SCF Group has selected Swiss-headquartered Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) to provide the duel-fuel engines for the

By Scott DiSavino April 12 (Reuters) – U.S. energy firms are scrambling to finish a slew of pipelines that will unleash rich reserves of shale gas in

By Mathew Carr and Kelly Gilblom (Bloomberg) — Relying on natural gas to fuel Europe’s second-largest economy was never going to be easy for the U.K.,

Just two weeks after the delivery of the first containership to surpass the 20,000 TEU mark, the record for the world’s largest containership

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The recent recovery in the containership charter market has come too late to save panamax shipowner Rickmers Maritime

Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) says it has inked a new 30-month agreement to extend its business alliance BP, the largest energy investor in deepwater Gulf of

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) – The introduction of physical customs checks following Brexit would be a catastrophe for British ports and