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SAO PAULO, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Ecovix Engevix Construções Oceánicas SA and five subsidiaries have filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal

Danish shipping giant Maersk Line has announced plans to scrap eight panamax ships at yards in India and China. The world’s largest container shipping

More than 500 ships have now transited the expanded Panama Canal less than six months after the inauguration of the new locks on June 26, 2016. The Panama

Denmark’s Environmental Minister has come under fire for failing to provide concrete answers to questions regarding the Danish government’s position on

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has completed its review of the proposed vessel-sharing alliance “THE Alliance”, allowing the grouping

California Governor Jerry Brown is calling on President Barack Obama to use his authority to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas leasing in federal

By Ting Shi, David Tweed and Aibing Guo (Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for top U.S. diplomat comes with Chinese geopolitical

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – News that their cargo may be loaded onto Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) vessels has angered customers of the 2M Alliance.

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — China appears to be deploying weapons systems on all seven of the reefs it has reclaimed in the South China Sea,

Check out this latest vlog from Youtuber JeffHK as his ship runs into some weather during a recent voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. If you haven’t seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMDw3ncytY I heard on the news it was cold in the Great Lakes, but I had no idea it was this cold. Actually I just looked at

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. oil and gas industry on Wednesday welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of former Texas Governor

The European Union is marking eight years of counter-piracy naval operations off the coast of Somalia protecting World Food Programme vessels and international

The project to convert two passenger ferries into the world’s largest emission-free ferries is gaining pace after Öresund Dry Docks of Sweden was selected

Dec 14 (Reuters) – Oilfield services company John Wood Group Plc’s CFO David Kemp said on Wednesday that the company showed modest recovery in some

South Korean shipbuilder Hyunday Heavy Industries confirmed Wednesday that Chevron has cancelled a $1.8 billion (2.1 trillion won) order for a floating

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Cyber crime is likely to delay the introduction of autonomous ships for several years – and it could pose a

With the NTSB’s release of the El Faro’s VDR transcripts by the NTSB on Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard has scheduled its third and final round of

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry will hit a credit crunch if proposed new bank capital rules are implemented in a

The 500-page transcript from the El Faro’s voyage data recorder bridge audio was released Tuesday along with four other factual reports added to the NTSB’s