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Dutch shipyard Ferus Smit has announced the delivery of the MV Greenland, a cement carrier that not holds the title as world’s LNG-powered dry cargo

On December 12th, 2015 the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer the Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) was launched from Pascagoula, Mississippi. The guided missile destroyer is

By Paul Tugwell and Georgios Georgiou (Bloomberg) — Cyprus’s target to increase the contribution that shipping makes to its economy by around two

By Valerie Volcovici and Catherine Ngai Dec 23 (Reuters) – U.S. energy group Enterprise and oil trader Vitol raced to exploit the end of a 40-year ban on

Dec 24 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, edged higher on

Delivered in October, the Atlantic Star is the first of five new ‘G4’ ro-ro/containerships (ConRo) for Atlantic Container Line (ACL)

Jones Act shipbuilder Philly Shipyard says it has delivered the second of four LNG-ready product tankers to Crowley Maritime Corporation, marking the first new

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” This seems to aptly sum up the two halves of 2015 for container lines, which began the year with

By Dan Murtaugh and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — It took years to lift a ban on most U.S. oil exports. It took a week for the first shipment to

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Peel Ports, one of Britain’s largest port operators, expects to withstand the container shipping slump

(Ship and Bunker) — Alongside news that the CMA CGM S.A. (CMA CGM) 18,000 TEU Benjamin Franklin will become the largest containership to call at any U.S.

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Cosco Corp. Singapore Ltd., the shipbuilding arm of China Ocean Shipping Group, is exploring options to support its

TOKYO, Dec 23 (Reuters) – A Chinese coastguard ship equipped with what appeared to be four gun turrets was sighted near disputed islands in the East

Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC launched the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1 this past Saturday at their shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands

A delayed opening of the Panama Canal expansion past the April 2016 deadline is looking more and more likely as 2015 comes to a close and work continues

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, further reduced spending plans for this year and 2016 as it

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) — Poland’s Port of Gdansk Authority is to tender for a new container and general cargo deepwater port able to

International tanker owner and operator Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (Navios Acquisition) is proving that it’s a good time to be in the

By James Regan SYDNEY, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Australia approved on Tuesday a controversial expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal, which

By Tim Loh, Christine Buurma and Harry R. Weber (Bloomberg) — For years, U.S. gas companies looking to export liquefied natural gas dreamed of a booming