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The U.S. Coast Guard and California Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response are investigating an oil spill from a Bahamas-flagged car

March 15 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities were up on Tuesday

Farrell Lines, a subsidiary of the Maersk Line, Limited, and a subcontractor have paid about $3.66 million in civil fines for submitting

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced that it has delivered the fuel-efficient AIDAprima cruise ship to AIDA Cruises at a ceremony held at Nagasaki

The Indonesian Navy and Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries on Monday proudly blew up the illegal fishing vessel Viking in the shallow waters just the

A Belgian court has sentenced a former Somali pirate kingpin to 20 years in prison over the 2009 hijacking of a Belgian ship off the coast of Somali. Mohamed

Norwegian shipyard Kleven Verft on Saturday celebrated the launch of its build no. 370 today, a 116-meter long Expedition Support Vessel for New Zealand

A simulation study on the operational and financial impacts of ‘megaships’ with a carrying capacity of more than 18,000 TEU on lines,

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — From the shores of Savannah, Georgia, to the Beaufort, North Carolina beachfront, coastal communities in conservative

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) – A second body was recovered in the Hudson River on Sunday a day after a tugboat collided with a barge and sank at

Sunoco Logistics reported that the first tanker carrying Marcellus Shale ethane to Europe from the U.S. was loaded at its Marcus Hook Industrial Complex. The

NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) – A tugboat crew member died and two others were missing on Saturday after the vessel collided with a barge and sank in the

A grand jury in Seattle has indicted two shipping companies and two engineers for crimes related to the illegal discharge of oily wastewater from the

By Gavin van Marle, (The Loadstar) – Project logistics and out-of-gauge cargo are the latest specialist shipping targets of container lines looking for

By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) — BP Plc won total dismissal of claims by energy and oilfield service companies for

Written by Joshua Nash, SafeGuard Armor The threat of Piracy is a serious one for many countries, and one that has been taken increasingly seriously. From

Some scary video shows the moment a search and rescue helicopter crashed into the sea while responding to a grounded containership in Taiwan.  The

By Colin Simpson (Bloomberg) — A new Chinese shipping index that tracks freight movements among the countries on the route of one of President Xi

Japanese classification society ClassNK has received U.S. Coast Guard authorization to participate in the Coast Guard’s Alternate Compliance Program

The Suez Canal Authority has fired back against news reports claiming that vessels are now changing their routes to around the southern tip of Africa due to