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In response to a staggering number of boat migrants rescued and killed in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, International Maritime Organization (IMO)

While U.S. drilling on land has fallen along with the price of crude, the risky and expensive drive to pull oil from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico is

The West Coast ports of the U.S. are headed for paralysis as a contract dispute between management and unionized dockworkers spills onto the docks from San

Antwerp’s Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV has announced an order for a unique self-propelled DP2 crane ship with 4,000 ton lifting capacity

Qatar Gas Transport Co (Nakilat), one of the world's largest shippers of liquefied natural gas, reported a 14 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit on

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Senator Heidi Heitkamp, today joined with 19 of their Senate

Seventeen months after steel was first cut at Nordic Yards, the naming ceremony for two identical ice-breaking rescue and salvage vessels has taken place

The U.K Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) reports the grounded DFDS cargo ship Lysblink Seaway has spilled an undefined quantity of diesel oil from

Production from Statoil’s Gudrun field has been halted after a hydrocarbon leak was discovered yesterday, according to Norway’s Petroleum Safety

Danish shipping company D/S Norden has renegotiated charter agreements for nine vessels with their Japanese owners in reaction to record low dry bulk freight

It was a high-speed chase of sorts off the coast of Mumbai Tuesday when the Indian Coast Guard chased down and intercepted a Russian cargo ship trying to flee

Miami-based Carnival Corp. announced Wednesday an $85 million expansion at the Dominican Republic's Amber Cove port, marking the biggest single cruise industry

DFDS Seaways’ cargo ship Lysblink Seaways has run aground on the west coast of Scotland today.  The incident occurred at approximately 1:50AM local

India is tripling its fleet of nuclear submarines in the country’s priciest naval expansion in five years, a move that comes as China increases naval

A German shipping company and the chief engineer of a car carrier it operated have been charged with environmental crimes in two separate cases in Alaska and

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, hit another record low on Wednesday as demand for

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) provided another update Wednesday on their investigation into the tragic sinking of the MV Cemfjord just

Maersk Drilling has announced that its third and final XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jack-up has been delivered ahead of schedule by Keppel FELS shipyard

Crowley Maritime’s international ship management venture, Crowley Accord Management Pvt. Ltd., has been awarded full technical management contracts for

A sixth victim of last week's deadly explosion on a Petrobras offshore oil and natural gas production ship has been