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Japan is sitting out the whaling season after a setback at the International Court of Justice last

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five people Friday from a luxury sailboat belonging to prominent Pinterest investor Brian Cohen after the sailboat's carbon fiber

Race organizers of the “Microtransat” apparently got the response they were looking for from the IMO and French Coastguard.  Their race across

ABB reports today they will be supplying the electrical propulsion systems for the four new LNG carriers that were ordered from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding

PT Meratus Line is most certainly one of the worst maritime shipping companies in the world, and Australia has had enough of their inability to properly

There are plenty available as some of the industry’s largest names try to sell aging, costly wells that have become even less profitable with the plunge in

On January 31st, the above-pictured 50,000 ton deadweight, dynamically-positioned (DP) semi-submersible heavy lift vessel departed CIMC Raffles shipyard for

Hiroshige Tanioka, an executive of Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, aka K-Line, pleaded guilty last week and was sentenced to 18 months in

Norwegian offshore supply vessel operator Deep Sea Supply reports today two of their 2014-built platform supply vessels,  Sea Tortuga and Sea Triumph, have

Carnival Corporation endeavored to entice the hundreds of millions of people watching the Super Bowl to head “Back to the Sea,” via a

Chevron Corp. halted share buybacks, slowed work on new projects and announced the biggest spending cut in more than a decade as oil explorers around the world

A volunteer RNLI crew member from Mumbles lifeboat station thought a helicopter rescue exercise was a good time to pop the question to his now-fiancée. Here

Cuba's improved relations with the United States could lead to a more rapid expansion of the port upon which the country has staked much of its economic

After running aground 8 days ago off the east coast of Okinawa, Japan, plans to salvage Military Sealift Command’s USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak (T-AK 3005) are

While Greece's new leftist government seems set on a collision course with the European Union, it is likely to steer clear of confronting the country's

Japanese shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. says it has secured newbuilding orders for 11 containerships with a TEU capacity of 20,000, marking the

Russian state-controlled oil company Rosneft will not be able to resume drilling in the Kara Sea this year after Western sanctions halted its cooperation with

Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has been getting a serious amount of boxes checked off lately while operating in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico.  Within the span

Port of Long Beach Chief Executive Jon Slangerup on Thursday unveiled his plan to tackle unprecedented congestion issues that have plagued the port over the

The Malaysian government has recovered a missing tanker and captured nine suspected pirates just one day after the ship went missing in the waters near