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Monday, February 2, 2015
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Colombian Floating LNG Startup Uncertain Says Pacific Rubiales

Pacific Rubiales, forced by low oil prices to delay the start-up of its Colombia liquefied natural gas plant, said it was impossible to predict when exports

February 2, 2015
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Shell Plans to Start Decommissiong North Sea Brent Delta Platform

Oil company Shell intends to start a 10-year process to dismantle and remove one of Britain's oldest and biggest oil platforms, Brent Delta, the company said

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 117

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Oil Workers Strike Seen Prolonging U.S. Refinery Repairs During Breakdowns

The biggest U.S. oil workers strike since 1980 will probably prolong time needed to make repairs after mechanical breakdowns, even as most refineries continue

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 31

Japanese Operator to Pay $1.8 Million Over ‘Magic Pipe’
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Japanese Operator to Pay $1.8 Million Over ‘Magic Pipe’

The operator of a car carrier calling at Port of Baltimore has plead guilty and was sentenced to pay $1.8 million over charges stemming from the use of a

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 52

Grounded Cargo Ship to Be Scuttled Off Galápagos Islands
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Grounded Cargo Ship to Be Scuttled Off Galápagos Islands

An Ecuador-flagged cargo ship which ran aground last week in the Galápagos islands will be towed out to sea and scuttled, according to government officials in

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 86

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Baltic Dry Index Slides to Lowest Level since 1986

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, continued its slide on Monday, hitting a new

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 30

Sea Shepherd Ship Bob Barker collides with the refueling tanker Sun Laurel February 25, 2013 in the Southern Ocean REUTERS/The Institute of Cetacean Research/Handout
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In Whale War Ceasefire, Sea Shepherd Activists Hunt a New Target

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 107

Pinterest Investor Loses Luxury Catamaran Off North Carolina Coast, Five Rescued
Shipping News

Pinterest Investor Loses Luxury Catamaran Off North Carolina Coast, Five Rescued

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 212

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Mariners Take Aim at Autonomous Sailing “Buoy”

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 140

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Engineering News

ABB to Provide Power and Propulsion to Chinese-Built LNG Carriers

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 120

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Australia Puts Giant Dunce Cap on PT Meratus Line

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 219

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Want to Buy an Oil Well in the UK North Sea?

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 438

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CIMC Raffles-Built Heavy Lift Transporter Heads to Sea Trials

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 52

K-Line Executive Sentenced to 18-Months in U.S. Prison
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K-Line Executive Sentenced to 18-Months in U.S. Prison

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 79

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Deep Sea Supply Wins Long Term PSV Charters

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

February 2, 2015
Total Views: 43

Sunday, February 1, 2015
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Carnival Corporation Launches First-Ever Super Bowl Ad

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

February 1, 2015
Total Views: 86

Saturday, January 31, 2015
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Chevron Tightens Belt as $40 Billion Makeover Sweeps Oil Sector

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

January 31, 2015
Total Views: 31

Video: RNLI Helicopter Rescue Training Marriage Proposal
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Video: RNLI Helicopter Rescue Training Marriage Proposal

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

January 31, 2015
Total Views: 15

Odebrecht Sees Cuba’s Mariel Port Expanding Sooner with Better U.S. Ties
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Odebrecht Sees Cuba’s Mariel Port Expanding Sooner with Better U.S. Ties

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

January 31, 2015
Total Views: 63

Friday, January 30, 2015
USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak (T-AK 3005)
Marine Salvage

SMIT and Nippon Contracted to Salvage Grounded MSC Ship

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

January 30, 2015
Total Views: 117