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Houston headquartered Genesis Energy, L.P. announced today that it has agreed to acquire the Jones Act-qualifying MT American Phoenix and two related charters

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) together with BP announced Thursday a significant new oil discovery at the Guadalupe prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of

Some new video has popped up online showing a construction barge sinking on the Chicago River last Friday afternoon in the middle of downtown

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center says it has taken delivery of its newest research vessel and the vessel will be put to work

An investigation by the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch into a January 2014 collision between a Rickmers’ cargo ship and a crane barge in

A 55-foot tugboat towing an empty barge capsized and sank Wednesday night off of Point Judith, Rhode Island. All four people aboard the tug were rescued from

High-cost energy projects globally will struggle to stay profitable if crude oil prices stay around $80 a barrel to $85 a barrel and some proposed developments

U.S. Coast Guard marine investigators are trying to determine the cause of a collision between a passenger ferry and a commercial sailing vessel which occurred

British energy company BG Group is in talks with BP to link their two gas developments off Egypt's coast, as part of BG's drive to breathe life into its

With the huge influx of new steel heading into the offshore drilling market, Diamond Offshore Drilling announced today plans to retire and scrap six of their

A division of the Jones Act shipping company Matson has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $1 million in connection to last year's molasses

Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has hired a supertanker to load a second 2 million-barrel cargo of Algerian crude, according to preliminary tanker

Crowley Maritime Corp. has announced that VT Halter Marine, Inc. in Pascagoula, Mississippi has cut steel on the first of two new LNG-powered ConRo ships for

Strong winds generated by the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo in the North Atlantic caused a Stena Line ferry to break free from its moorings in Ireland with

A veteran captain of a Bald Head Island ferry was likely daydreaming when his vessel ran aground in December 2013 in North Carolina, injuring 14 people,

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is among liquefied natural gas developers applauding British Columbia’s plan to halve a proposed tax on multibillion-dollar projects

The crew of an Alaska state ferry came to the aid of a Canadian fisherman whose vessel had sunk off British Columbia early Saturday, but tragically two others

A Dutch cargo ship was adrift overnight in the North Sea after a small engine room fire disabled the vessel off Shetland's Fair

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has announced the development of a underwater robot for cleaning the hulls of ships. Think of it as a Roomba for

Nearly a year to the day after Edison Chouest’s supply vessel C-Retriever was hijacked and its captain and chief engineer kidnapped off Nigeria, a