Press Releases

COSCO-owned shipyards won $300 million in newbuild orders today from European and Asian shipowners to build one accommodation barge and seven bulk carriers.

Kenyan police on Tuesday seized 341.7 kg of heroin hidden in the diesel tank of a ship, the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the Indian Ocean port of

Changes to refinery practices, increased slow steaming and controls on sulphur content mean fuel testing and treatment is critical to efficient operations

Subsea 7 announced today they have exercised a contractual option to extend its existing charter of the 98-meter offshore construction vessel, Havila Subsea

PRESS RELEASE – Tokyo – Leading classification society ClassNK announced today that it had released amendments to its Rules and Guidance for the Survey

Wilhelmsen Marine Fuels, a subsidiary of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, has been acquired by OW Bunker and will be fully integrated as a wholly owned subsidiary

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment and OSV operator Topaz Energy and Marine announced this week the signing of a multi-million dollar, 10-year combined fixed price

North American Marine Environment Protection Association’s (NAMEPA) Executive Director, Carleen Lyden-Kluss, Awarded the United States Coast Guard’s Public

HAMILTON, Bermuda–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE:ASC) (“Ardmore” or the “Company”) today announced the

PRESS RELEASE – Thome Ship Management has strengthened its senior management tier by appointing Mr Steen Nygaard Madsen as Chief Operating Officer (COO)

PRESS RELEASE – Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE: SFL) today announced the agreement to acquire two 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax dry-bulk carriers built

350 km above the Arctic Circle, in Tromsø, Norway, industry, government, and academic leaders met for Cooperation 66° North. The forum, designed to foster

SINGAPORE – The United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation (USMMAAF) Singapore Chapter celebrated its two year anniversary

PRESS RELEASE – With new stringent sulphur oxide (SOx) emission regulations due to be enforced from January 2015, Finnlines has ordered Wärtsilä

PRESS RELEASE – The Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR), the US-based manager of the Liberian Registry, has appointed Robert

PRESS RELEASE – Seagull has released the Bulker Industry Training Standard (BITS), a predefined competence management system for the dry bulk industry.

Swiber International Pte. Ltd. and Swiber Offshore Construction Pte. Ltd. announced on 25 April the incorporation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary in Mexico,

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its wholly owned subsidiary, FELS Offshore Pte Ltd, has signed a management services agreement with

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a run of orders for bulk versions of its cargo handling cranes from five Chinese shipyards. The cranes are destined for 15

By David Stringer (Bloomberg) – Leaning on a window ledge of a Boeing Co. (BA) P-8A Poseidon, U.S. Navy aircrewman David Everly peered over the Indian