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Norsafe, a leading supplier of marine safety equipment, is happy to announce that it has reclaimed the world record for highest freefall lifeboat drop... and

When geologist Robert Ryan started his career in the 1970s, 600 feet was considered “deep water,” shale was useless rock and oil didn’t

New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf International Marine confirmed rumors Thursday that it has acquired all assets and business of rival Abdon Callais Offshore. The

Sembcorp Marine on Thursday said it has secured a $346 million contract to build a second semisubmersible well intervention rig for Helix Energy Solutions

New company, DNV GL, will be operational beginning September 12,

The port of Miami, the world’s largest cruise-ship hub, is selling a record $389 million of debt to boost its cargo business as the Panama Canal

As the monsoon in the NW Indian Ocean begins to subside and the weather once again becomes conducive to the operation of small pirate skiffs, the ICC

Tropical Storm Gabrielle regenerated and took aim at Bermuda on Tuesday while Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened on the cusp of becoming the season's first

The cost of hauling iron ore is poised to rise to a three-year high after shipments to China expanded to a record, boosting returns for Nippon Yusen K.K. and

Frontline 2012, the consolidating offshoot of John Fredriksen's tanker company Frontline Ltd., has taken delivery of the first vessel out of five dozen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined units of Royal Dutch Shell more than $1 million over violations of the company’s Clean Air Act permits

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Iran has released an Indian crude oil tanker that was detained last month over pollution concerns, an Indian shipping official said

Athens-based shipping company TOP Ships Inc. (Nasdaq: TOPS) has announced that it has entered into agreements to sell its fleet of six vessels to pay down debt

An attack by assailants on a container ship in the Suez canal has heightened risks for merchant shipping using the vital waterway, with further threats

A look at the rise and rapid fall of Eike Batista's Brazilian

The world's first offshore-moored floating, storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU), the FSRU Toscana, has been successfully delivered and permanently moored

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Wednesday held Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 233, which offered up

Nigeria’s navy killed six pirates and injured one other in a gun battle late Sunday off the coast of Calabar in Nigerian and Cameroonian

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, also known as pirate fishing, is a massive problem across the globe. Editorial by National Geographic's

More than 153 years after it was lost in a violent collision at sea, government and university maritime archaeologists have identified the wreck of the ship