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Crowley Maritime Corp. has announced the recent launch the Ocean Wave, the first of four Ocean Class tugboats under construction at Bollinger Shipyards in

Deep Sea Metro has taken delivery of the newbuild drillship Deepsea Metro II from Hyundai Heaby Industries, according to a statment released by the company. 

Horizon Lines said today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with all of the remaining shippers that accused the comapny of price fixing rates and

The entire gCaptain team is converging on New Orleans this evening for this week’s International Workboat Show, so unfortunately we haven’t been

We were happy to hear over the weekend that the Italian cargo ship MV Rosalia D’Amato had been released by Somali pirates with a full and safe crew.  At

The hijacked cargo ship M/V Rosalia D’Amato and her crew of 21 has been released from pirate control according to several sources.  The 74,500 tonne

Maritime New Zealand said today it will conduct an investigation into 21 containers containing dangerous goods on board the stricken M/V Rena that were not

SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–Grand China Logistics Holding Co.–a unit of Chinese transportation company HNA Group–said Friday that it will honor

When the world’s largest ore carrier, Vale Brasil, was loaded to her marks with 391,000 tons of iron ore in May she departed Brazil with the intention of

By Matthew Flynn, DNV Wilh. Wilhelmsen group made maritime history with four of the world’s largest RoRo car carrier ships ever built. As a first of the

RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazilian regulators have not advised U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. (CVX) that its license to drill in ultra-deep waters is

The Port of Los Angeles said today it has been working with the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) to develop an incentive program that

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. said last week that it has a won a contract with Korean-shipbuilding giant DSME to provide emergency shutdown, fire

CLEVELAND—U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters (“lakers”) carried 9.8 million tons of dry-bulk cargo in October, a weather-driven decrease of 3

Despite Chevron taking full responsibility (and up until now the majority of heat from Brazil’s oil regulating agency, ANP) for the estimated 5,000 to

Fred Olsen Energy’s drilling unit, Dolphin Drilling, says it has entered into contracts with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) for the provision of

International shipping association BIMCO announced today that it will be moving forward with the development of a standard contract for the employment of armed

Here, cameras role while Georgian and Turkish men who are being held hostage by Somali pirates tell about the harrowing ordeal. If you listen closely, they

PARIS (Dow Jones)–French oil service company Technip SA (TEC.FR) and a unit of Brazil’s conglomerate Norberto Odebrecht won a contract to supply

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Chevron Corp. (CVX) said an oil supply vessel off the coast of Nigeria was attacked by pirates, who kidnapped three people. The ship