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Following last Friday’s historic first test flight of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft, U.S. Navy sailors were on-hand to recover the Orion Crew Module

A 55 year-old Polish man has died after falling overboard from a 633-foot bulk carrier into the frigid waters of Lake

Prolific Turkish tug-builder Sanmar has sent another tug on its way to work recently, their 16th so far this year. The Svitzer Tyne, as the name suggests, is

Drilling contractor Noble Corporation PLC on Monday said it paid $12.2 million to settle felony charges by the U.S. Department of Justice related to safety,

Captain Jonathan Flores shared a few images taken with his trusty GoPro camara of a recent Thanksgiving/Welcome Aboard pool party aboard his ship, NYK

Nordic American Tankers Ltd announced today that it has entered into a preliminary agreement with South Korean shipyard Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine

After nearly 30 years at Norwegian tanker company Odfjell, the last 5 of which as CEO, Jan A. Hammer will be leaving the company. Odfjell’s Board cites

Algeria, Africa’s largest natural gas producer, has expanded capacity to ship the fuel on tankers and plans to sell more of it in Asia and make up for a

Norway signaled it may cut its economic forecast for next year as a slump in oil prices threatens growth in western Europe’s biggest crude

U.S. Representative Joe Barton will introduce a bill on Tuesday to lift the 40-year ban on exports of crude oil, but the measure has almost no chance of

Denmark has compensated nine Somalis suspected of trying to hijack a Danish ship in 2013 because they were detained too long before being brought before a

An Austrian yacht design firm has unveiled a new superyacht concept for the uber rich that is based on the size and shape of a modern suezmax oil tanker.

The first megablock section of Norwegian Cruise Lines' 163,000 ton Norwegian Escape has been floated out of the building dock at the Meyer Werft shipyard in

At least 21 people were reported dead, many of them drowned as flood waters rose in Borongan, the main town in Eastern Samar, where typhoon Hagupit made first

This article was written by the American maritime Partnership in response to a recent discussion on the Jones Act at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative

   ABB, the Switzerland-based power and automation technology giant, has been chosen by an undisclosed offshore contractor to deliver a cutting-edge

OAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) announced today the signing of a new USD $319 million, 10 year credit facility which the company says will be used to finance two

Billionaire John Fredriksen bought shares in Seadrill Ltd. for $33.5 million, boosting his stake in the offshore driller to 23.9 percent as the stock fell

The killing of a crew member of a Vietnamese tanker by pirates yesterday marks a deadly escalation in Southeast Asian hijackings and the third attack on a ship

MODEC announced today the FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24 achieved first oil in October at block BM-S-11 in Santos Basin offshore Brazil.  The vessel is on

Today we remember December 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy. RIP

Brazilian authorities are investigating foreign companies including AP Moeller-Maersk A/S over allegations they bribed Petroleo Brasileiro SA executives in

A civilian engineer at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard was arrested in a sting operation on a charge of trying to steal diagrams of the U.S. Navy’s newest nuclear

Some comments made by the Australian skipper of Team Vestas Wind over the grounding which led to the loss of the team's 65-foot racing yacht during a leg of

A powerful typhoon roared into the eastern Philippines on Saturday, bringing lashing rain and strong winds that felled trees, ripped off tin roofs and toppled