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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

The United States needs billions of dollars of new equipment including ice-breaking ships, better satellite service and fiber-optic networks as it prepares

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

Daily rates for Capesize vessels hauling about 160,000 metric tons of iron ore jumped 38 percent to $12,580 today, according to the Baltic Exchange in

A team of researchers led by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries have discovered two significant shipwrecks from World War II’s legendary

By Oleg Vukmanovic MILAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Plunging global oil prices may turn hopes for cheap liquefied natural gas supplies from the United States

Boskalis, Van Oord and Jan de Nul aren’t the only the only ones who will be sucking vast quantities of mud from the Suez Canal over the next few

A Lockheed Martin-led team launched the United States Navy's seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Detroit, into the Menominee River this weekend

Is it a submarine? Is it Russian? And what’s it doing off the coast of

McDermott International’s DB30 derrick barge, with its 2,794 metric ton-rated crane, will be put to work this year supporting Petronas’ Bukit Tua

The VLCC Centennial J was selected by Tullow Oil for the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) Project offshore Ghana where she is currently being converted into an

"We believe that with the depleting (oil) reserves and aging (rig) fleet, the industry fundamentals are still strong," said Chief Executive Loh Chin Hua in a

Two crew members aboard the Ensco-104 jack-up rig were killed on Saturday, 18 October when the lifeboat they were working on unexpectedly let go and fell to

Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive of French energy major Total was killed tonight along with three crew members in a plane crash at Moscow’s

Singapore-based TRIYARDS Holdings Ltd, a builder of specialized offshore vessels and mobile drilling units announced today it will be expanding through the

By Rainbow Nelson in Cartagena Nicaragua’s ambitious plans to build a rival to the Panama Canal are likely to cost almost double the estimated $40bn,