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Big cruise ships will be barred from Venice's Saint Mark's lagoon, to protect Italy's floating city from potential damage caused by growing traffic, the

Subsea entrepreneur John Giddens, the founder of Hallin Marine who built his company into a global subsea services player after starting it from a container

Seadrill breathed a sign of relief today as another one of their drilling rigs under construction at Samsung Heavy gained a charter contract. As gCaptain

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, 36 people were killed and 601 injured last year while riding personal watercraft. Roughly quarter of those incidents

On the 50th anniversary of the issuing of the first licenses for the extraction of oil and gas from the UK continental shelf (UKCS), we asked oil executives

A U.S. shipping firm is suing Alcoa for $300 million saying it suffered losses after the aluminium maker breached a contract with the Guinean government

This time-lapse shows the construction of two 900 cubic meter cryogenic tanks to be installed onboard Tote's Marlin-class

Australia’s plans to export more iron ore this year than any nation ever is driving up shipping costs by 80 percent. Increased sales from Brazil before

On 7 August, the 106-meter Russian-flagged cargo ship Sea Champion was disabled due to an engine room fire while operating in the Sea of Japan approximately

Sanctions, what

Japanese shipping firm K-Line reports today the company has dug themselves out of a loss-making situation over the past quarter in their containership business

The massive container ships passing through the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Southern California will be paid a bonus of $2,500 per trip to slow

Brazilian mining company Vale SA plans to double its iron ore exports to China within five years according to Jose Carlos Martins, the company's head of

If your ship intends to call in ports affected by the Ebola virus, here are some important safety measures via the World Health Organization and the Marshall

The Jumbo Kinetic “heavy lifter” left Croatia’s Brodosplit shipyard today enroute to Viktor Lenac shipyard where the twin 1,500 ton cranes

Hurricane Iselle was forecast to hit Hawaii on Thursday as residents scurried to gather supplies and officials warned of flooding and outages, while a

In March 2012, film director James Cameron became the first person in history to solo dive the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Marianas Trench and

Hornbeck Offshore’s 240-class offshore supply vessel HOS Bluewater and the 265-class HOS Brimstone were moored at Port Fourchon last night when an Edison

Maersk Drilling took delivery today of their second XL Enhanced harsh environment jack-up rig from Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. This rig and its sister

China plans to build lighthouses on five islands in the South China Sea, state media reported on Thursday, in defiance of calls from the United States and the

Tugboat engineers at Australia’s Port Hedland called off an intended strike that threatened exports from the terminal which ships about a quarter of the

Spain’s police, La Guardia Civil, seized 127 kilos of cocaine onboard the Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano while at port in Cadiz over the

West Texas Intermediate crude swung between gains and losses near a six-month low before trade data that will signal the strength of the economy in

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has awarded Dutch engineering company Fugro an additional contract for a comprehensive deep-water search for

Bones possibly belonging to the Costa Concordia's only still missing person may have been found onboard the hulk of the