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China Oilfield has surged 46 percent in Hong Kong trading in the past year, as its main customer Cnooc Ltd. increased capital spending on offshore

A group led by Sacyr SA said it will need more money than the Panama Canal Authority is offering to continue expansion work on the waterway as a dispute over

UPDATE: The AMSA has confirmed late Tuesday that their response to the incident has ended after both captains of the MV Akademik Shokalski and Xue Long

Whether you are located in North America, Scandinavia, or all the way on the other side of the world in Antarctica, it’s probably not exactly flip flops

A search is underway today for a missing crewmember reported to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship more than 1,000 miles from

Murkowski - "The goal must be to make energy more

Bourbon SA, an operator of supply and crew ships for the oil industry, sold a dozen vessels for $378 million to China’s ICBC Financial Leasing to reduce

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports today the captain of the ship MT Althea, a Ukrainian, has been released from pirate

State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), leader of the country's liquefied natural gas import business, plans another receiving terminal in the

Some quick thinking and a fair amount of luck kept the Russian general cargo ship Rusich 1 (translated) from running aground near Lisbon, Portugal Monday after

With the UK buffeted by a succession of storms, it has been an ill wind that has blown London Gateway some good over the festive period with DP World’s

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has located the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, kicking off what is sure to be another season of clashes in

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hollyhock, a 225-foot sea-going buoy tender homeported in Port Huron, Michigan crumpled it’s port stern quarter after

Ever since people tried to navigate the seaways, the prevailing weather has always been very crucial to the success of expeditions. To steer away from trouble

Dubai's Gulf Navigation received shareholder backing to continue operating as well as approval for measures aimed at fixing its long-standing debt problems,

In an emailed statement this morning that didn’t include any executive commentary, Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (NYSE: SALT) announced $1,171 million in

Vale S.A. notes today that it has suspended force majeure (FM) on a number of its iron ore sales contracts effective as of January 6th, 2014. FM was declared

Belgian shipping group Euronav said it planned to raise $350 million in a capital increase to pay for the 15 large crude carriers it bought from Denmark's

As the ice thickens in Thunder Bay, Canada underneath a polar vortex which has brought temperatures down to 26 degrees below F, and wind chills at negative 51

The Panama Canal Authority rejected claims from a group led by Sacyr SA, which has threatened to abandon expansion work if the waterway doesn’t meet a

DAKAR, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Senegal has seized a Russian trawler fishing illegally in its waters, the fisheries minister said on Sunday, as it seeks to curb

The United States is sending a heavy icebreaker to help free a Russian ship and a Chinese icebreaker gripped by Antarctic ice, the Coast Guard said on

A vortex of polar air has pushed its way into the northern plains of the United States this weekend bringing with it record-breaking cold temperatures and wind

Yesterday, the New York Times published an outstanding piece of journalism – A Speck in the Sea by Paul Tough. In it, Tough tells the story of John

Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday unsuccessfully boarded an LPG tanker off Gabon marking the first piracy-related incident of 2014