gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

Meow Man brings us an evening fly-by of Donjon Marine’s Chesapeake 1000 crane barge. The 1972-built barge has a lifting capacity of 1,000 short tons at

JERUSALEM, May 19 (Reuters) – Israel Corp shareholders are set to vote on a $3 billion restructuring plan by the conglomerate’s shipping offshoot

Prominent navigational aids on the approach to and within San Francisco Bay have now been inputted for the first time into the electronic aid to navigation

Kleven Shipyard’s build number 365, a SALT 301 OCV-design, was launched on 11 May 2014. The ship was designed by Salt Ship Design and mostly built in

Havila Shipping ASA announced today 14 years worth of new charter contracts or extensions have been awarded to their offshore vessels. Maersk Oil awarded the

Singapore-based Otto Marine announced today they have purchased the remaining 10 percent block of shares of Perth-based offshore services provider, Go Marine

By Sam Kim May 19 (Bloomberg) — South Korean President Park Geun Hye apologized to the nation over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left 300 people

While on a transatlantic sailboat delivery from Antigua to the UK, the crew on board the Beneteau 40.7 Cheeki Rafiki activated two of their EPIRBS (satellite

The world’s last remaining wooden-hulled whaling ship, Charles W. Morgan got underway this weekend after spending the past 73 years up the Mystic River

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 17 (Reuters) – Rescue workers in Bangladesh completed the search of a stricken river ferry on Saturday, bringing the number

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 16 (Reuters) – Brazil’s OSX Brasil SA , the bankrupt shipbuilder controlled by former billionaire Eike Batista, presented a

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) reports today they have concluded Operation Taconite, the nation’s largest domestic ice operation which has enabled commercial

SANTIAGO, May 16 (Reuters) – Chile president Michelle Bachelet said on Friday her center-left government was planning the development of a “big

By Bruce Vail Lobbyists in Washington, D.C., are preparing to renew a legislative fight over U.S. government food aid shipments that pits U.S. shipping

Just two more weeks until the Port of Houston sees the arrival of the third of three new high-performance emergency response

Saga Cruises spokesperson Paul Green note in a phone call that their cruise ship Saga Sapphire is currently at anchor off western Scotland after an electrical

Signet Maritime Corporation announced today the acquisition of eight offshore towing vessels from Harvey Gulf International Marine as part of a $209 million

Mikael Holter and Stephen Treloar May 16 (Bloomberg) — Norwegian opposition parties will force Statoil ASA and other companies to power four North Sea

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 16 (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi official said on Friday there was no chance of finding further survivors of a ferry that sank

Financially distressed dry bulk shipper Eagle Bulk has gained another two weeks to come to an agreement with their lenders to agree on a restructuring

In conjunction with Teekay’s Q1 2014 earnings report today,the company announced its intent to acquire Logitel Offshore, a floating accommodations rig

Here's a new video from DP World's London Gateway port showing the newly opened second

Christian Waldegrave, Teekay’s Manager of Research, provides an update of the conventional tanker market since the start of 2014 as well as an outlook

Statoil is more likely to develop the $15.5 billion Johan Castberg field in the Arctic using a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) installation

On May 1st, Greenpeace activists were out in numbers in Rotterdam to “greet” the Sovcomflot-owned ice-class shuttle tanker Mikhail Ulyanov