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A cruise ship returning to New York from the Caribbean with 4,500 passengers on board had to be towed into port on Sunday after getting stuck in the Hudson

David Beckham's dream of building a futuristic waterfront stadium in Miami that would house his own professional soccer team has turned into a "not in my

The 2014-built capesize bulk carrier LEOPOLD LD arrived in Richards Bay on the first of May 2014 after completing her maiden voyage from Tianjin Xingang

By Major Bryan Abell, USMCR I am not an expert on maritime piracy, nor am I an expert on West Africa. So seven months ago when our Stanford team

gCaptain’s favorite marine oceans blog, TheScuttleFish, interviewed gCaptain cofounder John Konrad about leadership, passion and his love for the ocean.

On its face, Mexico’s plan may seem conservative. But it will be easy for the nation's notoriously corrupt politicians to exploit. Here’s a better idea:

According to Clarkson Research, global trade growth is projected to reach around 6.0 percent in 2014 as compared to 4.9 percent growth in 2013, yet with a

By Christine Harvey May 2 (Bloomberg) — Suncor Energy Inc. and Valero Energy Corp. are poised to use only North American crude in eastern Canada by 2015,

In the following image submitted to us by Øystein Osvoll, the supply vessel Havila Foresight maintains station next to the Statoil-operated Grane oil

Fairmount Marine, the Netherlands-based ocean-going tug operator, announced this week that their 205 ton bollard pull tug, Fairmount Expedition completed the

By Mike Wackett, Against the continued toxic mix of oversupply and weak demand, cash-strapped ocean carriers are being forced to consider every creative

For the second day in a row, a Statoil-contracted drilling rig has found oil off Norway, this time however, the discovery was located 230 kilometers northwest

A MAIB film first published in May 2010, now four years later the lessons remain the

Mexico's government on Wednesday proposed a set of rules tailored toward attracting quick investment to its oil and gas industry as it mapped out how the state

The following image may make you hesitate a bit the next time you open your mouth while swimming in the ocean.  Photographer David Littschwager shows one

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Oaktree Capital Group LLC, the world’s largest distressed-debt investor, posted first-quarter profit that beat analyst estimates

Subsea 7 announced today the winning of a 3-year $160 million contract extension from BP Exploration & Production for light subsea construction, and

The French-flagged Dieppe Seaways passenger ferry suffered a fire in its boiler room today according to a phone call with DFDS spokesperson Gert Jakobsen. The

Just released cell phone video recovered from the body of one of the students that died on board the Sewol captures the overall sense of naivety about the

By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The start-up of a major Pacific Northwest rail-to-barge terminal that could bring hundreds of thousands of

Kirby Corporation’s record profit streak has continued through the first quarter according to their latest earnings report. The inland tug and barge

The Statoil-contracted drilling rig Songa Trym encountered a minor oil discovery while drilling wildcat well 35/11-17 located approximately 1 kilometer south

Sovcomflot’s ice class shuttle tanker Mikhail Ulyanov has been the target of a huge Greenpeace protest today upon arrival in Rotterdam. The tanker, which

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By Juan Pablo Spinetto April 30 (Bloomberg) — Vale SA, the largest iron-ore producer, posted a steeper decline in first-quarter profit than analysts