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The U.S. Coast Guard and state and local partners are responding to a collision and what appears to be a fairly significant oil spill in the Houston Ship

The U.S.-flagged joint venture known as Maersk-Rickmers quietly announced this week that its operations have been discontinued.

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Shareholders of Chilean shipper Compania SudAmericana de Vapores on Friday approved an agreement that combines its container-shipping operations with those of

The first piece of steel has been cut at none other than the MEYER WERFT shipyard in Papenburg, Germany for the construction of Norwegian Escape, the first of

Washington State Ferries' first 144-car Olympic Class vessel, the M/V Tokitae, was christened Thursday during a ceremony at Vigor's Seattle shipyard where the

Maersk Drilling this week officially named the jack-up formerly known as B331 during a star-studded ceremony at the Keppel FELS shipyard in

London-based Navig8 Tankers is well on their way to achieving a significant position in the evolving tanker market as they continue to head to Asian shipyards

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) notes the search for the missing Malaysia airliner has concluded for the second day in a row.  No trace of the

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. officials urged BP Plc to drill deeper into the Gulf of Mexico well that caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history even

By Ole Mikkelsen and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, March 21 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Line, the world’s No.1 container shipping firm, said it

Seaspan Corporation (NYSE:SSW) announced Thursday that it accepted delivery of its first SAVER design containership, the 10,000 TEU Hanjin

According to data obtained by gCaptain, a dozen newly-built offshore drilling rigs will commence operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) this year while five

Russian troops took over three Ukrainian warships in Crimea on Thursday, a Ukrainian navy official said, after Moscow's military seizure of the Black Sea

Here are some photos showing Royal Caribbean's next generation cruise ship, Quantum of the Seas, under construction at the Meyer Werft Shipyard in Papenburg,

The owner of a Norwegian car carrier said it planned to search through the night for two large objects sighted off Australia that could be debris from a

MSC Cruises on Thursday announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with STX France for the construction of two new cruise ships with an option for

Here's a series of photos showing the placement of the drilling derrick onboard Diamond Offshore Drilling's new ultra-deep water drillship, Ocean BlackLion at

McDermott International’s Lay Vessel North Ocean 105 (LV105), a deepwater reeled pipelay installation vessel, will be heading to work at Brazil’s

Need to pick up something extraordinarily heavy while floating in the middle of the ocean and then placing it somewhere with extreme precision? There are a

Jay Goodgal will no doubt be shaking his head this morning on the latest news from COSCO which has ordered eight new bulk carriers via its investment holding

After a challenging year for container shippers who continue to deal with the issue of too many ships and too few cargoes, the top names in the business have

After analysts from the Australian GeoSpacial-Intelligence Organisation detected possible pieces of large debris floating in the remote southern Indian Ocean,

OSLO, March 20 (Reuters) – Tanker Investments’ raised $175 million in an initial public offering in Oslo, valuing the firm at 2.9 billion crowns

Houston-based Kirby Corporation announced this week plans to construct an additional 29 tank barges totaling more than 850,000 barrels of new capacity to be