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(Bloomberg) — China will remove “unreasonable fees” and introduce supportive policies for shipping companies in the second half of the year

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) reached a significant milestone today by registering over 200 million gross tons, corresponding to approximately 12,000

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, July 11 (Reuters) – A court has granted a unit of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries approval to proceed with legal action to reclaim

July 11 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container line, rose to its highest in three months in Copenhagen

Seadrill has announced a new contract for their LT-Super 116E jack-up rig West Freedom with Cardon IV Venezuela, an ENI SpA and REPSOL joint venture. The rig

The MOL Comfort saga has come to an end. According to an emailed report by the Indian Coast Guard, the burned out wreck parted her tow line and disappeared

SAO PAULO, July 10 (Reuters) – Dock workers at Brazil’s key shipping port of Santos, the largest in South America, stopped a strike over port

Volstad Shipping AS has signed a newbuild contract with Tersan Shipyard in Turkey for a new Subsea IMR and Construction Vessel. The vessel comes at a total

It’s official folks, if you had cargo on the MOL Comfort, it’s either sitting underneath 4,000 meters of seawater, or it’s been burned to a

By Rene Toomse, CEO of Aburgus Maritime Security is not a rocket science.  To conduct the actual work one just needs a number of trustworthy men, some money

Images just sent to us via an anonymous gCaptain contributor showing damage to the RHL Fidelitas containership after she allegedly collided with a bulk

UPDATE (10 JUL): MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk The Indian Coast Guard has departed the scene today of the burned-out derelict of the once elegant

July 10 (Bloomberg) — Fred Olsen Energy ASA rose to a six- week high in Oslo ahead of the offshore drilling company’s quarterly results tomorrow,

A collection of photos from the ongoing MOL Comfort incident.

Update: A statement from Talos Energy late Tuesday said that during operations yesterday to permanently plug and abandon their non-producing Ship Shoal 225 B-2

(Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc unexpectedly named refining boss Ben van Beurden to succeed Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser as Europe’s

The Malaysian-flagged MV Albedo, hijacked by Somali pirates in 2010 and held at an anchorage close to the Somali Coast, has sunk in rough seas, the European

SAO PAULO, July 9 (Reuters) – Dock workers at Brazil’s key shipping port of Santos, the largest in South America, are planning a 24-hour strike on

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has announced that their wholly-owned, and recently acquired subsidiary, Dockwise, has been awarded USD $175 million

The manslaughter trial of the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which capsized off Italy's coast last year killing 32 people, began on Tuesday and

UPDATE (10 JUL): MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk In a chat with the Indian Coast Guard this morning, they note that the the fire on board the fore section

SEOUL, July 9 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has won an order worth 481.2 billion Korean won ($417.61

(Bloomberg) — China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd. is in talks with two coastal cities and government departments to secure financial

With the first of Maersk’s Triple-E container ships, the Maersk McKinney Moller, due to be officially delivered to the line tomorrow by shipbuilder

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) reports today that the a fire has broken out on the rear end of the fore part of the vessel at around 0030UTC (0930 JST) on July