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Transocean’s Development Driller II (DD2) is having its derrick removed at Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo, Italy in preparation for its mobilization to

With the Eagle Ford development producing huge amounts of cheap natural gas, companies such as Austria’s voestalpine are making major investments into

Qatargas delivered the first cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to China National Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) Hainan LNG terminal located in the Hainan

The number of container ships transporting goods around the world has fallen in the first half of 2014 but the total capacity of the global fleet continues to

Bad weather was hampering a desperate search on Monday for two foreign tourists still missing after a boat travelling between two Indonesian islands sank at

STORM CHAOS. Perth & SW hit hard. LIVE from #Fremantle & #Bunbury soon on #TodayPerth9. LIVE STREAM #9Newscomau pic.twitter.com/GPqqNbNhKV — Nine

DOF Subsea announced today they have been awarded multiple new contracts adding approximately NOK 830 million (USD $135 million) to their existing backlog of

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned the nation’s largest indigenously built warship as he strives to modernize the armed forces and counter

U.S. Federal officials are trying to piece together details of a stabbing incident aboard a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier off the Delaware that left two

A 485-foot chemical tanker is adrift several hundred miles off the coast of Oregon following an engine room fire that reportedly killed on

A man has died after 35 people, including several children, were found inside a shipping container being unloaded at a dock in eastern England on Saturday

Determined to keep the spread of the Ebola virus away from its shores, the small island nation of Cape Verde located off the coast of west Africa is taking

The Panama Canal on Friday officially celebrated the 100 year anniversary of its inauguration on August 15, 1914 with the transit of the SS Ancon. It was on

Seems to be a prime example of how NOT to overtake a larger vessel, or any vessel for that matter, in a narrow or restricted

The largest turret module for largest floating structure ever constructed has set sail from Dubai for the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South

Earlier this week, the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany floated-out Royal Caribbean's new 167,800 ton Quantum of the Seas cruise ship, the first ship

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating an incident this week involving the failure of a crane on board the bulk carrier Seapace while

Atlantic Offshore’s newest addition to their fleet, ERRV Ocean Marlin, has been named in Stavanger by Godmother Anni H. Apeland. The vessel was built at

Japan on Friday froze the assets of the operator of a North Korean ship seized for smuggling

BHP Billiton Ltd. may announce a spinoff of assets estimated to be worth as much as $12 billion next week, as the world’s biggest mining company casts aside