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By Gavin van Marle, The last remaining major South American shipping line, Chile’s CSAV, is beginning to reap the benefits of a concerted change in

A North Korean ship stopped by Panama laden with fighter jets and other undeclared military gear will be opened to United Nations inspectors to determine

Quick-thinking tug and barge crew use backhoe to extinguish top-floor blaze.

With the first container terminals on Rotterdam’s newly reclaimed Maasvlakte II set to open next year, the Dutch port – Europe’s largest

Tim Farrar is an analyst and blogger who has been covering the satellite industry since the mid-1990s. We had crossed paths before, notably discussing his End

The European Union competition regulator has ordered Spain to recover state aid given to shipyard investors, saying the measure gave them an unfair advantage

Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, was not the only one to blame for a disaster off Italy last year in which 32 people died, his

Tokyo-based MODEC International has announced the execution of a contract with Hess Corporation to provide Engineering and Management Services for the Stampede

A fair bit of upper body strength is required by maritime ship pilots while boarding vessels, especially in inclement weather, or when all of the sudden a

Rolls-Royce is working with B9 Shipping to develop a ship with a capacity of 4,500 tonnes that will be primarily powered by a 180-foot sail, with bio-methane

By Jonathan Saul and Jean-Rovys Dababy LONDON/LIBREVILLE, July 17 (Reuters) – Pirates have hijacked an oil products tanker with 24 crew onboard off the

July 16 (Bloomberg) — Eike Batista’s OSX-3 offshore oil- processing vessel, collateral for his shipping unit’s bonds, departed from Singapore

Lundin Petroleum announced today that they have spudded in at the Gohta Prospect located approximately 150 km northwest of the northern tip of Norway in the

The new ship will be the twin to "Le Soleal", the mini-cruise ship delivered last month, and follows "L'Austral" and "Le Boreal", delivered in May 2010 and

Panama detained a North Korean-flagged ship from Cuba as it headed to the Panama Canal and said it was hiding weapons in brown sugar containers, sparking a

Norwegian Cruise Line on Tuesday confirmed an order for a second 4,200-passenger "Breakaway Plus" cruise ship with MEYER WERFT of Papenburg,

China Cosco said on Tuesday its chairman Wei Jiafu has resigned as the company's chairman, chief executive officer and all other positions within the company

Today's ship photos are from Busan, South Korea where Maersk Lines' first Triple-E and the world's largest ship, MV Mærsk McKinney-Møller, has departed

The UK Maritime Pilots note that during a recent pilot disembarkation from a dry cargo vessel, both ropes on the pilot ladder parted simultaneously causing the

By Emma Farge GENEVA, July 16 (Reuters) – Angola’s monthly crude exports will slip in September to 1.67 million barrels per day (bpd), a

July 16 (Bloomberg) — Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a partner in the BP Plc well that blew up in 2010 and triggered the largest U.S. offshore oil spill, must

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday released the final report on the investigation into the 2010 fire onboard Carnival Cruise Lines' ship, Carnival

Awkwardly perched on cargo ships such as the Zhen Hua 24 are new and bigger cranes destined be installed at shipping ports around the world. The recent

Sea levels could rise by 2.3 metres for each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase and they will remain high for centuries to come, according to a

This past weekend, Shell’s Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) left Kiewit shipyard in Ingleside, Texas,  and is now making its way to its future home in