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A planned helicopter rescue of 52 passengers on a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve was delayed on Thursday due to unfavourable sea

Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest trading company, and Mitsui & Co. withdrew from an agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from Woodside Petroleum

About 10 hours before the stroke of midnight on 31 December, Taiwan shipbuilding firm CSBC closed out the year with a $50 million order from Singapore-based

Happy New Year folks! As many of you noticed, we launched the all-new gCaptain store just before Christmas in cooperation with

When the leaders of Mexico and China met last summer, there was much talk of the need to deepen trade between their nations. Down on Mexico's Pacific coast, a

Ports in Australia's resource-rich Pilbara region were returning to normal and loading vessels on Wednesday after suspending shipments and evacuating staff

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A look at 2013 in pictures.

Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard announced today the signing of a repeat order to build a third Pacific Class 400 jack-up rig for Perisai (L)

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Corn headed for the biggest annual drop since at least 1960 and wheat tumbled the most in five years as grain production climbs to

Tall ships are the last few living objects of ages past, like hands with long arms protruding from the past to our times, like long piers coming to our

Thick ice and weather will prevent icebreakers from reaching the stricken MV Akademik Shokalskiy expedition ship stuck in ice off Antarctica, forcing a

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a Marine Accident Report on its investigation into the January 2013 allision between the Overseas Reymar

A laden chemical tanker has suffered what looks like a catastrophic fire following a collision with a car carrier on sea trials near Busan, South

Efforts are underway to retrieve a stricken bulk carrier off the coast of Cork, Ireland that went adrift Sunday after losing

Some new details have emerged today about the condition of the MSC Monterey containership which suffered a crack in its hull while underway in adverse

Severe Antarctic weather was slowing an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach a Russian ship trapped in ice since Christmas eve with 74 people onboard, the

Iron ore shipments from northern Australia, the world’s biggest exporter, and some offshore oil drilling were halted as a cyclone forecast to bring

British Virgin Islands-based firm Prosperity Investment Ltd has entered into an agreement today with China State Shipbuilding Corporation to build four, 64,000

Update 2: 1.5 Meter Crack Discovered in Hull of MSC Monterey Update: The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre reports that the MSC Monterey is currently at anchor

Israel’s sputtering preparations for exporting offshore natural gas have postponed drilling and threaten a $2.3 billion investment from

Twenty-two never-before-seen photographic negatives, left a century ago in Captain Robert F. Scott’s last Antarctic expedition base at Cape Evans, have

LONDON, Dec 29 (Reuters) – British police said on Sunday they had arrested two men after a suspected arson attack on a ferry in the North Sea carrying

The Deepsea Aberdeen, a semi-submersible drilling rig being built for Odfjell Drilling, sank at the DSME shipyard in South Korea on Saturday. Up until its

The video captures construction of Washington state’s newest Olympic Class ferry, 144-car Tokitae, from the start of construction through summer 2013.