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(Bloomberg) — Qatar Gas Transport Co., the operator of liquefied natural gas vessels, said its joint venture with Angelicoussis Shipping Group Ltd.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Johan Walter Berg AB, including its core brand of Berg Propulsion, a leading

Singapore-based rig-builder Sembcorp Marine announced today that they have signed newbuild orders for two jack-up rigs from Integradora de Servicios Petroleros

(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest natural gas exporters will seek to defend linking prices to the cost of oil even after courts ruled they

South Korean shipyards Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy announced orders on Monday with a pair of LNG carriers and a

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, June 30 (Reuters) – The top U.S. energy official said he believed the oil market could cope with any further reduction of

I’ve had serious reservations about the future of the America’s Cup over the past few years, even more so since the tragic death of Andrew

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In August of last year, the bulk carrier M/V Ocean Breeze found itself being absolutely pummeled by huge surf on a Chilean beach approximately 1.5 miles south

Years ago if you wanted to import bananas you had two choices. You could pick the bananas when they were still green and un-ripened so they would arrive a

June 28 (Reuters) – Shipping company Ardmore Shipping Corp filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $160 million in an initial public offering of common

The development of a new type of 20ft container technology has taken a step further with the completion of a trial shipment of the so-called Tworty

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced this week that the company has been awarded a contract for the inactivation of the nuclear-powered aircraft

Seven missing, including six Americans.

Mariners aboard USNS Seay (T-AKR 302) rendered assistance to a commercial vessel in distress while underway in the Indian Ocean, June

The outlook for the drybulk shipping market is brightening after a stormy four years, but only those shippers that managed to avoid getting swamped by debt are

Shipping rates for iron ore rallied for the longest since 2006 as record fleet growth slows and amid speculation that demand is rising to deliver the

Singapore-based China Navigation Co. Pte. Ltd (CNCo) has chosen Wärtsilä to supply propulsion packages for 24 of their new Multi-Purpose Vessels and

Owners of large ships using EU ports will have to measure and report annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from January 2018 under proposals the European

June 28 (Bloomberg) — Subsea 7 SA, an offshore oil services provider, advanced in Oslo as investors bought back into the stock after a

Teekay Market Analyst, Christian Waldegrave notes in his latest conventional tanker market report that there has been very strong growth in non-OPEC oil

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. plans to phase-out and upgrade the six sister vessels to MOL

ExxonMobil has taken a long-term charter on the U.S.-flagged American Phoenix oil tanker at a near record rate of around $100,000 per

The domestic tanker industry in the United States is finding support from the boost in the nation’s crude oil

Stern section of the MOL Comfort has sunk. EXCLUSIVE