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With the departure of the Costa Concordia from Giglio scheduled for Wednesday morning, environmental activists plan follow along with the convoy as it travels

Melting Arctic ice is widening a path for ships to deliver European oil to Asia, stoking South Korea’s ambition to become a regional storage and trading

She was once the FPSO Xikomba, and prior to that she was known as the tanker Mosocean, and prior still as ESSO Bonn, a crude oil tanker owned by Exxon.

Here is some undated footage showing the out-of-control tug Psalm 1 slamming into a dock... and then two other moored

City councilors in South Portland, Maine, voted late Monday night to ban the loading of crude oil onto tankers along its

The Costa Concordia shipwreck has reached its final towing draft, thus completing the refloating phase of the largest maritime salvage in

Port operator APM Terminals, a unit of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, said it would sell a big U.S. container terminal to infrastructure investor Alinda Capital

The Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization reports that a containership owned by Thailand Taiwan-headquartered Wan Hai Lines has called on the port of Shahid

The owners of the pure care and truck carrier (PCTC) Morning Midas have been fined A$5000 and ordered to pay costs after the Melbourne Magistrates Court ruled

  Kleven, the Ulsteinvik-based shipyard has announced this week the receipt of a newbuild contract from IES Pioneer, Ltd. a Malaysian joint venture.

French President Francois Hollande said he’s prepared to cancel the sale of a second Mistral helicopter carrier ship to Russia if the European Union decides

South Korean police said on Tuesday that a body found last month in the south of the country was that of a fugitive businessman who headed the family that

As everyone knows, tugboat’n can get a little crazy sometimes, especially in Norway, so the naval architects at Robert Allan Ltd. to add a roll cage to

High-end cruise operator Crystal Cruises has announced plans to become the world's first luxury cruise line to sail the Arctic Ocean via the world famous and

In this video, deckhand Cassie shows us what it looks like to climb atop the main mast of the world’s most historic whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan.

Here are two examples of how not to pull your boat out of the water, in honor of summer of

With the full refloating of the Costa Concordia cruise liner almost complete, departure of the shipwreck from Giglio has been confirmed for Wednesday, July 23,

After an explosion and subsequent fire broke out in 2012 on board the containership MSC Flaminia, one that killed three crew-members and heavily damaged the

An ordinary, long-scheduled journey of an oil drilling rig into Arctic waters is turning into a major political exercise, attracting international scrutiny and

ICBC Financial Leading Company Ltd, an arm of the world’s largest bank, last week signed a $1.08 billion deal with Brazilian industrial