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Friday, August 15, 2014
Photos: World’s Largest Turret Module Sets Sail for South Korea
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Photos: World’s Largest Turret Module Sets Sail for South Korea

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

Friday, August 15, 2014
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Watch: Quantum of the Seas Float-Out at Meyer Werft
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Watch: Quantum of the Seas Float-Out at Meyer Werft

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

August 15, 2014
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Crane Breaks Off Bulk Carrier, Falls into Cargo Hold [IMAGES]
Incidents

Crane Breaks Off Bulk Carrier, Falls into Cargo Hold [IMAGES]

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

August 15, 2014
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Atlantic Offshore Celebrates Latest Fleet Addition in Stavanger

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

August 15, 2014
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Japan Freezes Assets of North Korean Shipping Firm
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Japan Freezes Assets of North Korean Shipping Firm

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

August 15, 2014
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BHP May Announce $12 Billion Spinoff of Billiton Assets

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

August 15, 2014
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Friday, August 15, 2014
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Asia-Europe Container Shipping Rates Fall Over 10 Percent

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell by 10.7 percent to $1,198 per 20-foot container (TEU) this

August 15, 2014
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Standby Vessel Damaged in Collision With Wind Turbine Pile Off England
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Standby Vessel Damaged in Collision With Wind Turbine Pile Off England

Liverpool Coastguard on Thursday was coordinating the response to a ship that was leaking oil following a collision with a wind turbine pile at wind farm off

August 14, 2014
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CIMC Raffles Delivers New Jack-Up to Coastal Contracts Bhd

Malaysian offshore and marine services provider Coastal Contracts Bhd received a new Friede & Goldman-designed JU2000E jack-up drilling rig this week from

August 14, 2014
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Panama Says a $5.3 Billion Canal Expansion May Not Be Big Enough
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Panama Says a $5.3 Billion Canal Expansion May Not Be Big Enough

A century after the U.S. steamship Ancon first sailed through the Panama Canal, a $5.3 billion expansion delayed by bickering contractors and angry workers is

August 14, 2014
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Can This Ocean Array Rid The World’s Oceans of Harmful Plastics?
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Can This Ocean Array Rid The World’s Oceans of Harmful Plastics?

We first heard about this concept back in late 2012 when a first year aerospace engineering student named Boyan Slat gave a TED talk about how the Great

August 14, 2014
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
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Tsakos Announces LR1 Newbuild Partnership

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced today the signing of a newbuild plus five-year charter agreement with an undisclosed European oil major for

August 14, 2014
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Tugboat Captain Killed in Accident in New Orleans Industrial Canal
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Tugboat Captain Killed in Accident in New Orleans Industrial Canal

A tugboat Captain was killed Wednesday night in New Orleans after the crane from the crane barge it was pushing struck a bridge, causing it to crash into the

August 14, 2014
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Passenger Ferry Slammed By Rogue Wave
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Passenger Ferry Slammed By Rogue Wave

A passenger ferry became disabled Wednesday off Massachusetts reportedly after being hit by a rogue

August 14, 2014
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Dry Bulk: Commodities Fall to Six-Month Low as Gains for Year Evaporate

Commodities fell to a six-month low, erasing almost all of this year’s gains, as oil and grains declined on signs of ample supplies and slower economic

August 14, 2014
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Great Bell of Dhammazedi dredging myanmar
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Free-divers Search for 270-Ton Bell Resting Under 25 Feet of Mud

In 1608, a Portuguese warlord named Filipe de Brito e Nicote was causing trouble near Myanmar and attempted to steal the Great Bell of Dhammazedi from the

August 14, 2014
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
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News

Japanese Ductile Steel Technology Incorporated Into New MOL Bulker

Japanese engineers have introduced new technology to the shipbuilding industry in the form of “highly ductile steel plate” on board a newly

August 14, 2014
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
German Ferry Loses Power, Creates a Mess of Things on the Rhine
Incidents

German Ferry Loses Power, Creates a Mess of Things on the Rhine

Meanwhile, both anchors remain stowed in their respective housings… Then again, if I were the captain of that ferry, there’s probably a

August 13, 2014
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Collision

Volts Shipping Sues U.S. Navy Over USS Porter Strait of Hormuz Collision

Citing violation of Rules 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, and 16, of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (COLREGS) and their

August 13, 2014
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Australian Navy Chief Inspects Fire Damage to HMAS Bundaberg
Defense

Australian Navy Chief Inspects Fire Damage to HMAS Bundaberg

The Chief of the Royal Austrialian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, was at a Brisbane dockyard on Wednesday to inspect damage to a the Armidale Class Patrol

August 13, 2014
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Venari Raises Additional $1.3 Billion to Bolster Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Inventory
Offshore

Venari Raises Additional $1.3 Billion to Bolster Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Inventory

Gulf of Mexico-focused deepwater exploration and production company Venari Resources says it has raised an additional $1.3 billion in equity commitments

August 13, 2014
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