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EMAS AMC, the subsea services arm of offshore contractor Ezra Holdings Inc. has won upwards of $110 million in new contracts according to a statement today by

Chinese shipyards are aiming to take some $10 billion in orders for new LNG tankers over the rest of the decade, part of a plan to restructure the country's

Seattle-based naval architecture and engineering firm Elliot Bay Design Group (EBDG) says it has been awarded a contract from the New York Department of

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq asked a U.S. court on Monday to throw out an order to seize some 1 million barrels of disputed crude oil and

Houston-headquartered Northern Offshore, Ltd. (Oslo: NOF.OL) announced at the end of July it had secured a 2 ½ year contract with Rosneft, in conjunction with

Happy 224th Birthday, U.S. Coast Guard!

The international shipping community is being warned of the potential dangers from the unprecedented Ebola virus outbreak in west

Following weeks of negotiations, the Finnish Government and German shipbuilder Meyer Werft have signed an agreement the purchase of the STX Finland's Turku

Firefighters contained a blaze at Cosan SA's sugar facilities at the Port of Santos in Brazil on Monday, reducing storage capacity in the world's largest

Wärtsilä’s ship design group has been selected to design a new ferry as part of the ‘Midway Alignment of the Bothnian Corridor’ project.

TUI Cruises announced today the order for two new ships from STX Europe’s shipyard in Turku, Finland. The ships will be sister vessels of two other ships

Matz Maersk, the ninth 18,270 TEU containership built for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group made its maiden voyage port call to Bremerhaven on 27 July and

A ferry with about 200 passengers aboard capsized on Monday in the river Padma southwest of Dhaka and rescue teams took about half of them to safety, the chief

Egypt has chosen a consortium that includes the Egyptian army and global engineering firm Dar al-Handasah to develop an international industrial and logistics

Rosatom, Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation announced last week that its subsidiary Rusatom Overseas signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNNC

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touted the success of his economic policies on a visit to Brazil on Friday and said it was time for the two nations to expand

A Greenpeace ship has departed Russia more than 10 months after it was arrested by Russian authorities during a high profile protest against arctic

Bouchard Transportation Co. announced Friday further expansion of its ongoing fleet expansion program with the construction of two 6000-hp ATB

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida made an unprecedented announcement during his visit to Vietnam – one that may serve to heighten tensions in the

Lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party are pressuring the government to prevent France from delivering two warships to