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Lloyd’s Register (LR), a 253 year-old classification society with deep roots in the maritime industry has officially unveiled a new corporate logo and

In 2008, the Angolan town of Porto Amboim located  approximately 280 kilometers south of Luanda in the Kwanza Sul province was essentially a beach town with

Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX) said this week that its subsidiary, Diana Shipping Services, has been sentenced to pay a $1.1 million fine and serve 3.5 years

Newly-established Scorpio Bulkers has announced the commencement of a $150 million initial public offering, ending a busy week that included the purchase of 12

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has announce the successful test launch an all-electric, fuel cell-powered aerial drone from a submerged

London’s main flood defense, the Thames Barrier, was closed Thursday night and again Friday afternoon for the 126th time in its 31-year history due to a

We received a tip from a gCaptain source that the semi-submersible drilling rig, GSF Grand Banks broke from her tow yesterday south of Newfoundland. MarInt, a

By Adam Jourdan and Keith Wallis RUGAO, China/SINGAPORE, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Deserted flats and boarded-up shops in the Yangtze river town of Changqingcun

Japanese shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) have received newbuild orders today from Astomos Energy Corporation

ABB announced today a $180 million order to deliver complete electrical power plants and Azipod XO propulsion systems for six new cruise liners.  With this

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Statoil ASA, Norway’s state-owned oil producer, discovered as much as 3 trillion cubic feet of gas offshore Tanzania, where it

The Pentagon is outfitting a Navy auxiliary ship with mobile units capable of neutralizing Syria’s poison gas and chemicals used to make nerve gas 45 to

A helicopter heading offshore with 8 passengers made a hard landing Thursday morning at Port Fourchon, but no injuries have been reported.

Hurricane-force Storm Xaver blasted towards mainland Europe on Thursday after cutting transport and power in northern Britain and killing three people in what

Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company which has been struggling recently to overcome a long list of blemishes to its safety record, has been

The agency that oversees development in the San Francisco Bay in California has begun a formal investigation into the construction of a secretive Google Inc

Wang Jing, a little known Chinese investor who has a concession to build a waterway in Nicaragua to rival the Panama Canal, announced he was also spearheading

Talks are focused on whether “a possible business combination or any other form of association would be of mutual interest,” Hamburg-based

John Cota, the former San Francisco pilot who infamously crashed the M/V Cosco Busan into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on a typical foggy morning in

Canada must be better prepared to respond to major oil spills if more crude starts to flow in pipelines to the country's Pacific Coast, a government panel said

New Zealand's maritime safety authority, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ), has been put under the microscope for their response to the October 2011 MV Rena

Russia's Gazprom Neft plans to sign a deal on Thursday to build a terminal to ship oil from its new Novoportovskoye Arctic field to feed Europe, sources

Salvage, cleanup and environmental protection efforts continue in response to the sunken towboat Stephen L. Colby on the Mississippi River near LeClaire,

The United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog are awaiting approval from a country to use its port to load Syria's most deadly chemicals onto a

The members of the G6– a merger of the New World and Grand Alliances – have announced plans to go head-to-head with the P3 network by expanding