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Crowley Maritime Corporation on Monday announced that it has placed groundbreaking order for a pair of LNG-powered combination container-Ro/Ro, becoming the

Norwegian shipbuilding group, Ulstein, announced Monday two significant orders for a newly developed design of offshore construction vessel, including the

Winter weather appears to be primary factor in the sinking of two merchant ships off China yesterday leaving at least 10 sailors confirmed dead. According to a

Check out this new commercial released by Google UK for their Nexus 7 tablet, featuring a homesick engineer perk up when he is able to video chat with his

The foray of private equity groups in the shipping industry has been a focal point of discussion in industry forums, ever since the high-profile investments by

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Iran is quietly mobilising more ships to store and transport oil, aiming to keep its fields working and mitigate losses of several billion dollars a month from

The Australian Antarctic Division reports today that their icebreaker Aurora Australis is currently beset by heavy pack ice 180 nautical miles from Davis

The captain of a Greenpeace ship released on bail after two months of detention in a Russian prison following an Arctic protest said he and his fellow

By Daniel Fineren DUBAI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Iran’s nuclear deal with the West is not intended to let more of its oil into the market, the White

The passing of Captain Arthur J. Fournier, a former Portland, Maine Harbor pilot did not go unnoticed by the gCaptain community on 16 November. Out of respect

The momentum keeps building that shipping is indeed in a cyclical

By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI, Nov 23 (Reuters) – China on Saturday bolstered its claim to islands that Japan says it owns, warning that it would take

Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Rafael Nadal of Spain play an exhibition tennis match at a court set up on the deck of the "Argentino Supply" cargo

The search for the schooner, Niña, missing in the Tasman Sea, is breaking new ground in the use of satellite images to locate

Shipowners were lucky this year as newly proposed accounting standards have been delayed until at least 2015. The new rules would bring certain charters onto

The international maritime community has helped Sailors' Society charity raise nearly 70% of their £100,000 goal to help our Filipino seafarers reach loved

EU regulators will investigate whether 14 of the world's major container shipping companies, including world No. 1 A.P. Moller-Maersk and No. 2 MSC, have been

Washington State Ferries is another step closer becoming one of the United States' first passenger ferry systems to convert at least part of its fleet from

An international maritime tribunal on Friday ordered Russia to release a Greenpeace ship and 30 people arrested in a protest against Russian Arctic oil

French gas and power group GDF Suez is working on a stock market listing for its Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) subsidiary, Chief Executive Gerard Mestrallet

Between November 9 - 11, 2013, an iceberg measuring 21 miles by 12 miles broke off from Antarctica’s Pine Island

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has been awarded a KRW 198.1 billion (USD 186.4 million) contract to build 5 product tankers according to an exchange filing today. The

Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, the state company that runs the nation’s two ports, will award contracts worth $2.5 billion through 2018 to double

The long-awaited dredge of Miami's port will begin this week as it and other cities up and down the east coast scramble to prepare for the massive ships that