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

Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) announced this weekend the 30,500 dwt semi-submersible barge POSH Mogami, owned by PACC Offshore Services

China raised its net diesel exports to the highest level in four years as domestic demand trailed output growth amid a slowing

Three months after winning the $4 billion project to supply and operate a pair of FPSOs offshore Angola for Total, Saipem has selected Sembcorp Marine’s

After 2 and a half years shipwrecked along the small island of Giglio, the end is finally within

The Obama administration on Friday approved a plan that would allow companies to assess oil resources off the Atlantic Coast, angering environmental groups

Captain Jose Claus, a Panama Canal pilot with 22-years of experience guiding ships along this vital passage, strongly believes the locks for the new Panama

After a trans-Atlantic voyage from Brande, Denmark, and navigating through the Great Lakes, BBC Chartering’s Peter Roenna arrived this week into Clure

This new time-lapse provides some good visual evidence that progress is being made in the operation to refloat the Costa Concordia shipwreck.

Britain’s biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth took to the water for the first time this week as she was floated out of dry

The four-decade-old ban on most crude exports from the U.S., now the world’s largest producer, will be weakened bit by bit as government rulings allow

“There is nothing going on here so you should probably find something else to do with your time,” commented the person who answered the phone at

Seaway Heavy Lifting’s Stanislav Yudin completed the installation of the Westermost Rough substation for Dong Energy last month. Dong Energy just

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell by 5.5 percent to $1,230 per 20-foot container (TEU) in the week

From now on, Wartsila’s 2-stroke engine business will be listed as “discontinued operations” following an announcement today that it has sold

StealthGas announced today four new additions to their newbuilding program consisting of two Korean-built 22,000 cbm semi-refrigerated LPG carriers and two

Cheniere Energy subsidiary Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC announced the signing today of a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement

The gas engine that will soon power the TOTE's new Marlin-class containerships have been delivered to General Dynamics’ NASSCO’s shipyard in San Diego, CA,

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (AKPS) is cruising along these days with a steady stream of work building Jones Act-compliant tankers for both their clients and

A helicopter involved in the search for those still missing from the Sewol ferry disaster has crashed in South