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Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., a South Korean yard that is undergoing debt rescheduling, led a decline among shipyards

Located about 425 km off Western Australia’s northern coast, the Browse Basin was expected to be one of Australia’s next major LNG production

“Stand by for some big news,” mentioned Bob Burke when I ran into him in Connecticut this spring. I met Bob a little over a year ago when we

The PR nightmare for Carnival Cruise Lines continued Thursday when a report published by the cruise ship news website, CruiseCritic.com, said the Carnival

We have all heard that tsunamis pass harmlessly beneath ships at sea, and that their true force doesn’t present itself until the seafloor rises to force

By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) – The partners in Russia’s Yamal liquefied natural gas project are in talks to ship cargoes to

By American Association of Port Authorities With the release [Wednesday] of President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget, the American Association of Port

SMIT and Sudamericana Agencias Aereas y Maritimas (SAAM) are teaming up in a joint harbor towing operation that will involve two joint ventures and the

HONG KONG, April 11 (Reuters) – Hong Kong police charged two boat captains with manslaughter on Thursday in connection with a ferry collision last year

The Russian ship captain of a Maltese-flagged freighter has been sentenced in Oregon to pay a $1,000 fine for operating his ship with a BAC that was over four

Princess Cruises announced Tuesday that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge will name the newest addition to the line’s fleet, Royal Princess.

A NTSB investigation into a fatal 2011 liftboat accident in the Gulf of Mexico has found that the owners/operators and charterers failed to assess and prepare

The stranded crew of an arrested bulk carrier off the coast of Chennai, India were forced to abandon ship Tuesday fearing that the vessel would sink, but only

A woman was taken into custody by the San Diego Police Dept. Tuesday after trying to steal a research ship belonging to the Scripps Institution of

The USS Kearsarge transits the Suez Canal in this new timelapse from the U.S. Navy. Like this? Check out our collection of other great timelapse photography

By Silvia Ognibene GROSSETO, Italy, April 10 (Reuters) – Costa Cruises, the unit of Carnival Corp that owned and operated the capsized cruise liner Costa

By James Pomfret and Grace Li HONG KONG, April 10 (Reuters) – Striking dock workers at a port operator backed by Hong Kong’s richest man Li

April 10 (Bloomberg) — Tanzania sees natural-gas reserves more than doubling by early 2015 from the 40 trillion cubic feet discovered by companies

(Bloomberg) — A glut of oil tankers competing to haul 2 million-barrel cargoes of crude from ports in the Persian Gulf is set to stay at the highest

The Philippine Coast Guard said Tuesday that a Chinese fishing vessel has run aground on the Tubbataha Reef, just ten days after the final section of the

“Can a sign prevent kids from drowning on cruise ships?” asked Kim Browning, a parent and frequent cruise ship guest, in a message sent to gCaptain

The U.S. Navy on Monday said that recent technological breakthroughs have led to the development of a shipboard laser capable of shooting down an enemy drone

(Bloomberg) — Striking dockworkers at Hongkong International Terminals Ltd., the port operator backed by billionaire Li Ka-shing, will hold talks with

At 0540 local time on Wednesday 26 September 2012, the Indonesian ferry, KMP Bahuga Jaya, sank after colliding with the I.M. Skaugen-owned LPG/Chemical

(Bloomberg) — Vantage Drilling Co. sued a BP Plc unit over what it claims was a $265.5 million increase in financing costs stemming from the 2010 Gulf of