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On November 2, 2013, the 146,600-gt cruise ship Norwegian Getaway was floated out from Meyer Werft's covered building dock II, where the ship has been under

On Saturday October 19th, the fourth Maersk Triple-E Class vessel MV Mary Maersk arrived at the Deurganckdock in the Port of Antwerp in

Centrica Plc agreed to extend a liquefied natural gas accord with Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. to December 2018 as the U.K. seeks to offset declining production

The perils of the new Arctic shipping route, warmed by climate change, may diminish with a British-Russian radio navigation initiative, under development to

The MV Fernanda has lost its battle with an engine room fire and the ship will now head to a site for

BAE Systems Plc, Europe’s largest defense company, will cease warship production at the historic Portsmouth site on the English coast and eliminate

The Netherlands asked an international court on Wednesday to order Russia to release 30 people detained during a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the

VIKING new VIKING LifeCraftâ„¢ system is said to combine all the advantages of modern lifeboats - such as self-propelled maneuverability - with the

Mexican armed forces have taken charge of security in the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas, a major cargo hub in a part of the country struggling to contain

Italy will immediately begin to limit large cruise ship traffic in the Venice lagoon and the biggest vessels - of more than 96,000 gross tonnes - will be

On October 28, 2013, the first of three new-generation stealth destroyers for the U.S. Navy, the ZUMWALT (DDG 1000), was launched at Bath Iron Works shipyard

The U.S. could issue its next ruling on exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas in one to two months, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

The Kiel Canal in Germany remained open to ship traffic Tuesday as crews refloat the grounded MV

Singapore's Sembcorp Marine Ltd said on Tuesday its net profit for the third quarter of the year grew 12.3 percent to S$130 million due in part to foreign

MV Marie Maersk the fourth installment in Maersk Line's new Triple-E class containerships, has entered service by calling at Busan, South Korea recently before

New pictures released Monday by the Icelandic Coast Guard provide some more insight into damage caused by an engine room fire onboard the MV Fernanda off the

A search is underway for the missing captain of a general cargo ship which sank over the weekend west of the Greek island of

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling into question new rules implemented by the French government concerning CO2 reporting requirements for

Heerema Marine Contractors’ new self propelled heavy lift crane vessel named Aegir has won the Dutch Association of Ship Owners (KVNR) Shipping Award at

By Gavin van Marle, There have been few sectors of the liner shipping business that have done well over the past few years, but businesses leasing both

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) announced today they have signed a newbuild order with an undisclosed European shipowner for four chemical tankers for a total

The following is an informational bulletin from gCaptain sponsor Wärtsilä Upcoming environmental regulations will affect existing vessels, and as a

SEOUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) – At least 19 North Korean sailors were killed when a naval vessel sank during “combat duties” off the east coast last

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — Iran will lead a club of the world’s biggest natural gas exporters as its own shipments abroad are hampered by U.S. and

By Rich Madden, Cyber-security issues onboard your typical merchant vessel would seem to be fall into one of two categories – acts of omission or