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(Bloomberg) — A Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary plans to seek $750 million for a fund managed by former General Electric Co. shipping-team members that will

Maersk Line’s CEO Soren Skou kicks off TPM 2013 with the keynote speech. Watch it

(Bloomberg) — A 39 percent jump in iron-ore cargoes over the next three years will fail to offset a surplus of the biggest ships hauling the steelmaking

Ulstein Verft delivered Blue Power today, the third of six medium-sized Ulstein PX121 platform supply vessels (PSV) to Blue Ship Invest, a wholly-owned

COPENHAGEN, March 6 (Reuters) – Danish shipping company Norden on Wednesday reported a slim fourth quarter operating profit but said it expected markets

By James Regan and Benjamin Mallet PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) – France’s Bourbon SA, which supplies ships for the oil and gas industry, sees

(Bloomberg) — Indonesia, the world’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, will start importing the fuel by 2018 to meet increasing

Today’s ship photo is to remind us that the vast majority of ocean towing operations go off without a hitch. It’s almost hard to believe

The non-profit ocean research group OCEARCH is at it again, doing good things for mother nature. On 3 March, their team captured, tagged, studied, and released

Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday unveiled plans to build two small-scale liquefaction units in Ontario and Louisiana as the company looks to bring liquefied

By Kyunghee Park March 6 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s biggest container-shipping company, plans to add more vessels

Seadrill announced today they have ordered two high specification jack-up drilling rigs to be built at China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company

HMS Lancaster, a 4900 tonne Type 23 Royal Navy frigate makes a rather rough landing at London’s Canary Wharf dock. Video by Meredic

(Bloomberg) — Record production of so-called ultra-light oil from U.S. shale deposits will spur demand for tankers hauling refined fuels because of

(Bloomberg) — ConocoPhillips may cease shipments of liquefied natural gas from the U.S.’s only export terminal in Alaska because of insufficient

Ferus Smit shipyard in Westerbroek, The Netherlands launched the M/V Volgaborg today, the third of three multipurpose cargo ships built for Wagenborg Shipping.

The specialized and offshore vessel designer and shipbuilder formerly known as STX OSV Holdings Limited will now be officially known as VARD, the company said

Over the last few years, the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) / scrubber market within the maritime industry has accelerated and with it so has scrubber

Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal Ltd. today received a combined $1.38 billion in orders for continued purchases of the

With Congress failing to act to prevent sequestration, the president signed the cuts into law at 11:59pm on March 1.  While we’ve been warned of the

By Tom Guldner, President of Marine Firefighting Inc. What measures are in-place to protect them and prevent emergencies aboard LNG ships and at LNG

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Archer Daniels Midland Co unwittingly used a vessel controlled by a sanctioned Iranian shipping firm last

A child stands at the door of a shipping container serving as his accommodation, in Shanghai March 4, 2013. The containers, which house different families,

(Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded while drilling in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in 2010, reinstated

(Bloomberg) — Global shipbuilding capacity is about a third lower than it was at the 2008 peak as yards close or reduce employment, RS Platou Economic