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Songa Offshore SE has appointed former Ocean Rig and Transocean executive Mark Bessell to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Songa Offshore CEO Bjornar

BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Belgium has arrested a suspected Somali pirate leader believed to have earned millions of dollars in ransom payments over

India has detained an armed ship operated by a U.S. maritime security company and the 35 people on board for failing to produce papers authorizing it to carry

By Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg The big movie this weekend is the well-reviewed Captain Phillips, a high-seas piracy drama based on a 2009 hijacking in which

gCaptain sources have told us that Matson (NYSE:MATX), the Hawaii-headquartered container shipping firm will be signing a very significant order for

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — An oil tanker exploded while undergoing repairs at an eastern China shipyard, killing seven people, injuring one, and causing oil

For those of you who have never seen Dockwise Vanguard in action, and even for those of you who have, it's difficult to comprehend how the float-on is going to

Huntington Ingalls' Newport News Shipbuilding began flooding the dry dock today where the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has been under construction

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the third- largest independent U.S. oil and natural gas producer, said it’s working for the release of a research vessel and

The ongoing U.S. government shutdown has forced the U.S. Navy to cancel the christening of the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) originally scheduled for Oct.

Oil tanker firm Frontline said it would convert $25 million of its outstanding debt due in 2015 to equity, an announcement which sent its share price almost 10

Owners of the Costa Concordia have contracted the world's largest semi-submersible heavy lift ship to lift the now-upright shipwreck and carry it, not tow it,

Titan Salvage's Managing Director, Captain Rich Habib, talks about emerging technology, the Costa Concordia parbuckling and keeping it old

The world's top oil trader Vitol has brought tankers with Asian diesel to Europe via the Arctic Ocean, a journey rarely used for oil, in yet another evidence

Brazil's national oil worker's federation could start an indefinite strike on Oct. 17 if a pay dispute with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileira SA is not

With the U.S. government shutdown now in its 10th day and with no end in sight, the U.S. Coast Guard says that due to processing delays it is granting

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Paul Greengrass’ new thriller, “Captain Phillips,” is torn from the headlines, but

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — STX Pan Ocean Co., South Korea’s largest commodities shipping line, canceled some ship orders as it seeks to revive

Keppel AmFELS, the US-based subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine located in Brownsville, Texas announced the winning of a contract from Central Panuco

Prosecutors allege that the skipper of the yacht sailed too close to the tanker, causing the collision which was all caught on video and went viral.

The crew of an offshore supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico assisted Wednesday in the rescue of four people after the helicopter they were in crashed into the

Florida's PortMiami on Tuesday saw the arrival of four new Super Post-Panamax cranes as the port prepares for larger ships ahead of the opening of the new

Barkhad Abdi, a tall wisp of a man with a narrow face and a wide grin, sat on the sofa in his hotel suite with one eye on the television and another on a view

The ship in Tom Hanks’s new movie is part of a national-security program that’s now in jeopardy because of the government

Russian investigators said they found morphine and opium straw onboard the ship as well as “dual-use” equipment that may have been intended for