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As bigger and bigger containerships are now calling on U.S. ports, the U.S. Coast Guard, along with the San Francisco Bar Pilots, local tug workgroup members

By Balazs Koranyi OSLO, May 22 (Reuters) – The global offshore drilling market’s dip could be longer than previously expected and charter rates

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION America’s open seas have long been a source of prosperity and strength, and since before

The union representing tugboat workers at Australia’s Port Hedland, the world’s biggest bulk export terminal, will suspend taking strike action for the

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) – The crew of a charter boat taking part in a search for four British sailors missing in the Atlantic Ocean has found some

  MSC Cruises has placed a landmark order at Fincantieri today to build two new state-of-the-art cruise ships at a price of 700 million euro each, plus

Currently in the design process by Seattle-based naval architecture firm Jensen Maritime are North America’s first LNG bunker barges for Houston-based

By Oleg Vukmanovic MILAN, May 22 (Reuters) – Angola’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project aims to charter out its entire tanker fleet

Shipbuilders at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany have placed the last of 74 blocks making up the structure of Royal Caribbean's 167,80 gt Quantum

By Mark Shenk May 21 (Bloomberg) — U.S. crude imports dropped to a 17- year low last week as the shale boom bolstered output, moving the nation closer to

Here's a time-lapse video showing salvors raising of a brand new, $10 million yacht that sank during its launch this past Sunday at a shipyard in Anacortes,

Really not much to say here, other than this is what happens when you don’t properly secure the equipment on your

By Elena Mazneva and Stepan Kravchenko May 21 (Bloomberg) — Russia reached a $400 billion deal to supply natural gas to China through a new pipeline over

By James Regan SYDNEY, May 21 (Reuters) – BHP Billiton said on Wednesday it may seek government intervention to avert industrial action by tugboat

On the back of winning a new 5+2 year charter from Maersk Oil and Gas, Hercules Offshore has placed an order today with Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong

Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia’s second-biggest oil and gas producer, scrapped an agreement to buy a quarter of Israel’s largest natural gas field for

By Christian Wienberg May 21 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S’s container- shipping line, the world’s largest, said first-quarter profit more

Jordan-based Arab Ship Management has pleaded guilty in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware to one count of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships

Anthony Attard, a member of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and employee of Toll Group, Australia’s largest transport company, was crushed to death

Global miners and commodity traders are using multiple strategies to lock in favourable rates for shipping costs, anticipating a freight market recovery after