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The captain of the Costa Concordia told a court on Monday that a junior officer who was at the wheel at the time shared the blame for the cruise liner

The platform supply vessel (PSV) ‘Blue Protector’ was delivered today from Ulstein Verft and is now available for charter on the North Sea spot

On September 13, this one-eyed flea-ridden kitten was rescued in Troutdale, Oregon and has since turned into a global internet sensation. When “Sir

DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Qatargas is not obliged to ship any liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Britain’s Dragon import terminal under a five-year

Many analysts, public and private equity investors and shipowners seem to believe the dry bulk order book has declined materially over the past eight and

Update: As of 3PM Bahrain local time, the search for the two missing crew members has been suspended. The U.S. Navy notes in a statement, “Navy officials

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA) announced today that it has agreed to extend the existing charters on the LR1 Product Tankers Nave Atropos,

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — Liquefied natural gas traders in northwest Europe won’t buy many short-term cargoes of the fuel until U.S. export projects

HONG KONG, Sept 23 (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon hit Hong Kong and the southern China coast on Monday, killing at least 20 people on the mainland,

At least two people are dead and thousands are without power in the Philippines after Typhoon Usagi tore through the Luzon Strait on Thursday with wind gusts

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Brazil’s government plans to finance state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s participation in the

New regulations that will make it mandatory for containers to be weighed – or have their stated weight otherwise verified – are set to be

Sounds like the Panamanian-flagged MV Stargold Trader is lucky it hasn't already spontaneously

The Scarabeo 5, a 4th-generation semi-submersible drilling rig built in 1990 by Fincantieri for Saipem has caught fire today while drydocked at the Keppel

Stolen Nigerian oil worth billions of dollars is sold every year on international markets and much of the proceeds are laundered in world financial centres

Many European import terminals for shipped gas may have to be idled because of falling deliveries unless they try their hands at alternative businesses such as

Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Nordea Bank AB, Scandinavia’s biggest lender, said the shipping industry will next year begin to recover from its worst

Emirates Team New Zealand has 6 more “match points” left following yesterday’s race where they were handily beaten by Oracle Team USA. The

A federal judge accepted a Halliburton Co. unit’s guilty plea to destroying tests conducted on cement work connected to the BP Plc-owned well that

Finnish oil refining and marketing firm Neste Oil has announced it will be selling off its entire fleet of ships and will outsource all ship management

Discovery Channel has just released this new time lapse video of the Costa Concordia parbuckling, offering viewers another view of the 19 hour operation in

UPDATE: 10:50 EST – An armed Russian security team has just fast-roped on to the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise and “are breaking into our comms

In Ninety Percent of Everything, Rose George goes inside the shipping industry, traveling on the container ship, Kendal, from Felixstowe, England to

By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Angola’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant is to ship its fourth ever cargo early next week

Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE: STNG) has announced that four MR product tankers under construction in South Korea will be added to their fleet in exchange for