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FRANKFURT, April 23 (Reuters) – NordLB’s, one of the world’s top ten ship financiers, expects the shipping industry to have passed its

Investigators to look into the 400 boxes of dead anteaters found beneath the cargo hold

Long exposure going under the Fred Hartmann Bridge on the Houston Ship Channel. Image by Lou Vest/Oneighteen See more of his fantastic photography on his

 There are currently 94 LNG carrier new builds on order.  Here’s where they are being built, and who’s buying them. Data via: Petroleum

Clarkson Plc, the world’s largest shipbroker, began publishing new shipping rates, discontinued others, and revised historical ones to reflect changes

Deal marks Navios' entry into the container ship

In front of one of the most packed audiences of last week’s LNG 17 conference in Houston, Texas, ExxonMobil’s Chief Offshore Engineer, Ro Lokken,

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a portion of the Mississippi River near St. Louis after 114 barges broke free late

New joint venture intends to search and recover polymetallic nodules found several kilometers beneath the ocean's

(Bloomberg) — Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. surged to 5 1/2-year high on a Nikkei report it plans to hold merger talks with Kawasaki Heavy

(Bloomberg) — MISC Bhd., the world’s second- largest shipper of liquefied natural gas, tumbled the most in 14 years in Kuala Lumpur stock trading

A fisherman pulls in his net as the 49k DWT product tanker, Alnasl Star transfers cargo at the northwestern Saudi Arabia port city of Duba on 20 April 2013.

OSLO, April 21 (Reuters) – Norway took a major step towards opening up an environmentally sensitive Arctic area to oil and gas exploration when the

By Lambros Papaeconomou, NYFEX Asset Management LLC Dry cargo shipping company Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. (EXM) saw its share price drop almost 45%

Two Noble drillships under construction at HHI will go to Gulf of Mexico under three-year contracts.

Barge shipping was halted Friday on parts of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers as flooding forced the closure of several locks until at least the middle of

The Navy has missed the deadline in sending in the “Annual Naval Vessel Construction Plan” to

(Bloomberg) — Greek ship owners, who control more vessels than those of any other country, are buying the most iron-ore carriers since before the global

The European Parliament on Thursday backed plans that would help make the scrapping of old ships safer, but voted against a proposal for a recycling fund

The U.S. Navy's first littoral combat ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1), has arrived in Singapore, highlighting the next phase of her deployment to Southeast

Investing in our ocean’s health will help not only respond to future disasters, but also better withstand their

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspicious package found near a Royal Caribbean cruise ship at the Port of

The first caissons, or sponsons, have been installed on the port side of the Costa

The specialized nuclear transport ships Pacific Heron and Pacific Egret left the Cherbourg Harbor in northern France on April 17th

Vale mega ship called at a port in eastern China this week, marking the first entry of the vessels since Beijing banned them in January