gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

A tanker fully laden with diesel fuel has found out first hand that the Northern Sea Route is no place for taking

China Shipbuilding Industry Co., a supplier to the Chinese army, plans to raise as much as 8.48 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) from the sale of shares to acquire

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A heads up tugboat crew helped in averting a potentially disastrous situation late Friday night when they hauled in a 250-foot, unlit and unmanned grain barge

Owners of the stricken MV Smart say that there is no evidence to suggest that mechanical or structural failure contributed to the ship breaking up outside

South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. said Monday that Kang Duk-Soo will be stepping down from his post as Chairman of the struggling

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas from the proposed Freeport LNG export plant in Texas,

By Isaac Arnsdorf Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — The cost of shipping raw materials surged the most in more than four years as strengthening steel prices in China

(Bloomberg) — Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., the heavy machinery maker whose merger talks with Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. fell apart

The Tanzanian-registered cargo ship MV Gold Star, loaded with an estimated 30 tons of cannabis, caught fire on Friday 6 September while in international waters

Researchers at the University of Houston have uncovered the largest single volcano on earth, laying thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Caterpillar Marine has announced the acquisition of Johan Walter Berg AB has successfully closed. The merger deal between CAT and Berg was announced on July

GasLog (NYSE: GLOG) announced further expansion of their shipping fleet today in the form of an additional LNG carrier from Singapore-based STX Pan Ocean.

Air officials in the U.K. have ruled out technical failure in last month’s fatal crash of a Super Puma helicopter in the North Sea near Scotland’s

By Sarah Young and Stephen Eisenhammer ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept 6 (Reuters) – At one of the largest oil shows in the world in Scotland’s oil town

Authorities in Italy have given engineers the green light to carry out the parbuckling of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship at the Island of

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Thursday announced that 52 transportation projects in 37 states will receive a total of $474 million in 2013

Sept 6 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index jumped 5.71 percent on Friday due to increased activity across all vessels,

Tighter regulations covering sulphur emissions, which imposes limits on the sulphur content of the heavy fuel oil (HFO) burned has become an important

HONG KONG, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Shanghai shares climbed to an 11-week closing high on Friday, helped by counters linked to sea transport after local media

By Mark Drajem Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) — Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise operator, agreed to spend $180 million to cut sulfur emissions

The Port of Houston Authority has officially welcomed the first of a series of new high-performance emergency response vessels for enhanced security and fire

A new video has surfaced on youtube showing, allegedly, the recent attack on the COSCO Asia containership in the Suez

This summer Google took their cameras on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s 272-foot research vessel, Falkor, while on a visit to the San Francisco

The U.S. Coast Guards says it was called upon Monday to assist with the delivery of a baby aboard a cargo ship about 100 miles southwest of San