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HMS Lancaster, a 4900 tonne Type 23 Royal Navy frigate makes a rather rough landing at London’s Canary Wharf dock. Video by Meredic

(Bloomberg) — Record production of so-called ultra-light oil from U.S. shale deposits will spur demand for tankers hauling refined fuels because of

(Bloomberg) — ConocoPhillips may cease shipments of liquefied natural gas from the U.S.’s only export terminal in Alaska because of insufficient

Ferus Smit shipyard in Westerbroek, The Netherlands launched the M/V Volgaborg today, the third of three multipurpose cargo ships built for Wagenborg Shipping.

The specialized and offshore vessel designer and shipbuilder formerly known as STX OSV Holdings Limited will now be officially known as VARD, the company said

Over the last few years, the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) / scrubber market within the maritime industry has accelerated and with it so has scrubber

Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal Ltd. today received a combined $1.38 billion in orders for continued purchases of the

With Congress failing to act to prevent sequestration, the president signed the cuts into law at 11:59pm on March 1.  While we’ve been warned of the

By Tom Guldner, President of Marine Firefighting Inc. What measures are in-place to protect them and prevent emergencies aboard LNG ships and at LNG

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Archer Daniels Midland Co unwittingly used a vessel controlled by a sanctioned Iranian shipping firm last

A child stands at the door of a shipping container serving as his accommodation, in Shanghai March 4, 2013. The containers, which house different families,

(Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded while drilling in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in 2010, reinstated

(Bloomberg) — Global shipbuilding capacity is about a third lower than it was at the 2008 peak as yards close or reduce employment, RS Platou Economic

(Bloomberg) — Iran has a $3 billion credit with Turkey over natural gas it sold to its neighbor and may use it to import commercial and leisure ships,

(Bloomberg) — A lack of cargoes is limiting the market to ship liquefied natural gas as production needs to resume in Nigeria and start in Angola for

In July of 2008, a photographer named Robert Demar took a two-day trip aboard Bounty from Port Angeles, WA to Port Albernie, B.C.; taking over 2,000

According to AIS data, the name of the larger ship is the Beks Halil, which departed Singapore on 1 March 2013, the smaller vessel is the Thuan My. It’s

Here is a sneak peak at the U.S. Navy’s new Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), USNS Montford Point. The MLP is a new class of auxiliary support ship,

By Paul Cooper, Vice President of CARIS USA and John Hersey, ARGUS Project Manager for SURVICE Engineering: How is one sailboat captain helping improve

New chartering contracts for LNG are key to improving fuel efficiency in the sector, according to an official from French energy company Total. “The

Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of Mario Vittone’s 8-part series from the U.S. Coast Guard’s formal hearing into the October 29, 2012

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Mar 1 (Reuters) – Cargill made its first grain shipment using an electronic freight document this week as the U.S. agribusiness

By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Mercator Lines has stopped offering a ship for transporting Iranian oil to India due to U.S. political

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Large cranes arrive on board a transport ship at a global shipping port being constructed in Stanford-le-Hope near London March 1, 2013. Three of the five