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Second official trailer for the movie "Captain Phillips", the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama, has been released. Watch the trailer

Oil leaking from the bulk carrier Kiani Satu, which ran aground in heavy weather on Thursday has forced South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs, in

By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Suspected al Qaeda militants killed four Yemeni soldiers in their sleep early on Sunday in an attack on

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Vale SA, the biggest iron-ore producer, forecasts the steel-making ingredient’s main buyer China will increase steel output

By Gavin van Marle In a sign of just how weak the container shipping market has become this year, the parent company of Hong Kong-based box carrier OOCL

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — China will surpass the U.S. by October to become the world’s biggest net oil importer on a monthly basis, the Energy

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — OAO Novatek, Russia’s second-biggest natural-gas producer, rose the most in five weeks in Moscow trading after earnings beat

Five more lawsuits have been filed this week against Signal International LLC, accusing the shipbuilder and its network of recruiters and labor brokers of

GENEVA, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Nigeria will export four cargoes of Bonny Light crude oil in September, a shipping list showed, boosting monthly exports for

In an exchange filing today, China COSCO announced their plans to scrap 13 ships, consisting of 4 container vessels totaling 11,207 TEU and 9 bulk carriers of

IHC Merwede announced today over €1 billion in new orders have just been received for the design, engineering and construction of six, 550-ton pipelay

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (APSI) and Crowley Corporation have announced today a partnership to build four Jones Act-compliant, 50,000 dwt, 330,000-barrel

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Statoil ASA are among oil explorers investing at least $3 billion in wells off Angola next year in the

By Kevin Reeder, The maritime industry’s promise to ensure maximum availability of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) to mariners is close to

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announced today that their Type-0 heavy lift vessel, the Dockwise Vanguard has just finished a contract supporting the repair

Petrobras has extended their contract for DOF Subsea’s Skandi Vitória for an additional two years beginning in September 2013. The vessel is owned

South Africa’s National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has reported that as of 1002 local time, all 19 crew members from the bulk carrier Kiani Satu are

By Andrew Callus LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – A strange-looking vessel inspired by the exotic sucker fish is due to leave Norway for Brazil’s giant

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — NITC, Iran’s biggest tanker company, increased the capacity of its supertanker fleet by 23 percent this year amid sanctions

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Nippon Yusen K.K., Japan’s largest shipping line, said development of deepsea Brazilian oil and Australian gas will boost

Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd., the world’s largest offshore rig contractor, posted a second-quarter profit after running its vessels more

Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Yemen’s government said it uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to seize port facilities in the volatile southeastern province of

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it has conditionally authorized Lake Charles Exports, LLC to export domestically produced liquefied

On Monday, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller containership entered the Gulf of Aden on its way westward toward the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, approximately 800

By Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, Director, Undersea Warfare, OPNAV N97 USS Miami was set ablaze by an arsonist in May 2012. The Navy recently completed a