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Here are two interviews conducted by the Dutch website NOS.nl with rescuers involved in the Baltic Ace sinking. We have provided the english translation below

(Bloomberg) — Brazil announced measures to increase private investment in its port system in a bid to boost capacity and reduce transport costs that

It’s been 71 years since Japan attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, the single catastrophic event that launched the United States into World

Equipped with built-in ramps and long tiers of decks, Roll On Roll Off (RoRo) ships are essentially floating parking garages that allow vehicles to be driven

Freight shippers are starting to make contingency plans in case labor strife idles seaports along the U.S. East Coast, just as they begin recovering from an

Coast Guardsmen from several Honolulu-based units responded to a vessel on fire approximately 69 miles northwest of Maui on Wednesday evening. A mayday call

COPENHAGEN, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A U.S. port workers union has accused APM Terminals, a port operator of A.P. Moller-Maersk, of spying on union

By Marc Levinson (Bloomberg) — Striking clerks at the nation’s largest port complex, in Southern California, agreed to return to work on Dec. 5,

The Baltic Ace sank within 15 minutes of colliding with the containership Corvus J Wednesday night approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) off the southeastern

(Bloomberg) — Natural gas exports would have “net economic benefits” for the U.S., according to a study commissioned by the Energy

A subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine Ltd. (S51.SG) has secured a contract worth US$434 million to construct two jack-up rigs for Mexico’s Integradora de

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command on Wednesday accepted delivery of the Navy’s first joint high-speed vessel (JHSV), USNS Spearhead, at

Update 3: Five bodies have been recovered and six are still missing in the North Sea.  AIS Data and damage photos of the Corvus J can be found here.

By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The largest U.S. cargo shipping complex resumed full operations on Wednesday after harbor clerks

gCaptain has just received these exclusive photos of this week’s jack-up rig accident at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. Monday’s incident left 89

TOKYO–JFE Holdings Inc. (5411.TO) and IHI Corp. (7013.TO) on Tuesday said they will proceed with a Jan. 1 merger of their shipbuilding operations,

Striking clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have agreed with management to federal mediation in hopes to put an end to a week long

NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. gives us an inside look at the training process San Francisco Bar pilots go through, including simulator training held at

General Dynamics NASSCO announced today the signing of a historic a contract with TOTE, Inc. calling for the design and construction of up to five 3,100 TEU

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two Mexican nationals were charged on Monday in the death of a U.S. Coast Guard petty officer who was thrown

Requesting permission to board, Captain. Lolo, a motorcycle journalist for Moto Journal, shows you how not to ride your Yamaha bike around

ROME (Reuters) – Eleven Somali men who attacked an Italian oil tanker in January were each jailed for three and a half years on Tuesday after a Rome

ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and nine others were missing after a cargoship with a Ukrainian and Russian crew sank in a

Christian Waldegrave, Market Analyst from Teekay presents the factors that contributed to this year’s boost in tanker demand in the first half of the

The master and owners of Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Hope Star have been fined and had criminal convictions recorded by an Australian court following the