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Nicaraguan lawmakers granted a 50-year concession to a Chinese company on Thursday for it to design, build and manage a shipping channel across the Central

U.S. flag climbs makes it back onto the Paris MoU "White List".

DNV has become the first class society to achieve the status of an Independent Laboratory (IL) for the evaluation, inspection, and testing of ballast water

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan’s second-biggest heavy-equipment maker, removed Satoshi Hasegawa as president as it ended merger talks with Mitsui

A fire broke out aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz while underway in the Indian Ocean on June 7, the U.S. Navy said

With a storage capacity of 2.3 million barrels, the FPSO is believed to be the largest ever built.

A.P. Moller-Maersk will pay about $100 million less than predicted for 20 mega-size container vessels ordered from Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

Five people now under investigation for the May 7 incident at the Port of

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose for the fifth straight day on Wednesday, as

MAIB report on the investigation into the structural failure and foundering of the general cargo ship Swanland in the Irish Sea with the loss of six crew on 27

The M/V Asian Express, a Maldives-flagged general cargo ship, had suffered an engine failure and was adrift for two days in heavy weather about 200 miles west

Incat Crowther and Marine Engineering Consultants (MEC) have started on the construction of a 24m long-range catamaran patrol vessel that will work to protect

After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat 30 meters below the surface, Harrison Okene was sure he

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday it expects greater losses in Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas production from tropical storms than

South Korean container shippers are joining a wave of their international peers in giving up on Iranian business ahead of new U.S. sanctions in July, adding to

Drybulk shipper Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd intends to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the latest victim of a downturn in the shipping

The president of a Louisiana towing company is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to using his personal and business accounts to fund

Spot rates to ship liquefied natural gas will be unprofitable in the next two years as shorter voyages curb demand and new vessels join the fleet, according to

The surplus of tankers competing to ship 2 million-barrel oil cargoes from ports in the Persian Gulf expanded for a second

Ten crew members were rescued from a new Indian-flagged cargo ship following a maiden voyage engine failure that left the vessel stuck off the Konkan coast in

The U.S. may ban ships from entering Nigeria to protest insecurity in the ports and waterways of sub- Saharan Africa’s second-biggest

Two years after Tim Taylor and Christine Dennison put up $750,000 to find and document the R-12, and 70 years after the vessel sank, the two explorers are

First photos showing the Maersk Triple-E

News sources around the world are reporting the Chinese company, HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd., is fast-tracking plans with the

Last Wednesday I wrote an article about the epidemic, more like trend to be exact, of Greek shipping companies issuing preferred shares to boost their equity