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Located 4000 meters off the northern Portuguese shoreline in approximately 50 meters of water, a pioneering piece of floating machinery is delivering up to 2MW

Scheldepoort Repair & Conversion Yard has been awarded a contract to convert the jack-up drilling rig ‘Shelf Explorer’ into offshore hotel

(Bloomberg) — Growth in Hamburg is stalling as Europe’s fiscal crisis spreads into China and other Asian countries, threatening the recovery of

I started to see this “letter” supposedly written by the leader of a Somali Pirate Action Group (PAG) pop up on a few of my regular slapstick humor

Vancouver-based naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd announced today the delivery of the Al Fenci and Al Durrah, the first two new RAmparts 3200 tugs, to

The wreck removal of the infamous Costa Concordia is going to take longer than expected, officials in Italy announced this week. On Monday the Department of

(Bloomberg) — A surplus of oil tankers seeking cargoes in the Persian Gulf expanded, curbing an advance in charter rates for the vessels. There are 20

Controlling rougly 40 percent of the global container trade, the Germans are a superpower in the world of shipping, however that may be coming to an abrupt

SEOUL–STX Pan Ocean Co. (028670.SE), South Korea’s largest bulk carrier by sales, said Tuesday it swung to a net loss in the second quarter as

MUMBAI–The Indian government has selected Mercator Ltd. (526235.BY) to bring crude oil from Iran after it accepted a cover offered by a state-run

COPENHAGEN-Danish shipping conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S(MAERSK-B.KO), banking on the ability of shippers to continue raising freight rates, boosted the

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Record car shipments to China and a rebound in cargoes from Japanese automotive companies recovering from last year’s tsunami

Firefighting crews have continued to make progress on the burned out MSC Flaminia while salvage experts have been successful in reducing the listing of the

The internets erupted last week after INTERPOL issued an easily misunderstood “Red Notice” for “Captain” Paul Watson of the

Tokyo – ClassNK announced today that they have started full scale ship tests to develop a feedback scheme on the design for ships performances in actual

You may survive, but there’s a good chance you’ll need a new pair of drawers. The folks at Schat-Harding have recently set a new freefall lifeboat

While lowering the anchor from USS Tarawa (LHA-1) in 2001, the ship’s anchor, plus 13 shots of chain were lost in a plume of rust and fury of sparks

Someone said there was a ship in this photo, but we couldn’t find it

SEOUL–The world’s top two shipbuilders on Monday posted sharp declines in their second-quarter net profit, bled by the heavy discounts they have

The M/V Tønsberg, a RO/RO vessel was recently voted Ship of the Year. Fathom CTech’s Pete Lockley explored with the owners just what makes this

There’s been a fair bit of discussion lately about the legitimacy of the international fugitive sometimes referred to as “Captain” Paul

The U.S. Navy said one of its guided-missile destroyers collided with an oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. The collision between USS

There’s nothing like being naked to make you feel just a little bit more vulnerable, especially when you’re being circled by a hammerhead shark in

20 miles off Santa Cruz, California, Mark Peters and some friends were fishing for albacore and playing around with a custom underwater “torpedo”

Here is a nice video of a recent dry docking of the Mercy Ship’s hospital Ship AFRICA MERCY. [vimeo 47311612 w=500 h=281] Why Do We Dry Dock? from Mercy