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Rates for capesize bulk carriers on key Asian routes are set to remain firm going into next week due to bad weather in Australia and buoyant fixture activity

Singapore's Keppel Corporation Ltd, the world's top offshore drilling rig maker, said it plans to build its first drillship despite not having a buyer lined

Athens-based drybulk shipper FreeSeas announced Wednesday that the formerly hijacked MV Free Goddess will be returning to service after securing $1.1 million

The cost of a stalled waterway project to link France's Seine river to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands could be cut by around 40 percent to 4.5 billion

In an amended filing with the SEC, Scorpio revealed that it is now offering 26,100,000 shares of common stock in its NYSE debut, up from the original

In the spirit of the upcoming Army/Navy Football game this weekend, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of U.S.Naval Operations, shows us just how excited he is

Bollinger Shipyards delivered the 154 foot patrol craft CHARLES SEXTON yesterday to the 7th Coast Guard District located in Key West, FL.  She is the

The following video shows the cargo ship NOUR M getting beat to crap against a seawall at the port of Rhodes, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea. The

In November 2010, following the tragedy of the Macondo disaster, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a notice to all lessees

ISTANBUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Turkey shut its Bosphorus Strait, a key shipping channel for Russian cargo, to tanker traffic on Wednesday after a snowstorm

The biggest U.S. oil boom in almost a quarter century is prompting refiners in the Gulf of Mexico to book the most tankers since at least 2011 to ship products

Canada's BC Ferries is moving forward with plans to build three car and passenger ferries to run on LNG fuel as the company looks to decrease fuel costs and

Last week's storm Xaver as seen from the ERRV Vos Dee in the North Sea. Winds at 185-190 km/h, swell averaging 12-14 meters, max

A group comprised of 17 oil and gas companies has established a project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents

Germany’s top shipping lenders, including Commerzbank AG and HSH Nordbank AG, face rising credit default risks next year as banks come under increasing

When importing a single cargo by sea requires an average of 36 original documents and 240 copies from 27 parties, the only wonder is that it has taken so long

India’s largest non-state owned shipping firm, Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd, announced plans today to expand their dry bulk fleet with an order to

Nickel, the worst performing base metal this year, offers investors the best opportunity for advances in early 2014 as Indonesia is poised to halt the export

Australia approved on Tuesday major dredging work to expand a coal shipping port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to attract more coal

The wreckage of a wooden steamship that sank 152 years ago in a storm on Lake Huron with no survivors has been found, a Michigan explorer said on