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CALGARY, Alberta, March 18 (Reuters) – Canada’s government will examine strengthening oil tanker safety, including introducing new laws and

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, more commonly known as “K” Line, said Monday that it has placed an order for five eco-friendly Ultra Large Container

The burned out MSC Flaminia has left the Jade-Weser Port in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and is sailing under its own power to a repair yard in Romania where it will

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s NITC has replaced Hamid Behbahani, a former minister and ally of President Mahmoud

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday called on the cruise ship industry to voluntarily adopt a new “Bill of Rights” to protect cruise ship

By Rob Sheridan (Bloomberg) — Rates for Panamax ships climbed to the highest level in almost eight months on increased demand to move grains and

DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) – National Shipping Co of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) is considering a debut Islamic bond issue to help refinance debt taken on for

Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard announced today they have secured orders from repeat customer Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro,

(Bloomberg) — Japan’s bid to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement may make it easier for the nation to import U.S.

After a fire destroyed the Grizzly Tour Lodge in British Columbia, Canada last fall, owner Dean Wyatt was fortunate enough to find another lodge for sale on

By Ryan Erickson I still remember the first time ME1 (formerly MK1) Sean Lawler called me up to tell me about this guy who decided he was going to

(Bloomberg) — Hercules Offshore Inc., a drilling- rig supplier, won the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its executive pay decisions that a judge said

By Phil Wahba March 15 (Reuters) – Cruise operator Carnival Corp, grappling with a series of recent headline-grabbing mishaps involving its ships, said

Update: In a statement posted later on Friday, the Coast Guard said that fter the barge was removed from the scene and taken to a secure location, offloading

The following is an advisory from the US Maritime Administration in its entirety: Date Issued: 13 March 2013 1. THIS MARAD ADVISORY PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO

Austal announced today their first-in-series Cape Class Patrol Boat built for the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has been officially named

By Sarah Mahoney PORTLAND, Maine, March 15 (Reuters) – A civilian painter who twice set fires on a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine last year so that he could

Statoil announced today that they have signed a three year contract with Stena Drilling to contract their drillship, Stena Carron, for exploration drilling in

With its entire fleet under a microscope, Carnival Corporation said Friday that another one of its cruise ships, the Carnival Legend, is experiencing technical

The U.S. Navy-contracted vessels Jascon 25 and the tugboat Archon Tide are positioned next to the Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship ex-Guardian (MCM 5)

(Bloomberg) — Prosafe SE fell the most in almost seven months in Oslo as a share sale equivalent to 5.7 percent of the company outweighed the effect of

(Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container line, rose the most in 10 days in Copenhagen trading after freight

By Bibhudatta Pradhan (Bloomberg) — India’s top court told the Italian ambassador to New Delhi not to leave the country without its permission as

By Alister Bull WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) – The United States slapped financial sanctions on Thursday on a Greek businessman it says secretly

By Colleen Jenkins and Phil Wahba March 14 (Reuters) – A Carnival Cruise Lines ship with 5,600 passengers and crew was stuck at a Caribbean port with