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The United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog are awaiting approval from a country to use its port to load Syria's most deadly chemicals onto a

The members of the G6– a merger of the New World and Grand Alliances – have announced plans to go head-to-head with the P3 network by expanding

DFDS has reported a fire onboard their Ro-Ro vessel Corona Seaways while en route from Frederica to

Cia. Sud Americana de Vapores SA surged the most in more than a year after Die Welt newspaper reported that Latin America’s largest container shipper is

China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group, the country's largest private shipbuilder, said on Wednesday it expects to report a substantial full-year loss just

Eurotunnel Group SA’s ferry arm welcomed a decision by regulators overturning a ruling that would have barred it from operating on the English Channel

Researchers at the University of Hawaii this week have confirmed the discovery of a long-lost World War II-era Japanese mega-submarine, the I-400, lost since

The largest floating object ever constructed has been floated out of dry dock at Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. Here's a time lapse

France will allow private security forces to protect its shipping fleet against the threat of piracy with armed guards, the French government said on

Newly established Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (OSLO-OTC: SALT) announced Tuesday that it has entered into agreements for the purchase of six Kamsarmax and two

Greek shipowner Victor Restis has been conditionally released after spending four months in jail pending trial on money laundering and embezzlement charges,

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, General Electric Co. and a company co-founded by T. Boone Pickens are planning investments in natural-gas-powered shipping as record

It will be the biggest thing ever sent to sea - but as the Prelude FLNG vessel was launched on Tuesday, plans were already under way for something

KKR & Co., the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to sell its Turkish shipping company U.N. Ro-Ro

Malaysia's offshore oil field services firm Bumi Armada Bhd said on Tuesday it will lease six marine vessels to Russian oil firm Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft in

Transport Canada is the federal body responsible for transportation safety and regulation.  Their Marine departments have been working to support the industry

A man accused of leaping a fence at the Seattle waterfront and briefly commandeering a high-speed ferry used to shuttle passengers between Washington state and

Firefighting crews over the weekend were struggling to contain a fire onboard Majestic International's Ocean Countess cruise ship while laid up at a shipyard

A new video has surfaced showing divers discovering a man found tucked inside an air bubble of a the Jascon 4 shipwreck after two days at depth of 30

The German Navy will receive the first of four new ships ordered from ThyssenKrupp later than expected, the defence ministry and the company said on Monday,