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Norway-based accommodation rig operator Prosafe, announced today that they will be selling their jack-up hotel, the Safe Esbjerg, to a buyer in South East

(Bloomberg) — The cheapest iron ore in 31 months and the lowest shipping costs on record are poised to increase the number of cargoes going to China,

Principals of Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd., the UK-based shipbrokers and agents, have taken delivery of the first vessel built at Daewoo Shipbuilding and

SINGAPORE–Keppel Corp. Ltd. (BN4.SG) Tuesday said it has firmed up contracts to build five additional semisubmersible drilling rigs for Sete Brasil

A spiffy Razzle Dazzle paint scheme is not the only thing new over at Sea Shepherd, the controversial anti-whaling organization run by maritime fugitive Paul

  A (semi) secret government operation quietly wrapped up in April to build what some are calling the US Navy’s coolest structure, a research

Faced with a petition from ToxicsWatch Alliance, an environmental organization in India, the Supreme Court ruled last week that end-of-life ships containing

(Bloomberg) — Daily rates for Panamax vessels, that typically haul coal and grains, plunged to the lowest in more than eight weeks as a glut of ships

(Bloomberg) — Iran probably would attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf only as a “last resort,” according

LONDON–Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. (FOGL.LN) said Monday that a second large international oil company has taken a significant interest in its South

(Bloomberg) — Oil companies off Greenland’s shores may be basing risk assessments on outdated information as icebergs splinter the island’s

Since 1968, Italian Shipping Company Ignazio Messina & C has specialized in offering ro-ro container services to the Red Sea and East Africa.  With a

According to US Coast Guard officials, a 55 year old crew member of the containership Jupiter suffered third degree burns while attempting to put out a fire

Sailors are famous for their love of coffee but they didn’t know that once their supplies of beans run out they can just dip their mugs into the Pacific

Sea Trucks Group, a Netherlands-based offshore supply and support vessel owner, confirmed that four of its sea-going staff were kidnapped in a violent attack

HSBC Bank, the world’s 2nd largest  banking and financial services group, issued a statement late in the week that it had reached a deal to sell HSBC

“Much of Alaska’s coastal area has never had full bottom surveys to measure water depths,” according to Cmdr. James Crocker, commanding

Petrobras signed contracts today with Sete Brasil, Queiroz Galvão, Petroserv, Odebrecht, Odfjell and Seadrill for the chartering and operation of 12

An agreement was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in which Crowley Liner Services, Inc. (CLSI) agreed to plead guilty to

Today’s ship photo is of Shell’s $200 million AHTS, Aiviq, sitting in Dutch Harbor just waiting to go ‘do-what-it-do’ in the Chukchi