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Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — Japan is set to receive its second spot cargo of liquefied natural gas from Norway via the Northern Sea Route as the world’s

Vallianz Holdings Ltd, a Singapore-based offshore services provider has joined forces with Rawabi Holdings to create a new Saudi Arabian-based subsidiary

Nantong Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co. has been awarded a USD $180 million contract from Odfjell for the construction of four 17,000 cbm

SINGAPORE, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd, China’s second-largest listed shipyard, said it had won shipbuilding

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) an award today to build a wide-area seabed

Crude oil shipments from the Port of Victoria in south Texas hit a record of over 60,000 barrels per day in August, the port director said on Monday, as more

Seaspan Corporation (NYSE:SSW) announced Monday that it has exercised options for the construction of five 10,000 TEU class containerships at subsidiaries of

Gibbs & Cox is looking to expand its naval architecture and marine engineering business through acquisition noted company CEO Rick Biben in a phone call

“Charges will be filed shortly,” the Investigative Committee in Moscow said on its website today, although they seem to be backing away from the

Crews in South Africa responded over weekend to a fire that broke out in the cargo hold of a fully-laden containership which was at anchor just off the Port of

Seventy-four Chinese fishermen were missing after a typhoon in the South China Sea sank three ships, the official Xinhua News Agency reported

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest shipping line, fell the most in a week in Copenhagen trading on

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — The widened Panama Canal will cut costs to ship U.S. cooking and heating gases to Asia by shortening voyages, effectively lowering

Danish toy brick building group Lego has unveiled its plans for a Lego-version of Maersk Line's record breaking Triple-E, aka the world largest

China Shipping announced today they have sold the 1993-built, 35,000 deadweight product tanker Ming Chi to Digang Shipyard for a total consideration of

Should U.S. disaster relief require American-grown food? Those with the best intentions may miss the full picture By Bruce Vail The next time news of a natural

By Ronnie Cohen Sept 28 (Reuters) – An Australian winemaker and his son, who own an island off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, have officially

A bridge in Jacksonville, Florida has been closed after it was struck Thursday afternoon by a RoRo cargo ship operated by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift

Jumbo this month saw the launch of the first ship in the heavy lift company’s new K3000 class, named Jumbo Kinetic, at the Brodosplit Shipyard in Split,

The Japanese-flagged cargo ship Eifuku Maru No. 18 capsized after colliding with the Sierra Leone-flagged Jia Hui about 7 miles west of Izu Oshima island,