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A subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine Ltd. (S51.SG) has secured a contract worth US$434 million to construct two jack-up rigs for Mexico’s Integradora de

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command on Wednesday accepted delivery of the Navy’s first joint high-speed vessel (JHSV), USNS Spearhead, at

Update 3: Five bodies have been recovered and six are still missing in the North Sea.  AIS Data and damage photos of the Corvus J can be found here.

By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The largest U.S. cargo shipping complex resumed full operations on Wednesday after harbor clerks

gCaptain has just received these exclusive photos of this week’s jack-up rig accident at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. Monday’s incident left 89

TOKYO–JFE Holdings Inc. (5411.TO) and IHI Corp. (7013.TO) on Tuesday said they will proceed with a Jan. 1 merger of their shipbuilding operations,

Striking clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have agreed with management to federal mediation in hopes to put an end to a week long

NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. gives us an inside look at the training process San Francisco Bar pilots go through, including simulator training held at

General Dynamics NASSCO announced today the signing of a historic a contract with TOTE, Inc. calling for the design and construction of up to five 3,100 TEU

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two Mexican nationals were charged on Monday in the death of a U.S. Coast Guard petty officer who was thrown

Requesting permission to board, Captain. Lolo, a motorcycle journalist for Moto Journal, shows you how not to ride your Yamaha bike around

ROME (Reuters) – Eleven Somali men who attacked an Italian oil tanker in January were each jailed for three and a half years on Tuesday after a Rome

ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and nine others were missing after a cargoship with a Ukrainian and Russian crew sank in a

Christian Waldegrave, Market Analyst from Teekay presents the factors that contributed to this year’s boost in tanker demand in the first half of the

The master and owners of Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Hope Star have been fined and had criminal convictions recorded by an Australian court following the

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is importing the most ethanol in four years after the country’s worst drought in a half century drove corn prices to a

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Freighters with no place to unload their cargo lined up at anchorages off Los Angeles and Long Beach for a seventh day on Monday

The International Maritime Organization has agreed with international cruise industry recommendations requiring passenger safety drills to take place prior to,

Wärtsilä said Monday the company has been awarded a contract to provide the gas powered propulsion machinery and storage and handling systems for North

RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian mining giant VALE SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) believes global demand for iron ore is “far from peaking,” though growth in

The world’s largest containership, CMA CGM’s M/V Marco Polo transited the Suez Canal over the weekend while on her maiden voyage from the Far East

Not to be outdone by their friends in Hong Kong, Los Angeles-based investment management firm, Oaktree Capital, and the Rickmers Group have joined forces

Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has confirmed that all shipyard workers have been accounted for after a jack-up rig accident injured 89 at Jurong

(Bloomberg) — Carlyle Group LP and Tiger Group Investments’ ship fund is in talks about financing new vessels with five container lines as higher

At the Marine Money Conference in New York City two weeks ago, Dr. David Zervos, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist at Jefferies & Company gave