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The QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1874 and yet it is still used today, largely unchanged. What’s more, the keyboard doesn’t come close to the

Bloomberg has reported that an arrest warrant has been issued for the MS Carnival Triumph in Galveston, TX as ordered by a U.S. judge following a lawsuit filed

JAKARTA (Dow Jones)–Indonesia aims to sell 54 cargoes of liquefied natural gas in the spot market in May, a senior official at upstream regulator BPMigas

By Nathan Hodge, WSJ Washington Wire Blog The Navy’s long-term shipbuilding plan is usually an item that’s only of interest to budget wonks. But in

Very few films really portray what it looks and feels like to work in the offshore industry, but Maersk clearly put some effort into this and did an amazing

This might be the most substantial infographic we’ve ever seen from the shipping industry, and it gives an interesting top-down look at what a global

Following yesterdays amazing visualization showing us for the first time what wind over the United States actually looks like, now we take a look at what ocean

23 March -29 March 2012 We had a very strange and difficult week in the oil markets this week, but ship owners and charterers will be glad to see

Signet Weatherly is the latest RAmparts 3200 Class ASD from the design board of Robert Allan Ltd. Recently delivered to her proud owner, Signet Maritime

via VolvoOceanRace.com Skipper Ian Walker supervised an incredible five-hour job that saw 30 bolts screwed through the hull of Abu Dhabi’s boat Azzam

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Two more cargoes of North Sea Forties crude have been dropped from the April loading program and one delayed by several days as Total

Vale expects that their massive ore carriers, the Valemax VLOCs, will soon get permission to enter Chinese ports to offload their cargos. It should happen

STX OSV announced today that it had secured new contracts for the construction of two Multifunctional Deep Water Anchor Handling / Offshore Service vessels for

We reported on the Polarcus Amani’s delivery yesterday, however a video was just released by shipbuilder ULSTEIN that shows this remarkable new ship

LONDON ( Dow Jones ) – Efforts to drill a relief well to plug the leak seen since Sunday on a platform of Total (FP.FR) in the UK North Sea began

SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China Cosco Holdings Ltd. (1919.HK) said Friday it swung to a loss in 2011 because of a slowdown in international trade and higher

LONDON (Dow Jones)–French oil company Total SA (TOT) is mobilizing two rigs to drill a relief well that could eventually halt a gas leak from the Elgin

With a starting price of around $70 the Amazon Kindle has been adopted by countless readers around the world, but did you know it could also save your life?

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is on a roll with a just-announced newbuild order for eight, 38,000 m³ LPG-carriers from Belgium-based shipping company EXMAR.  The

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (PRE) announced yesterday the signing of a natural gas/LNG Liquefaction, Regasification, Storage and Loading Services Agreement