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COPENHAGEN (Dow Jones)–Nils Smedegaard Andersen, the chief executive of Danish industrial conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S(MAERSK-B.KO), returned to

SYDNEY (Dow Jones)–Australia’s government on Sunday said it has awarded 12 new petroleum exploration permits for off the coast of Western Australia

HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–Swire Pacific Ltd. (SWRAY, 0019.HK) said it will spend HK$11 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years on building energy

MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Norway’s Statoil ASA (STO, STL.OS) signed Saturday a potential $100 billion cooperation agreement with Russian state oil company

Nearly a week ago, 7 people were killed off Qatar when an offshore LNG buoy terminal exploded unexpectedly.  Tugboat 53, which is part of the Svitzer/Nakilat

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Saudi Arabia’s state shipping company, Vela, will transport large volumes of oil to the U.S. again this month, repeating a trend

After a four days under the control of west African pirates, BW Shipping reports that the product tanker, BW Rhine, has been released off Nigeria by its

By Lars Petter Blikom, DNV As part of a project to define the future design of container feeder ships for operation in the Baltic Sea, some of my colleagues

It was a wild ride in the oil markets this week as crude prices fell off of a cliff today and WTI is now lower than $100 BBL.  While

Sauter Carbon Offset Design (SCOD) says they have come up with an alternative design for the USCG’s new Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC) that

PARIS (Dow Jones)–French oil major Total SA (TOT, FP.FR) Friday reiterated it was ready to start “in the coming days” an operation to

To benefit from the current strong demand for high specification drilling units Seadrill announced today that it has entered into a turnkey construction

LONDON (Dow Jones)–The June loading program for North Sea Ekofisk crude oil is scheduled at 263,000 barrels a day, up from 237,097 barrels a day

Navios Maritime Partners L.P.’s (NMM) public offering of 4 million common units priced at a 4.5% discount to Wednesday’s close. The units were

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)–German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said Friday it has increased freight rates for all cargo and container types between Europe and

Here, Coast Guard crew aboard a 42-foot Special Purpose Craft – Near Shore Lifeboat crashes through the surf of the Merrimack River bar located in upper

SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.SE), the world’s largest shipbuilder by sales, said Thursday first-quarter net profit

Norway’s Kleven Maritime said today that it will be constructing a second seismic vessel for Sanco Shipping AS at the company’s Myklebust Verft

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–The Baltic Dry Index, the bellwether gauge of rates for ship dry commodities including grains, iron ore and coal, will likely find

  On the approach into the channel at Port Aransas, Texas this morning, the 74k DWT product tanker, FR8 Pride, a Scorpio Tanker-managed vessel, lost power

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–The G6 alliance of container shipping firms, which includes Singapore-listed Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.’s (N03.SG) APL

(Dow Jones) Rowan Cos.’s (RDC) first-quarter earnings rose 54% as higher day rates contributed to the offshore drilling company’s

Singapore-listed COSCO Corp said today that it has contracted to build US$ 200 million harsh-environment semi-submersible flotel for Mexico’s Cotemar

BW Maritime believes their product tanker, BW Rhine, has been captured off Togo.  Here’s a statement made by the company. On 28 April 2012, BW Rhine, a

Note: This article has been cross-posted from the pro-union Working In These Times blog By Bruce Vail Most of the media attention at the big gathering of