gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

(Dow Jones)–The French government announced Monday the launch of a EUR10 billion tender offer to build five off-shore wind farms, in a bid to muscle up

(Dow Jones) Three Somali men accused of hijacking a sailboat in the Indian Ocean and killing the four Americans on board could face the death penalty, rather

U.S. Coast Guard photo By Doug Pine I recently took a temporary job as master of the tug Aries with a freight barge from Seward to Chignik, Alaska then

By Jeremy Page, The Wall Street Journal BEIJING—Tensions in the disputed waters of the South China Sea threaten to distract Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of

The Cardiff University, in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Council, have just released a research film on what is considered the most

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Transocean Ltd. (RIG) said Thursday that the deep-water drilling rig off Ghana that was evacuated Wednesday after it took on water

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Today, the International Maritime Organization announced that it has selected “one hundred years after the Titanic” as the theme for World Maritime

July 2011 Gulf of Aden Convoy Schedule A. GULF OF ADEN: Turkish maritime task group schedule for June/July 2011.   Rendezvous point “A”

Norwegian shipping and seafood company Stolt-Nielsen Ltd. (SNI.OS) Thursday announced a second quarter net profit of $32.4 million, from $27.5 million, boosted

Image by Dmitrios LONDON (Dow Jones)–A fire that broke out on an oil tanker after a pirate attack off the Yemeni coast has now been extinguished, an

Each month we cover a variety of different photography that pertains to the maritime world around us (you can find many of them in our section Amazing Photos).

  The world’s most storied deepwater oil rig, the Transocean Marianas, has developed a critical list after an anchor punctured her poontoon and is

U.S. Coast Guard photos This week’s incident photos are of the 89-foot passenger ferry Royal Miss Belmar grounded in the U.S. Virgin Islands on July 4,

MARAN GAS ASCLEPIUS – photo by Gilbert CAILLER SEOUL –  South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries has inked an order for two 164,000m³

The General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine Energy giant Chevron Corp. (CVX) awarded General Electric Co. (GE) a contract in the Gulf of Mexico, in which

HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–Cosco Shipping Co. (600428.SH), the heavy-lift and project cargo unit of state-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co., plans to

Last week we brought you news of the tug Aries that sank in the Bering Sea.  Master of the Aries and good friend of gCaptain, Captain Doug Pine, put

SINGAPORE — Japanese explorers have found large deposits of rare-earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, British journal Nature Geoscience

The following article originally appeared in DNV’s Tanker update No. 1 2011. by Magne A. Røe, DNV The Hyundai group of shipyards has the combined

Maersk Drilling, a business unit within the A.P. Moller- Maersk group, has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy

Norwegian oil-rig operator Songa Offshore SE said Tuesday it has been awarded a $2.5 billion contract to charter two new semisubmersible drilling rigs to

Hamilton, Bermuda, June 29, 2011 – Teekay Corporation (NYSE: TK) (Teekay) today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with A2SEA

Alstom, a global leader in offshore wind power technology released this video the other day showing the engineering and construction of their new 6MW offshore

Support ship Fort Victoria helped thwart an attack as pirates fired rockets at a merchant ship off Oman. 04 July 2011 Ten pirates in a couple of skiffs made