gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

The days of anonymity at sea are long gone. With LRIT and satellite based AIS tracking the office has, for some time now, had access to the precise location

No reader of this blog needs to be told that the risk from Piracy is real and growing.  We have seen it change from something that only happens in

Click Image for high resolution Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of

STOCKHOLM – A gas company building an underwater pipeline in the Baltic Sea has found a dozen centuries-old shipwrecks – some of them unusually

Yesterday we showed you maps of the tsunami created by the February 27th 8.8 magnitude Chilean earthquake.  Today we follow up with a collection of videos of

By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort pulled up anchor Tuesday in Port-au-Prince and began the long trip home to Baltimore, ending

By Scott Eden NEW YORK (TheStreet) — About half a decade after the first maritime shipping concerns sold shares to the public on U.S. stock exchanges,

Jacksonville Business Journal – by Mark Szakonyi Staff reporter Crowley Liner Services Inc. has received a contract worth up to $22 million from the U.S.

By Nina Larson (AFP) STOCKHOLM — Around 50 ships, including large ferries carrying thousands, were stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea, with many unable

Shown above, AIS provider VT Explorer plots the cruise ship Louis Majesty’s path as it encountered rough sea’s on March 3rd, 2010 (click image for

Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment (DE), 53rd session: 22 – 26 February 2010 Replacing unsafe lifeboat release mechanisms – guidelines

By Susan Schept – Navy Times Staff writer Thursday Feb 25, 2010 20:04:27 EST Lawmakers from both parties had choice words for the Obama

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 EUTAWVILLE, S.C. – “Just get ‘em before the sharks get ‘em.” That’s what Hutch Holseberg, 45,

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Community of European Shipyards’ Association (CESA) are calling on the European Commission and the

Captain Richard Rodriquez of the Bitter End blog points us to TUAW.com, where they have the details of how Apple has taken steps to conceal its bills of lading

SEATTLE – The barge Bar Fly sits partially submerged and surrounded by containment boom near La Push, Wash., in the Quillayute River Feb. 23, 2010. The

Shown here, 3 lifeboats carrying some of the 64 students and crew that were rescued after the tall ship Concordia sank 344 miles off the coast of Rio de

Chinese operator of ship that caused 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill fined $10M SAN FRANCISCO February 19, 2010 (AP) A federal judge has ordered a Hong

Image via Digital Journal According to reports, all 64 students aboard the Canadian flagged tall ship Concordia which san 300 miles off the Brazilian coast

Storm Surge and Flooding Prediction Dropped in New Scale NOAA’s National Weather Service will use a new hurricane scale this season called the

This is a computer rendering of the joint high-speed vessel built by Austal, builder of the two Hawaii Superferry ships. Photo via: Austal Ships/Honolulu

Believe it or not, a lot of gCaptain.com visitors do not know the depth of this site beyond the section in which they frequent the most (i.e. the blog

Right on the heals of gCaptain’s very own iPhone app, Amver has entered into the world mobile based technology (or in my opinion convenience based

This week’s interesting photo is of Stena’s latest drillship the Stena Forth. This photo shows her departure from Samsung Heavy Industries at their

WASHINGTON — U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, is scheduled to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, as part of the press