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Over the past few days it was unclear whether or not the US Navy would be officially tasked to provide disaster relief to New York and New Jersey.  It

Italian news company Corriere reported today a boat carrying Libyan migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday while enroute to Lampedusa, an

(Bloomberg) — Tankers able to deliver almost 215,000 metric tons of gasoline are waiting outside New York Harbor to unload their cargoes after the worst

Sandy-related troubles at the Port of New York and New Jersey are forcing carriers to divert their ships to other ports, disrupting the supply flow for

VIA NOAA COAST SURVEY NOAA Office of Coast Survey navigation response teams and other survey assets continue to survey in the Port of New York / New Jersey,

US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has issued a Jones Act waiver to allow foreign-flagged ships from the Gulf of Mexico into ports

A tanker grounding in India turned fatal on Wednesday after a lifeboat capsized in heavy surf  and now many are wondering why the Coast Guard wasn’t

Rear Adm. Steven Ratti, the Coast Guard 5th District commander, ordered a district formal investigation Thursday to determine the cause of the sinking of the

China’s Zhejiang Shipbuilding delivered the platform supply vessel Bourbon Calm today, the third in a series of four platform supply vessels of

The American Maritime Partnership, representing more than 40,000 Jones Act vessels, issued a statement late Thursday regarding the delivery of petroleum and

Captain Robin Walbridge and the crew of the Bounty made a port call in Belfast, Maine this past August and gave a very telling interview with one of the

German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) announced this morning they have successfully launched the second of two identical RoRo freight ferry

(Bloomberg) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s second-largest shipyard, rallied the most in eight months in Seoul trading after

The US Coast Guard said late Thursday that it ahs suspended its search for the missing captain of the HMS Bounty 200 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. Missing

The first of Crowley’s four ocean class tugs, Ocean Wave, completed its first job earlier this month by removing a grounded containership from the

(Bloomberg) — Workers contained a spill of diesel fuel caused by superstorm Sandy, blocking it from flowing into a waterway that separates New Jersey and

LONDON–Iran is playing a complex game of cat-and-mouse as it tries to assist its ally Syria while avoiding tighter international sanctions on its oil

The United States Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area Commander, Vice Admiral Robert C. Parker and Rear Admiral Richard T. Gromlich, director of Operational

The Tilos‘ days are numbered following Goldenport Holdings Inc. (LSE: GPRT) announcement today that she has been sold and delivered to a third party

In the above video, Robert Kunkle, Technical Advisor at Mid Ocean Tanker Company (MOTC) talks with CNBC about the impact of Hurricane Sandy to the tanker trade