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The six rowers of Team Hallin have set off on their transatlantic row and are on schedule to break the world record. Hallin Marine is sponsoring ‘Team

Over the past few days a national disaster has been unfolding in eastern Australia, with flash floods effecting a vast area of Queensland.  Watch here as a

12. Jan. 2011 | Hamburg – A series of 9,000 TEU container ships were significantly improved by simple hull design adjustments made by the joint venture

Lloyd’s Register has issued the first ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006) certificate of compliance “pre-convention”, or ahead of entry

Photo: A crew member of the Alaska Ranger is taken on board the Coast Guard Cutter Munro. The Alaska Ranger began taking on water 120 miles west of Dutch

Between my house and gCaptain HQ is a dead zone that sucks the bars out of every cell phone I’ve owned. That is until a friend suggested a MobilePro

This weeks incident photo comes to us via Ben Strong of Amver. If not for the partnership between Pole Star and Amver the Greek ship Vanessa A would never

RIO DE JANEIRO– OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) (Bovespa: OGXP3, OTC: OGXPY), the Brazilian oil and gas company

First Class Society Authorized by USCG to issue Certificate of Fitness for OSVs handling Noxious Liquid Substances (Houston, TX—) The US Coast Guard

International classification society Bureau Veritas has issued guidelines for the Classification and Certification of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. The

The power and beauty of time lapse photography is rarely as dramatic as when it is shot from a ship. This clip of the Houston Ship Channel, 500 Knots

STX France has received an order to build a luxury cruise ship, the “EUROPA 2”.  The new ship is being acquired by a third-party proprietary

Editor’s Note:  The following is a statement issued today by the The American Petroleum Institute in response to the National Commission on BP Deepwater

HOUSTON (Jan. 11, 2011) – In response to the findings of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released

Drewry’s latest Container Forecaster analysis questions carriers financial prudence as they go back to their old modus operandi of chasing market share

Today, The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling release its final report on its investigation into the Deepwater

Expands Logistics Capabilities to Include Energy, Oilfield and Mining Industries (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; January 11, 2011) – Crowley Maritime Corporation

Bacteria made quick work of the tons of methane that billowed into the Gulf of Mexico along with oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, clearing the natural

The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2011 minimum random drug testing rate at 50 percent of covered crewmembers. The testing rate for calendar year 2010

Bristol, UK: BAE Systems has successfully demonstrated a prototype device that will serve as an effective non-lethal deterrent against pirate attacks on