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Yesterday, just months after arriving on location, the newly built Ocean Rig Drillship Poseidon, was attacked by pirates while drilling off the coast of

The above photo was submitted by gCaptain charter member Eric Miller and was taken by John Dunaway, 2nd mate of the 8,000 DWT US Flagged heavy lift vessel M/V

Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) said today that it has secured a contract to power 16 offshore supply vessels for use in the Brazilian offshore market. Caterpillar

DP World said today that its new port and logistics center project, London Gateway, is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2013 paving the way for

By Captain Patrick Donovan, R/V Thomas G. Thompson, University of Washington   As mariners we encounter them all the time… a yellow buoy, a white ship,

  Earlier this month, the Coast Guard seized the Indonesian fishing vessel Bangun Perkasa and her crew for the suspected use of drift nets to fish the

The Port of Los Angeles and California State University Long Beach (CSULB) have announced a partnership to develop and test a new $1.8 million seawater

By Tennille Tracy, The Wall Street Journal The Obama administration said Monday it was moving forward with oil-drilling leases off the coast of Alaska issued

Rolls-Royce says it has received its first order for vessels based on the group’s award-winning, highly efficient, “Environship” concept. 

A.P. Moller – Maersk Group’s U.S. arm Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) last week celebrated the naming of its first ice-classed and fourth U.S. flag

This article originally appeared on gCaptain’s sister site and the leading ski and snowboard blog, UnofficialNetworks.com. This has to be the most out

TAIPEI—Four crew members died Monday and six were missing after a cargo vessel ran aground in heavy seas off the northern Taiwanese coast, the coast

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The Interior Department is struggling to recruit a top official for its offshore oil-drilling agency, in large part because

NAIROBI, Kenya—Ten heavily armed Somali militants, driving their boat under the cover of darkness, kidnapped a Frenchwoman on a resort island in northern

MUMBAI (Dow Jones)–India’s shipping industry should speed up the expansion of its ports, increase dredging facilities and invest in coastal

Keppel Shipyard has secured three conversion contracts worth $142 million according to a company release.  The contracts include the conversion of a Liquefied

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–More than 30 House lawmakers are urging Spanish energy company Repsol YPF S.A. (REP.MC) to abandon its plan to drill for oil in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSphdtgQeQ It’s not quite Robert Duvall’s air cavalry as seen in the film Apocolypse Now, but it’s still

– By John Bolton and Dan Blumenthal, Wall Street Journal   The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) — signed by the U.S. in 1994 but never ratified

MUMBAI (Dow Jones)–Lloyd’s Register, a global independent assurance provider to energy and transportation companies, aims to double its revenue