gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia has broken its own record for containership utilization after the MSC Gulsun, the largest container ship in the

By Anna Shiryaevskaya and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) –Liquefied natural gas tankers are taking longer-than-usual journeys to deliver cargoes and

By Parisa Hafezi and Guy Faulconbridge DUBAI/LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) – The British territory of Gibraltar will not yet release an Iranian oil tanker

A small fire broke out in the engine room of the U.S. Maritime Administration vessel Cape Henry at its layberth in Alameda, California. The San Francisco Fire

OSLO, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Commodities trader Trafigura is joining forces with shipping firms Frontline and Golden Ocean to supply marine fuel ahead of a

By Sonia Elks LONDON, Aug 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A lust for adventure tourism is driving a rise in the number of cruise ships touring the

By Jack Wittels and Timothy Abington (Bloomberg) –The world’s biggest oil tanker has begun a 12,400-mile voyage to a fuel-storage zone in Asia, the

Port Aransas Ferry passengers got quite the scare Monday when a large LNG tanker came a little too close for comfort as they were being loaded.  Video

The Port of Los Angles set a new single-month cargo record last month despite Trade War uncertainty and declining exports.  The Port of Los Angeles

LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – British warship HMS Kent set sail for the Gulf on Monday to join a U.S.-led mission protecting commercial shipping vessels in

The semi-submersible heavy lift vessel Black Marlin has arrived at the Port of Rotterdam with a monster load of prefabricated hulls for Damen. The load in

Cargo volumes fell at the Port of Long Beach in July as impacts from the ongoing U.S.-China Trade War continue to hamper trans-Pacific trade.  The Port of

A major fire engulfed an offshore supply vessel off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal on Monday, leaving one person dead and another missing, the Indian

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Fire has swept through several containers aboard the APL Le Havre just days after carriers announced they would

By James Thornhill and Jeremy Hodges – (Bloomberg) –Spanish utility Iberdrola SA is selling a stake in a U.K. offshore wind farm to a unit of

By CW4 Michael Carr – We huddled behind the ship’s superstructure, momentarily escaping wind, rain and snow flurries. Soon, though, we would need to

(Bloomberg) –The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for

By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Chinese oil trader Unipec chartered a supertanker to ship U.S. crude to China in September, trading

Aug 9 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index rose on Friday, buoyed by an uptick in demand across all vessel segments, but still

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Carriers are cracking down on rogue shippers by threatening significant financial penalties for misdeclared