gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The plight of the cruise ship off Japan with more than 200 coronavirus infections and the shunning of

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Shawn Donnan and Nick Wadhams (Bloomberg) – Industry leaders privately warned the Trump administration that the U.S. will

By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Calculating the exact impact on commodity markets from the coronavirus epidemic in China is

By Lucia Kassai (Bloomberg) — An oil tanker caught in the crosshairs of the political battle for control of Venezuela is discharging its cargo after a

By Muyu Xu, Shu Zhang and Devika Krishna Kumar BEIJING/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The coronavirus’s effect on energy markets is

CAIRO, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Sudan has agreed to compensate the families of sailors killed in an al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole warship 20 years ago, state

By John Konrad and Mitja Caboni (Rotterdam) This week gCaptain was on hand at the prestigious startup accelerator PortXL where the storm Ciara ravaged The

By Nichola Groom Feb 11 (Reuters) – Vineyard Wind, the developer of the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, said on Tuesday it will miss its target to

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved four more LNG export projects in Texas that will add 6.75 billion cubic feet per day of liquefied natural gas export

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement has been sentenced to pay a $1.75 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to a felony charge related to illegal discharges

One person has died and another is missing after a skiff carrying crew members from an American tug capsized in Port Allen Route near Belle River, Louisiana on

Imports at the United States’ major retail container ports are expected to see a sharper-than-usual decline this month as the coronavirus causes factory

By Julia Payne and Florence Tan LONDON/SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The oil market this week took a turn that could prompt traders to consider storing

The U.S. Coast is warning credential mariners against the use of hemp-based CBD products that could result in a positive drug test.  The warning was

The owner of American Steamship Company has agreed to sell the company to Rand Logistics in a stock purchase agreement valued at $260 million.  American

French containership giant CMA CGM is partnership with the hydrogen-powered vessel project Energy Observer to study and promote the zero-emission fuel within

(Bloomberg) — Billionaires are the only plausible buyers of the 112-meter superyacht concept Aqua, given its reported 500 million pound ($650 million)

Australian authorities have arrested a Yang Ming containership over a debt related to the loss of 81 containers from the YM Efficiency off the coast of

By Alex Longley and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) — The shipping industry tends to do badly when Chinese demand disappoints, but the outbreak of the

BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Japan launched a second complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday over support South Korea gives its shipbuilding

By Rocky Swift and Ju-min Park TOKYO, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Passenger tests aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan confirmed at least 65 more

Editor’s note: Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen has responded to our report on the NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s recently published list of ships

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) says a newly promoted Captain became the single-point of failure due to a lack of support from his bridge

A group of Asia’s top shipping lines are launching a new transatlantic service connecting the Eastern Mediterranean with ports along the U.S. East Coast. 

By Ju-min Park and Elaine Lies TOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Dozens more people onboard a cruise ship quarantined in the port of Yokohama, Japan, tested