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by Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) A red-hulled tanker is drifting in Massachusetts Bay, trying to capitalize on the brief two-month window when natural gas

by James Stavridis (Bloomberg) A Defense Department report warns that China’s military buildup is reaching the point where it can attempt to “impose

by Robin Pomeroy (Reuters) – Iran on Friday began large-scale naval drills at the mouth of the Gulf, which will feature its first submarine cruise

Brittany Ferries has signed an agreement with Spanish energy company Repsol for the delivery of Liquefied Natural Gas to its Spanish operations. A letter of

by Grant Wyman (USCG) There is a new landmark at the Coast Guard Academy and it is helping to launch the Coast Guard into an era of space operations.

by Andy MacAskill (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday admitted that talk by its defense minister of deploying a warship in the Pacific had complicated the

by Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) They are slowly plowing their way across thousands of miles of ocean toward America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline. As they do,

by Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin calls improving the Russian navy’s combat capabilities a priority. The unfinished husks of three

by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipping company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, warned trade headwinds would slow growth

by Catarina Demony (Reuters) – The crew of Venezuelan oil tanker, the Rio Arauca, that has been stuck in the middle of the river Tagus in Lisbon for

By Jonathan Saul and Maiya Keidan LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – A growing number of hedge funds are moving into shipping debt, an asset class few have

Interview by Paul González-Morgan (Marine Strategy) – Sinclair Browne is Chief Executive of the Port of Inverness, situated in the city of Inverness,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The pro-scrubber Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 has strongly criticised the EC for urging the International Maritime

DUBAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) – DP World has bought back British ferry and shipping freight operator P&O Ferries for 322 million pounds ($421 million),

By Alexander Cornwell, Lisa Barrington and Eric Knecht DUBAI/DOHA, Feb 20 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has eased a ban on the shipping of goods

Several people have sustained injuries after an offshore wind crewboat collided with an 81-meter cargo ship in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany on

The first turbine at the soon-to-be world’s biggest offshore wind farm has been installed and is now producing electricity off of England’s coast. When

Authorities in the Solomon Islands have reported a breach in the hull of the grounded bulk carrier MV Solomon Trader, sparking fears of an environmental

Texas-based LNG company Excelerate Energy and Norway’s Equinor Energy have completed the first ever ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of liquefied natural gas

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container throughput at the port of Hamburg declined for the second consecutive year in 2018. The port’s throughput

OSLO, Feb 19 (Reuters) – The prospects of dry bulk shippers carrying iron ore from mines to smelters have worsened due to the accident at Vale’s

Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE: RCL) announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement with French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the

LONDON/MADRID, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Authorities in Madrid and Gibraltar gave differing versions on Monday of an incident in which a Spanish warship told

Two workers were killed Monday in a fire that started in the engine room of an end-of-life tanker being dismantled at a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong,

The Panama Canal Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Ricaurte Vasquez as the next Panama Canal Administrator, succeeding current Administrator Jorge L.