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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Italy’s bid to create a European industrial champion in the shipbuilding industry faces difficulty

By William Mathis and Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) –The world’s biggest developer of offshore wind farms issued a reality check to the industry,

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Leading Belgian tanker operator Euronav expects to complete preparations on its fleet in coming weeks ahead

The Norwegian Competition Authority has rejected the proposed mega-merger of accommodation vessel operators Prosafe and Floatel on the grounds that the merger

By Noah Browning LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions on a top Chinese shipping fleet is set to produce a totally unintended result — less

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Top shipping, retail and transport companies are looking to develop an alternative marine fuel which aims to

By Lori Ann LaRocco – Since the first tariff threats tweeted by United States President Donald Trump, the global markets have become an involuntary

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Oil slicks washing up on beaches along more than 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) of Brazil’s northeast coastline

U.S-based MidOcean Wind has teamed up with offshore wind veteran Bernhard Schulte Offshore to build and operate support vessels for the U.S. offshore wind

China has approved the long-rumored merger of its two largest shipbuilding conglomerates, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and China State

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain is returning to sea more than two years its deadly collision with a tanker in the shipping lanes off Singapore.

Salvors are working to stabilize the overturned Golden Ray from erosion in preparation for a potentially lengthy dismantling operation in Georgia’s St.

A warning to vessels transiting the Atlantic Coast of France through the Cape Verde Islands to Brazil: A double-handed sailing race started from Le Havre,

By Evgenia Pismennaya, Dina Khrennikova and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –Russia, one of the largest producers of the world’s favorite ship fuel, may delay

At 09:43 local time, Califonia Maritime Academy officials published an emergency tweet “EVACUATE CAMPUS. Fire has jumped the freeway”.  The

By Michael Carr – Joint Base Balad Iraq is surrounded by sand. When you drive out its gates, all you see is sand. Sand blows onto the road, it

By Jonathan Saul and Collin Eaton LONDON/HOUSTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – At least three tankers are on their way to Asia with U.S. oil cargoes after

By Jake Spring and Marta Nogueira BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 24 (Reuters) – A thick sludge of crude oil has been washing up on vast stretches of

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Stockpiles of low-sulphur marine fuels held in floating storage around the Singapore trading and

Western Australia-based Austal has won an order to build a 115-meter high-speed catamaran for Danish ferry operator Molslinjen. The vessel will be the largest

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Offshore wind could become a cornerstone of the world’s power supply as steep cost reductions and

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday issued a nearly two-month waiver for companies to wind down transactions with a

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) –The U.S. has forfeited some $18 billion tied to oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico since 2000 because of a

New York has finalized contracts for two offshore wind projects that will generate a combined 1,700 megawatts of renewable energy for the state. New York

Finding new sustainable energy sources such as alcohol, biomethane and ammonia offers the shipping industry its best opportunity for reaching its net-zero