gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

FRANKFURT, June 11 (Reuters) – German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd has stopped one of two feeder services to Iran and will decide on the remaining one

By Kim Robert McLaughlin (Bloomberg) — Inmarsat Plc rose as much as 12 percent after the British satellite company last week said it had rebuffed a

Last month gCaptain was invited by John Mangano, Key Account Manager – Coastal & Navy for International Paint, to Newport, Rhode Island to board

(This is the first in a series of columns Bloomberg is publishing on China’s effort to supplant the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent geopolitical

By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 10 (Reuters) – Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and has

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — Massive offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger, and that’s helping make the power cheaper — to the point

By Nick Turner (Bloomberg) — Inmarsat Plc rebuffed a takeover proposal from EchoStar Corp., saying the bid undervalued the British satellite company and

Bankrupt offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has announced that it anticipates emerge from the chapter 11 process in the first half of July 2018 upon

By Paul Wallace, Paul Burkhardt and Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers

Freshly-minted Japanese container shipping line Ocean Network Express (ONE) has become the latest box line to introduce an emergency bunker fuel surcharge due

European shipping company Stena Line has partnered a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Hitachi to implement artificial intelligence technology on ships, marking the

Imports at the United States’ major retail container ports are expected to set record numbers this summer and fall even as the debate over trade and tariffs

By Sam Whelan, Asia correspondent (The Loadstar) – Port operations in South-east Asia have come under increasing pressure from a build-up in scrap

ATHENS, June 8 (Reuters) – Greek shipowners could relocate to Britain after it leaves the European Union if European regulators demand changes to

  By Marianna Parraga and Mircely Guanipa HOUSTON/PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela, June 7 (Reuters) – Venezuela has begun testing seaborne oil transfers

A group of Bermuda government officials and concerned yachting professionals are warning about recent sightings of at least two large sections of an unlit dry

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shippers are breathing a sigh of relief after US east and Gulf coast dock workers reached “tentative”

  By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — American crude drillers, coal miners and farmers are set to be among the beneficiaries of the Trump

A liftboat belonging to Ezion Holdings has capsized in the South China Sea during a dead tow from Vietnam to Taiwan, the company said Wednesday. The vessel was

This guy is lucky to be alive… The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a 25-year-old Filipino man from the water about 5 miles east of Port Everglades, Florida on

By Stephen Cunningham (Bloomberg) — Booming U.S. shale production is fueling record crude exports, with shipments reaching an all-time high of 1.76

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is set to get a bit more possessive about its own oil, sparking a bidding war with eager buyers in the other

By Marianna Parraga June 6 (Reuters) – Venezuela is nearly a month behind in shipping crude to customers from its main oil export port, according to

The first pink ship belonging to freshly-minted Japanese shipping group Ocean Network Express sailed through Puget Sound on Wednesday on its way to the Port of

The investigation revealed that the second mate, who was alone on the bridge at the time of the accident, had fallen asleep after working a 6-on, 6-off shift