gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

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

The Panama Canal set a new monthly tonnage record last month, breaking the previously-held record the third time since the opening of the Expanded Panama two

by John Konrad (gCaptain) Today the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has posted the position of USMMA Superintendent to USAjobs, the first step in

By Nicholas Ford SYDNEY, June 6 (Reuters) – A Taiwan-owned cargo ship docked safely in Sydney on Wednesday after losing 83 containers off the coast of

“The Caribbean Fantasy had been detained 3 times in the years immediately before the fire, yet no red flags went up,” commented NTSB Chairman

Shares of NYSE-listed leading international bunker fuel supplier Aegean Marine Petroleum Network crashed more than 75% Tuesday after the company revealed it

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the face of increasing anger from shippers over emergency bunker surcharges, shipping consultant Drewry too has

South Korea’s biggest shipping line Hyundai Merchant Marine has opted to split its twenty-vessel megaship order among South Korea’s top three

French shipping group CMA CGM has teamed up with a San Francisco startup to explore the use of artificial intelligence on board its ships. CMA CGM, the

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) will investigate the loss of dozens of shipping containers overboard from the Yang Ming-operated cargo ship YM

Global ships agency Wilhelmsen is teaming up to aeronautics company Airbus to bring shore-to-ship drone delivery to Port of Singapore. The new service, called

OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) – Chemical tanker firm Odfjell sees significant upside potential to its earnings ahead as low-yielding contracts expire, new

by Phil Stewart (Reuters) – The United States is considering sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials say, in a move that could

On the morning of September 6, 2016, Houston harbor pilots Michael McGee and Michael Phillips found themselves surrounded by towering walls of flames after the

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s oil wells may be flowing again, but the country’s largest operator says attacks continue to put a brake

The Koch-backed groups also said that Congress should repeal the Jones Act, which requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on vessels that

GENEVA, June 4 (Reuters) – Unidentified forces attacked a U.N. aid vessel off the main Yemeni port of Hodeidah at the weekend and started a fire in the

The 22,000-tonne topside for the drilling platform was lifted into position in one single lift on the Johan Sverdrup field over the weekend using the

By Blake Schmidt (Bloomberg) — In the vast, freezing Ross Sea, China’s “Snow Dragon” icebreaker needed to find a safe anchorage before it could

By Heejin Kim and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Park Hong-sik, a fund manager who correctly predicted the rally of South Korean technology stocks in 2017,