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On Saturday night, a miscommunication between line handlers aboard the containership MSC Ilona and those at terminal 4 in the Port of Baltimore resulted in a

A MSC containership and a bulk carrier have been attacked in two separate but possibly related incidents in Southeast Asia waters off the coast of Indonesia,

The last couple of weeks have brought the slimmest hope that springtime may be forthcoming for the much beleaguered dry bulk market; we are not talking about

France's North Atlantic coast was experiencing its first giant tide of the millennium on Saturday as the full moon and this week's solar eclipse combined to

Crowley Maritime Corporation says that it doing a good job of picking up the slack following Horizon Lines’ sudden departure from the Jones Act U.S.

Dutch maritime services provider Royal Boskalis Westminster has once again increased its holding in Fugro N.V., but again insists that is not a step towards

A major blow for shipping through Germany’s Kiel Canal today after a cargo ship crashed into a floodgate as it entered the north chamber of the lock

Well, this happened. All that sandsliding as a kid finally paid off. Use the launch ????. I piss myself laughing watching this now, but we were all pretty

Star Bulk Carriers Corp., the largest U.S. listed dry bulk company, said Friday it has secured up to $227.5 million in financing for seven newbuilds. With this

With migration across the Mediterranean surging, the European Union's largest border operation is bracing for a record year of arrivals by sea, especially as

Rolls-Royce says this week their engines will be installed aboard a new Floating Liquefaction Vessel (FLNGV) that is being converted at Keppel Shipyard in

New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) has been fined NZD$55,000 (US$41,000) and ordered to pay NZD$25,000 in reparation to a stevedore who was

The Georgia Ports Authority welcomed the largest ship ever to call on the Port of Savannah this week when the ZIM Tianjin docked at Garden City Terminal. The

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell 12.4 percent to $620 per 20-foot container (TEU) in the week

Update 2: Costa Cruises has confirmed that five of its guests were also among those killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Tunis, Tunisia, bringing

Venezuela will seek to reduce a $46 million compensation claim it has been ordered to pay to oil service company Tidewater in a case stemming from the 2009

The Seychelles Supreme Court has convicted nine Somali nationals of committing acts of piracy who were previously released and paid compensation by Denmark

Dubai's DP World, one of the world's largest port operators, posted an 11.8 percent rise in 2014 net profit as profit margins grew in all its regions, the

The U.S. Coast Guard has reported the capsize and sinking of a towing vessel on the Ohio River near Golconda, Illinois, Wednesday night. Coast Guard Sector

Every day, Gabrielle McGrath thinks about the Titanic and the 1,517 lives lost when the White Star Line ship struck an iceberg in April

Rates for capesize bulk carriers, which have been close to six-year lows for the last two months, show little sign of improvement as a tonnage glut and

The 113-foot crewboat GIS Leonce suffered an engine fire this evening forcing the evacuation of the vessel south of Louisiana.  Upon notification of the

The U.S. Coast Guard and local agencies in New York were working Wednesday to extinguish a fire aboard a Panamanian-flagged roll-on/roll-off vessel at Homeport

By Pamela MacLean (Bloomberg) — Defending America’s Cup champion Oracle Racing Inc. avoided the impoundment of one of its sailboats in a dispute with a

Statoil ASA plans to drill four wells in Russia with state oil company OAO Rosneft, showing Norway’s biggest energy producer is deepening its involvement in