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LONDON–Up to 4 million barrels of North Sea Forties crude oil, the main component of global pricing benchmark Brent, are set to leave the region for

Wilbur Ross, whose company manages about $10 billion of assets, said private-equity investors are increasingly interested in shipping after a four-year rout

Crowley Maritime Corp. said Wednesday that it has taken delivery of the tug, Ocean Wave, the first of four high-bollard-pull Ocean Class tugboats under

The United States’ Maritime Administration has officially cancelled a widely opposed study that sought to revisit the use of double hulled tankers more

Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (Nasdaq:VLCCF) announced today that the sale of the VLCC Hampstead, which was discussed in their second quarter earnings release

The European Union set stricter limits for sulfur in ship fuel, enacting International Maritime Organization agreements to fight air pollution. The European

After a six-year wait and clearing countless hurdles, Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSA.LN, RDSA) U.S. unit said it began drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi

The flow of much of the world’s oil is controlled from a small suite of offices perched over a Tiffany & Co. store in the Chelsea section of London.

According to sources aboard the vessel, the M/V Ocean Atlas has been cleared of all charges and is awaiting release from Venezuela. The vessel first ran into

A collision between two ships resulted in an oil spill in the sea outside Singapore, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. The accident

The biennial SMM-Hamburg conference, known as one of the maritime industry’s leading trade fairs and considered by many a “must attend”

It has been said that the technology used to drill ultra-deepwater oil and gas wells rivals that of NASA.  Sometimes those comparisons are more literal than

UPDATE 1:  The EU and US have joined Japan’s antitrust probe of some of the world’s leading car carrier operators. Wallenius Wilhelmsen

This summer I had the opportunity to take a day trip to the wonderful Capital city of Tallinn, Estonia. While I have been to the city many times before,

Federal mediators have stepped in to try to jumpstart stalled contract negotiations between dockworkers and employers at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports, a

(Bloomberg) — The shipping lanes of the Pacific and Indian Oceans show the diverging fortunes of U.S. and European consumers ahead of the busiest

Farstad Shipping’s new PSV Far Solitaire was today named the recipient vessel of the prestigious Ship of the Year 2012 award at the SMM conference in

Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, is moving to spend $25 billion on a second port, a crude pipeline and roads that will open up export routes in a

It’s about time we have some photo evidence of the grounded Hansa Berlin in Cuba.  gCaptain broke the news that the Hansa Berlin containership quietly

East Africa’s “Big-Three” warned Tuesday that despite a recent downturn in global piracy incidents, shipowners should not let their guard