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U.S. flag climbs makes it back onto the Paris MoU "White List".

The U.S. Senate voted on Monday to make only a minor change in the main U.S. global food aid program, rebuffing President Barack Obama's call for the biggest

Kirby CEO: Jones Act is essential to the nation’s economic growth as well as its national and homeland security.

Recent lobbying blitz makes case for $150 million more each year from the U.S. government to upgrade infrastructure on the nation's major

Crowley Maritime Corporation has christened its 17th and final ATB as part of a $1 Billion, decade-long construction

The American Maritime Partnership has elected Thomas Allegretti as its new

Obama's plan for food aid reform is opposed by... pretty much everyone. Shipping included.

A group of lawmakers this week announced the establishment of a new congressional caucus focused on raising awareness amongst members of Congress on a broad

Crowley Maritime Corporation christened its newest tanker Wednesday during a ceremony at the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard and says it will soon put the

Jackson Offshore Operators has awarded BAE Systems’ shipyard in Jacksonville, Florida a contract to build two new U.S.-flagged platform supply vessels

Louisiana-based Otto Candies said this week that it will be working with Norway’s Marin Teknikk on a new subsea support and construction vessel (SSCV) to

(Bloomberg) — Overseas Shipholding Group Inc.’s bonds and stocks plunged after the largest U.S. tanker company said in a regulatory filing

By Klaus Luhta, KlausLuhta.com If you are looking for some licentious and lascivious reading relating to shipping, look no further than the Paris MOU list of

What do the United States, Kazakhstan, Belize and Egypt have in common? They are all on the Paris MOU’s gray list of countries with too many port state

Today here in the U.S. is National Maritime Day! National Maritime Day was officially declared by Congress in 1933 to honor the contributions of the American

Cuts in manning levels and burgeoning paperwork loads are increasing the risk of maritime accidents worldwide, says a group of U.S. maritime unions. At a time

With rising gas prices and current events again fueling Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) speculation, a coalition of U.S.-flagged vessel operators has urged

Maersk Line, Limited said today it has completed the reflagging of the MAERSK ILLINOIS, MLL’s newest multipurpose heavy-lift vessel, to the U.S.

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today the winners of construction contracts for sixteen high-specification offshore supply vessels as

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today that it has increased the number of shares in its public offering of common stock by 250,000 to a