Update: Norman Atlantic’s Death Toll Rises to 12

Heat and Smoke Thwart Norman Atlantic Search Operations

Italian authorities have found another charred body on board the fire-stricken Norman Atlantic ferry, the Hellenic ...

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Canada Extends Marine Atlantic Ferry Lease

Canada Extends Marine Atlantic Ferry Lease

Canada’s Ministry of Transport and ferry operator Marine Atlantic have renewed the lease agreement for the MV ...

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SCF May Miss Out on Tanker IPO Fever

SCF May Miss Out on Tanker IPO Fever

Russia’s shipping company Sovcomflot could miss out on improving market fundamentals that are likely to ...

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New York-New Jersey Stays Busiest East Coast Port

New York-New Jersey Stays Busiest East Coast Port

The Port of New York and New Jersey handled 3,342,286 cargo containers in 2014, an increase of 5.4 percent over the ...

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Diana Keeps Clearlake Gig

Diana Keeps Clearlake Gig

Greek dry bulk specialist Diana Shipping has extended the present time charter contracts for MV Myrsini and MV ...

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HSH Nordbank Places First Large Ship Covered Bond in Years

HSH Nordbank Places First Large Ship Covered Bond in Years

Hamburg-based HSH Nordbank has placed a EUR 500 million (USD 571.9 m) ship covered bond, the German bank’s ...

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Barge Puts Stena Nordica out of Action

Barge Puts Stena Nordica out of Action

Stena Line has cancelled a number of ferry services between Holyhead, Wales, and Dublin, Ireland, after Stena ...

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Maritime Unions Demand Pieter Schelte’s Name Change

Maritime Unions Demand Pieter Schelte's Name Change

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is demanding that the Swiss-based Allseas Group SA, the ...

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Piracy Incidents in Asia at Five-Year High

Reported Piracy Incidents in 2014 at Five Year High

The number of piracy incidents reported in 2014 in Asia, a total of 183, is the highest recorded figure in the ...

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Ardmore Sails to Profitable Full Year

Ardmore Sails to Profitable Full Year

Cork-based ship owner and operator Ardmore Shipping has posted a third successive profitable quarter and its first ...

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Steel Cut for Fourth Oasis Ship

Steel Cut for Fourth Oasis Ship

The steel cutting ceremony for Royal Caribbean’s fourth Oasis ship was held on Tuesday at the STX France ...

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DSME Nets First LNG Carrier Order in 2015

DSME Nets First LNG Carrier Order in 2015

South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has received an order for a 174,000 ...

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Nautilus, MAC Fall Prey to Cyber Attack

cyber attack

Nautilus Minerals Inc and Marine Assets Corporation (MAC) have fallen victims to a cyber attack by an unknown third ...

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Aker Philadelphia Extends Contract with Metal Workers

Aker Philadelphia Extends Contract with Metal Workers

The U.S.-based Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc., (APSI), the sole operating subsidiary of Oslo-listed Aker ...

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LR2 Product Tanker Joins Scorpio Tankers’ Fleet

LR2 Product Tanker Joins Scorpio Tankers' Fleet

Scorpio Tankers has taken delivery of STI Alexis, an LR2 product tanker from Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. This ...

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d’Amico Group Launches Its Largest Ship

d'Amico Group Launches Its Largest Ship

The Italian dry bulk and tanker owner and operator d’Amico Group took delivery of the 117,000 dwt dry bulk ...

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Seanergy Maritime Warned for Stock Non-Compliance

Warned-for-Stock-Non-Compliance

Marshall Islands dry bulk transportation company Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. has received written notification ...

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New Orleans Sees Most Containers in One Year

New Orleans Sees Most Containers in One Year

The Port of New Orleans’ Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal handled 490,526 TEUs in 2014, an 8.8% increase ...

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MHI Splits Shipbuilding Sector

MHI Splits Shipbuilding Sector

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is pushing on with the last year’s plan to establish two new ...

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UWT to Get New Quay in Rotterdam

New Quay at Port of Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam Authority drove the first pile for a new new quay in the Johan Frisohafen to be used by United ...

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ADM Sells Half of Barcarena Terminal to Glencore

ADM Sells Half of Barcarena Terminal to Glencore

The U.S. food-processing and commodities-trading corporation Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) has reached an ...

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Finnish Port Operators Take Union Labour Actions to Court

Port of Rauma

The Finnish Port Operators Association (FPOA) brought labour actions launched by Finnish transport union AKT before ...

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