Xiamen Bags First LNG Carrier Order

Xiamen Bags First LNG Order

Chinese shipbuilder Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry has secured its first LNG Carrier order from Landmark Corporate ...

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US Naval Cargo Ship Aground near Okinawa

US Naval Cargo Ship Aground near Okinawa

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command prepositioning vessel USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak (T-AK 3005) ran aground ...

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UKHO Upgrades Brazil Charts

UKHO Upgrades Brazil Charts

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has produced new and updated charts and Port Approach Guides for ...

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McCain Stands Up for Jones Act Repeal

McCain

U.S. Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor on Thursday to defend his amendment to repeal the Merchant Marine ...

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VIDEO: USCG Rescues 11 from Sinking Tug off Oahu

VIDEO USCG Rescues 11 from Sinking Tug off Oahu

The U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific has coordinated the rescue of eleven people after a 95-foot towing vessel sank ...

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VIDEO: Hoegh Osaka Towed to Southampton

Hoegh Osaka Towed to Southampton

Grounded car carrier Hoegh Osaka, loaded with millions of dollars worth of cars, has been towed to the Port of ...

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Southern Texas Ports Resume Operations

Port of Houston

The Southern Texas ports of Houston, Galveston and Freeport that shut down their operations due to dense fog on ...

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Update: One Migrant Dies, Three Ebola Free

Update One Migrant Dies, Three Ebola Free, Dozens Quarantined

The results of Ebola tests performed by Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital on three migrants have turned out ...

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VIDEO: Fincantieri Starts Building Seven Seas Explorer

Fincantieri Starts Construction of Seven Seas Explorer

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has laid keel for the Seven Seas Explorer, the first super luxury cruise ship that ...

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SHI Seals Kogas Duo

SHI Seals Kogas Duo

Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) followed in the footsteps of its counterpart Daewoo Shipbuilding ...

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Maersk Line, DB Schenker to Reduce CO2 Footprint

Maersk Line, DB Schenker to Reduce CO2 Footprint

Frankfurt-based transportation and logistics provider DB Schenker Logistics and Danish Maersk Line have signed a ...

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Shell's Curlew FPSO Isolated from Fulmar Gas Line

Curlew FPSO

The deep sea divers from the Bibby Polaris - Dive Support Vessel (DSV) completed the subsea work with the ...

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Term of the Day: Carnet

carnet

A carnet is an international customs and temporary export-import document. It permits a holder to temporarily carry ...

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Update 3: Hoegh Osaka Set for Towage

Update 2 Hoegh Osaka to Be Uprighted This Afternoon

Salvage crews have managed to move the grounded car carrier Hoegh Osaka to the almost upright position, with the ...

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Image of the Day: SCF Melampus Sets Sail for Nigeria

Image of the day

LNG carrier SCF Melampus, which just joined the fleet of Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF Group), has set ...

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EPA Issues Penalty Policy for ECA Violations

EPA Issues Penalty Policy for ECA Violations

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a penalty policy for assessing civil penalties for ...

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LA- Long Beach to Introduce Contingency Anchorages

Port of Los Angeles

Driven by intensifying gridlocks, the Californian twin ports Los Angeles and Long Beach have put in ...

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Over 60 Ships Delayed amid Closure of Houston Channel

Over 60 Ships Delayed amid Closure of Houston Channel

The US ports of Houston, Galveston and Corpus Christi have been closed since Tuesday evening due to dense fog, GAC ...

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Drewry Expects Modest Recovery in Dry Bulk Sector

Drewry Expects Modest Recovery in Dry Bulk Sector (2)

The depressed dry bulk market could recover partly in 2015 and underlying earnings could improve marginally, ...

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Update: Magellan Spirit Could Be Refloated on Friday

Magellan Spirit's Cargo Transfer Begins Today

An attempt at refloating Teekay’s grounded LNG tanker Magellan Spirit is not expected before Friday, January ...

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Analysing Security Threats: Man vs Machine

Analysing Security Threats- Man vs Machine

The claim that in today’s information age, with open source media instantly available via mobile devices or at the ...

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Benin Seeks Dutch Expertise on Port de Cotonou Project

Benin Seeks Dutch Expertise on Port Cotonou Project

Port of Amsterdam International (PoAI) has been contracted by the Netherlands Embassy in Benin to help revitalise ...

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