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A floating storage unit (FSU) being built by South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries for Statoil will have Wärtsilä deep well cargo pumps, firewater pumps and ballast pumps.

Houston-headquartered offshore drilling conractor Rowan Companies plc (NYSE: RDC) reported today that Chief Operating Officer Thomas P. Burke,

Alaska Native owned and operated CIRI Alaska Tourism Corporation is making investments in its Seward-based Kenai Fjords Tours operation and at Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NASDAQ: NCLH) has released details of some of the new environmentally-friendly and technologically advanced innovations

Farstad Shipping ASA has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, reached an agreement with Ocean Yield of a sale

Vroon, which currently has four livestock carriers under construction at the same shipyard.

German shipbuilder Meyer Werft said yesterday that a fire that broke out March 5 on a cruise ship newbuilding in the shipyard's building dock II had caused less than EUR 500,000 in damage.

Norway's Ulstein Verft has delivered Blue Power, the third of six medium-sized platform supply vessels (PSV) of PX121 design to Blue Ship

Classification society ClassNK has granted AIP (Approval in Principle) to a tanker design that reduces the weight of ballast water required by about 65 percent compared with a conventional hull form.

The Government of Nova Scotia, Canada, says the province will continue its efforts to find a qualified company to run a new ferry service in Yarmouth

Railway Age Contributing Editor Frank N. Wilner will analyze labor’s role in future U.S. intermodal activity, as one of the featured speakers participating in The New Intermodal Age

The STX OSV Group of companies is adopting the new brand name Vard. The adoption of the new name, logo and brand identity follows the sale of STX Europe's majority stake in the company to Fincantieri Oil & Gas.

Seadrill has exercised fixed price options for the construction of two high specification jack-up drilling rigs at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co., Ltd

Shell is moving to bring liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel one step closer for its marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced March 2 that the Navy will go ahead with reductions in spending in order to meet the fiscal constraints

Geoff Green, Managing Director of Braemar Engineering (formerly Wavespec) says that a new Houston-based, LNG fueling related venture is "a logical extension" for the marine engineering consultancy.

Robert D. Somerville, long serving Chairman of classification society ABS, has announced his retirement effective April 30, 2013

China's Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has secured a contract to build four AHTS offshore support vessels for Russian shipowner, FEMCO.

Crowley Maritime Corp. President, Chairman and CEO Tom Crowley became an honorary alumnus of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), Kings Point, NY, during a special banquet recently held in his honor.

Interlake Steamship Company's ATB Dorothy Ann and Pathfinder departed Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday on completion of the vessel's winter work and layup period.