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Novoship tanker NS Columbus became the first Sovcomflot Group vessel to receive a certificate of compliance with the International Labour Organisation’s 2006 Maritime Labour Convention (MLC-2006).

The Navy’s first mobile landing platform ship, USNS Montford Point (T-MLP 1), was christened at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in

Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (“MMLP”) and Florida Marine Transporters, Inc. (“FMT”) announced on Thursday that MMLP has purchased from FMT affiliates six

Holland Shipyards has commenced conversion work on two ships owned by Chevalier Floatels, The Motorship informs.

The first Triple-E class vessel was launched at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Okpo Shipyard on February 27, 2013. The vessel will be named Maersk Mc-Kinney

MONTHLY LIST OF VESSELS BEACHED AT THE INDIAN SHIPBREAKING YARDS

Wärtsilä is opening a new services workshop in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, today. It says that the new facilities will strengthen its presence in Brazil

With shipyards and shipyard workers likely to take some heavy hits as a result of looming sequestration cuts to defense spending

Royal Dutch Shell plc today announced it will pause its exploration drilling activity for 2013 in Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi Seas to prepare equipment and plans for a resumption of activity at a later stage.

World’s most powerful turbocharger how? Do they mean size? Most powerful because they are used on the biggest engines in the world?

Oceanic Iron Ore Corp. announces that it has commissioned a Shipping Optimization Study to be led by AMEC and involving end user shipping and stevedoring companies.

Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured a repeat order to build a second Pacific Class 400 jack-up rig worth

CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping Group and France’s leading, has announced that passengers

On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 the 145,000 gt cruise ship Norwegian BREAKAWAY, whose construction has taken merely 17 months, will float out of MEYER WERFT’s covered building dock II.

Maritime industry experts speaking at the third annual edition of the World Ports & Trade Summit will turn their attention from seaborne trade issues to cruise and marina development,

The feasibility study for construction of Khamir port has come to an end, an official of the Bandar Abbas port authority said.

International experts are meeting at IMO Headquarters this week, in the form of an Expert Workshop, to begin work on updating the inventory of greenhouse gases

Drewry’s latest Dry Bulk Insight report shows that the Drewry Hire Index suffered a further decline in the first month of the New Year. The main culprit was the Capesize segment, where lower demand eventually led to a decline in their freight rates.

The Harper Government, on February 22, announced a series of preliminary contracts valued at a total of $15.7 million for the joint

Teekay Tankers Ltd. on Thursday reported its results for the three months ended December 31, 2012. During the fourth quarter of 2012