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Aberdeen Harbour has recorded significant increases in traffic in the first six months of the year, as activity within the energy sector generally and the North Sea in particular continues to rise.

The island’s location, big port construction projects and plans to expand its hub role, makes it well-placed to emerge as a new maritime centre like Singapore and Dubai, said Noboru Ueda, chairman and president of ClassNK.

As offshore wind developments move further offshore, into deeper waters with more extreme weather conditions, the challenge of

Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore is leading the way in saturation diving safety in the North Sea after recently carrying out fully successful evacuation trials.

FMC Dockyard Ltd. (subsidiary of FMC Group) is about to pioneer construction of fishing trawlers in Bangladesh, with a four unit order

According to Nikkei, Japan is pondering the idea of using the Arctic Ocean as a new sea route to connect Asia with Europe in order to improve shipping efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions.

Thanks to improving weather conditions, a team of firefighting experts is able to board MSC FLAMINIA and continue the salvaging efforts on Monday.

The Board of Directors of Ezion Holdings Limited announces that it has secured a charter contract and a letter of intent to provide two

Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) is helping leading cruise lines Holland America Line (HAL) and Seabourn Cruise Line to meet regulatory

Excelerate Energy today announced it has entered into a shipbuilding option agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding

Sembcorp Marine Ltd, through Jurong Offshore Pte Ltd’s wholly-owned subsidiaries has secured total contracts worth approximately

Safe Bulkers, Inc., an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, announced yesterday its unaudited financial results for the three- and six-months periods ended June

With international pressure mounting on India to reduce its dependency on Iranian crude, the developing nation has to look further afield to source this valuable feedstock for its expanding refinery capacity.

Israel, reliant on imported energy since the state’s foundation in 1948, now has more natural gas than it can handle.

GDF SUEZ has signed a second medium term agreement with Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), the South Korean public natural gas company.

Real estate and investment firms are bidding alongside energy companies for slots at the starting line as China readies for the second heat of a shale-gas race.

Crude oil appears to turn bearish after a rally last weekend pushed US WTI Crude oil 4.9% higher on August 3. Analysts expect crude oil to face stiff resistanc at $93 levels and has retraced to $90 levels in Asian trading on Monday.

Indonesian Ambassador to Tehran Dian Wirengjurit said in Tehran on Monday that his country will continue buying Iranian oil and disregard unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The Sultanate’s total production of crude oil and condensates declined 2.44 per cent to 27,925,767 barrels, or 900,831 barrels per day during the month ended July 31, 2012, compared to the previous month

Oil hovered above $92 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as analysts estimated that supplies of U.S. crude and gasoline likely fell last week.