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A Dubai-based marine services company is building a floating hotel that will provide accommodation for people working in the offshore energy industry. Mubarak Marine will invest $19 million to build the floating…

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to propose a recreational marine diesel rule that could require large yacht builders to install exhaust after-treatment on all future yacht designs. Aware such…

The German shipbuilder Nordseewerke, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has handed over the 2,700 TEU feeder container ship ?Nona? to the Meerbusch-based shipping company GEBAB. The owner of the ship is…

French-based container line operator CMA CGM has upped the stakes against its arch rival, the Danish shipping giant Maersk Line, which recently took delivery of its first 11,000 TEU vessel, ?Emma Maersk?,…

Samsung Heavy Industries won an order for a drill ship from a ship owner in Africa at a cost of $554 million. Delivery is slated for October 2009.

California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other non-native aquatic species that harm river and Bay…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has clinches two 105,000DWT tankers from the Belgian shipping group Conti Lines. They will be delivered during 2009.

Remontowa shipyard in Poland reports that the christening took place on August 14th of the 120 tonnes bollard pull AHTS de Moulin Tide, which has since undertaken sea trials for customer Tidewater…

Crowley Maritime Corporation?s Vessel Management Services subsidiary has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine Inc. to build four more articulated tug-barges (ATB), 185,000-barrel tank vessels. The new vessels will have an…

The naming ceremony was held for another two large container ships for E.R. Schiffahrt at the Hyundai shipyard in Samho, South Korea. The two Super-Post-Panamax vessels each have a capacity of 8,204…