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ILWU and PMA agree on talks to extend labour contract for West Coast ports
Longer-term labour peace at US West Coast ports could be in the offing after a majority of delegates to a…
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Asia
Hanjin Transportation may buy Hanjin Shipping’s Long Beach terminal
Hanjin Shipping may sell its container terminal at the Port of Long Beach in California to parcel delivery firm Hanjin…
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Americas
Engineers admit illegally discharging oily water from d’Amico tanker
Two Italian engineers on Thursday admitted to a US federal court that they dumped oily waste from a tanker into…
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Americas
New CEO for Vantage Drilling
Vantage Drilling has appointed Egyptian national Ihab Toma as its next ceo, starting August 29. Toma’s 30-year background in oil…
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Americas
Eagle Bulk Shipping completes $88m fund raiser
Eagle Bulk Shipping has announced that it has closed the private placement of its common stock with an aggregate gross…
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Americas
US Senators call for public hearing about proposed Hudson River anchorages
Two members of the US Senate have called on the US Coast Guard (USCG) to hold a public hearing on…
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Americas
VDR of sunken El Faro has been successfully recovered
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced that the Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) of sunken cargo vessel El…
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Dry Cargo
NewLead bulker sold at auction
NewLead Holdings’ disputed bulk carrier has been sold at action in the US for $7.4m to Singapore’s MT Maritime Management.…
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Americas
Paragon Offshore gets agreement in principle for revised restructuring plan
Bankrupt Paragon Offshore’s revised restructuring plan has been agreed in principle with its bondholders and banks, which removes the first…
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Americas
Sino-Global Shipping America regains Nasdaq compliance
Sino-Global Shipping America has regained its Nasdaq compliance, which had been in jeopardy because of the low price of its…
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Americas
Oil spill near mouth of Mississippi
An oil spill of as much as 4,200 gallons discharged from a well into the Mississippi River near where it…
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Americas
USCG blames Fennica grounding on outdated charts
The US Coast Guard (USCG) found that out-of-date navigational charts were to blame for the grounding of the icebreaker Fennica…
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Americas
Alaskan authorities look into oil spill at Hilcorp terminal
Environmental authorities in Alaska have announced they are investigating an oil spill that occurred last week at Hilcorp Energy’s Drift…
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Americas
Hornbeck Offshore delays MPSV pair
US offshore operator Hornbeck Offshore has reached an agreement with Eastern Shipbuilding to postpone the delivery of two MPSVs on…
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Americas
Two US firms settle for more than $1m over inflating price for handling humanitarian food aid
Two US cargo handling firms have agreed to settle for $1.075m in a case where they were accused of making…
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Americas
Maersk Drilling chops 122 workers after drillship termination
Maersk Drilling is laying off 122 workers who were aboard the drillship according to a notice the company sent to…
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Americas
Mission to recover El Faro VDR set to begin
The delayed mission to recover sunken cargo vessel El Faro’s voyage data recorder (VDR) is set to begin. National Transportation…
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Americas
Diamond Offshore stacks two rigs, scrapping another two
Houston-based offshore driller Diamond Offshore has revealed that it has stacked two rigs in the last quarter and that it…
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Americas
Fraser Shipyards fined almost $1.4m for exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead
A Wisconsin shipyard has been fined almost $1.4m for exposing its workers to levels of lead way beyond the legal…
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Americas
International Shipholding Corporation files for Chapter 11
The American shipowner International Shipholding Corporation has filed for relief under Chapter 11 at a court in New York. The…
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