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Launching of China’s largest state of the art patrol vessel, Haixun 01, was held on July 28, in Hubei province, marking the country’s push forward to modernization of its surveillance fleet, China daily reports.

MISC confirms that a fifth body has been found on the vessel early this morning. The identity of the body has yet to be confirmed.

The U.S. Navy, on Friday (July 27th 2012), awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $1.5 billion fixed-price incentive contract for the detail design and construction

A new research report confirms the Asia-Europe product ‘Daily Maersk’ is a powerful differentiator for Maersk Line as it continues to lead global container shipping lines in reliability.

Lamprell, a leading provider of specialist engineering services to the international oil & gas and renewables industry, made the following announcement:

GulfMark Offshore Inc., a company which serves major offshore energy markets in the world through the provision of marine

GEOSHIPS Group, a marine and subsea services provider, has completed charter party negotiations with Singapore based Teras Offshore,

The Bunga Alpinia incident this morning had unfortunately resulted in a fatality whilst four other MISC crew members are still missing. The identity of the deceased is yet to be confirmed.

Turbine Transfers Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holyhead Towing Company, has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract by RWE

The International Maritime Pilots’ Association (IMPA) and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have joined forces to update a brochure aimed at shipping

Samsung Heavy Industries announced on the 25th that it had successfully built Pacific Orca, the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel

Global Ship Lease, Inc., a containership charter owner, yesterday announced it has signed new time charters with CMA CGM for two 4,113 TEU containerships, the 1996-built Ville d’Aquarius and the 1997-built Ville d’Orion.

The first graduates of the Lloyd’s Maritime Academy and Middlesex University MBA in Shipping & Logistics have celebrated completion

Technip has entered a long-term charter agreement for a new build offshore construction vessel with North Sea Shipping. The charter will be for a period

Mainport completed the purchase of the Forth Hunter last on Thursday 12 July in Edinburgh .

Following weeks of preparation and more than seven days of intensive, round-the-clock operations, RESOLVE Salvage & Fire, (ASIA) Pte Ltd.

Fire fighting, salvage operations, continue on the abandoned container ship mid-Atlantic after last week’s cargo explosion

Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries to supply a complete drilling equipment topside package to a new semi-submersible drilling rig the South Korean yard is building for Seadrill, the rig operator.

Fjord Line has awarded Bergen Group Fosen a supplementary contract for the two cruise ferries currently under construction.

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Alpine has towed MV Elbcarrier safely into a Guatemalan port after the vessel was drifting off the South-East Mexican isle Cozumel