Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to provide the design and equipment for two salvage tugs being built for the Suez Canal Authority (SCA).

Progress in the effort to secure the cargo of a Japanese-built oil tanker turned floating storage and offloading vessel moored off Yemen for the past 36 years finally appeared possible this week with the arrival of a salvage team from Boskalis to...

The number of larger ships lost last year was down by more than a third, but the dark fleet is the latest safety concern, while there was also a jump in the number of fires onboard vessels, according to insurer Allianz.

The tanker fleet of Venezuela’s oil major PDVSA is at risk of oil spills, sinking, fires, collision or flooding, according to an internal report seen by Reuters.

Iran has seized a second tanker in under a week in the area of the Strait of Hormuz.

Three seafarers are missing from an Aframax tanker Pablo which caught fire off the coast of Malaysia on Monday.

A US-bound oil tanker has been detained by the Iranian navy in the latest incident to hit international shipping operating in the Middle East.

Steamship Mutual has warned its members over a safety recall notice affecting 570,000 Hyundai Motor America and Kia America vehicles.

Reported piracy incidents in the first quarter 2023 were the lowest Q1 figures since 1993.

Singapore-flagged chemical tanker Success 9 was boarded by pirates at around 1400 hrs UTC on April 10, according to reports.