Shipping analyst Alphaliner has voiced a rumor that has been circulating throughout the container shipping industry: that Orient Overseas International might sell its Hong Kong-based ocean carrier Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL). “As the merger and acquisition activity has swept the

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On Tuesday, MSC Cruises announced that it has broken ground at last on the construction of its new private island, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve. Ocean Cay, a former sand-mining facility, lies just south of Bimini and about 55 nm east of Miami. After redevelopment, the

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U.S. Maritime Administrator Paul "Chip" Jaenichen has accepted a position as chief operating officer of HMS Global Maritime, the owner of Queen Steamboat Company, Seaward Services and HMS Ferries. Among other business lines, HMS is the largest private operator of

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Under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) shipowners must now have insurance to assist the seafarers on board vessels if they are abandoned. All ships, to which the convention applies, whose flag states have ratified the MLC must have the insurance certificate on board and on show in

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On January 17, offers for 56 new production licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf were sent to 29 companies. Of the 56 licenses, 36 are in the North Sea, 17 in the Norwegian Sea and three in the Barents Sea. 12 of the production licenses are additional acreage to existing

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[Brief] Philippine search and rescue teams are looking for five missing members of the crew of the cargo vessel Virginia 1, which caught fire and sank Tuesday at the entrance to Manila Bay. The Virginia had just departed Manila on a voyage to Palawan when a fire broke out on

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Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and American Society for Travel Agents (ASTA) have joined the U.S. Wildlife Trafficking Alliance to help travelers recognize and avoid purchasing the illegal wildlife products. Together, the

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The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended. Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. In a joint statement, the Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments said the decision to

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Over the weekend, nearly 100 false killer whales were found stranded on a mangrove shoreline in the Florida Everglades, and biologists are trying to determine why they headed for the shallows. It is the largest recorded stranding of the species in Florida's

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Captain Park Chul Hong, the master of the heavy lift ship Dongbang Giant II, returned to South Korea on Sunday after three months' captivity as a hostage of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist organization. On his arrival in Incheon, South Korea, Park was taken to a hospital for a full

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