gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

By Kateryna Choursina and Áine Quinn (Bloomberg) — From his post at the mouth of the Black Sea, Ukrainian ship inspector Ruslan Sakhautdinov has seen

A Panama-flagged vehicle carrier carrying more than 4,500 cars and 1,300 tons of oil from South Korea to Singapore caught fire and is now drifting in the

A fire has erupted in containers toppled at the Port of Iskenderun by the powerful earthquakes that rocked Turkey Monday . More than 2,400 people are believed

MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The European Union’s full embargo of Russian oil products came into effect on Feb. 5, but data from traders and

By Vinicy Chan, Dinesh Nair and Manuel Baigorri (Bloomberg) — French shipping tycoon Rodolphe Saade is ramping up his hunt for acquisitions, with an eye

By Cecilia Yap (Bloomberg) Two Chinese coast guard ships and two militia vessels tailed a Philippine warship near Mischief Reef in the South China Sea, the

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –For decades, a steady stream of ocean tankers has filed back and forth between a small cluster of ports in northwest

By Randall Hill, Phil Stewart and Jeff Mason SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C., Feb 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese

(Reuters) – The Italian trade union USB filed a legal complaint against a plan by gas grid operator Snam SRG.MI to set up a new

Some incredible video coming from the U.S. Coast Guard’s 13th District showing the rescue of a mariner as a wave capsizes his vessel in waters off the

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to intensify talks with China and other Southeast Asian countries to finalize a code of conduct

By Faseeh Mangi and Kamran Haider (Bloomberg) –Pakistan’s inflation quickened to the fastest in almost 48 years in January as thousands of

BRASILIA, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said,

By Ira Breskin – Failure of a benchmark ship lease to address the environmental and financial impact of charterers’ operational decisions could

By Archie Hunter, Alix Steel and Grant Smith (Bloomberg) — The “shadow fleet” of ships that transport Russian oil around the world has expanded to

U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board teams have been sent to Argentina to help investigate a string of incidents involving the death and

The U.S. Central Command is reporting yet another significant seizure of weapons in the Gulf of Oman along a route known for weapons trafficking from Iran to

By Jorge Valero, Alberto Nardelli and Ewa Krukowska (Bloomberg) — European Union member states agreed to impose a cap of $100 per barrel on sales of

A Louisiana jury has awarded more than $27 million to the family of an offshore worker who was fatally injured in a 2018 workplace accident on an oil and

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A parallel freight market is emerging for exports from China that undercuts the lowest container spot rates. Asia-North