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Salazar has a Pinocchio moment

Yesterday morning Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Department of the Interior’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal what the Washington Examiner characterized as “a whopper.”

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Maersk orders ten 18,000 TEU Triple-E containerships

It’s official Maersk Line has signed a contract with Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. to build ten 18,000 TEU containerships, with an an option for an additional 20 vessels.

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Transocean orders two jack-up rigs at Keppel FELS

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) reports that a subsidiary has been awarded five-year drilling contracts for two newbuild high-specification jack-up rigs for operations in Thailand for a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX).

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Pentagon budget request funds 11 ships in FY 2012

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today unveiled the president’s fiscal year 2012 budget request for the Department of Defense. It includes a base budget request of $553 billion, and an overseas contingency

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Canadian prairie farmers get into ship owning

Canadian prairie farmers will become owners of two ships that move their wheat on the Great Lakes, under an agreement reached today between the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and shipping companies Algoma

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Kvichak sea trials foil-assisted catamaran

Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc., Seattle, has completed sea trials for M/V Defender V, a new design all-aluminum foil assisted catamaran of the shpbuilder’s own design that it recently launched. The vessel can