LoginWah Kwong & Bureau Veritas 1st SMART “Augmented Ship” in Newbuild Series
Wah Kwong Maritime Transport (“Wah Kwong”) and Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (“BV”) celebrated the delivery of the LR2 tanker Frontier Venture yest...
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Saudi Global Ports Begins Operations at Jubail Container Terminal (JCT)
Saudi Global Ports Group (SGP) has begun operations at the Jubail Container Terminal (JCT) at Jubail Commercial Port under a long-term privatization a...
World Fuel Services & West Coast Clean Fuels Establish Methanol Bunkering
World Fuel Services, in collaboration with West Coast Clean Fuels, has established a proven methanol bunkering capability available to vessel owners a...
China's Deep Sea Mining Research May Be Cover for Surveillance
[By Elizabeth Claire Alberts and Kara Fox]A Mongabay and CNN investigation found the eight Chinese state-owned ships that conduct deep-sea mining res...
UN Security Council Expected to Vote Down Use-of-Force Request for Hormuz
Three of the permanent members of the UN Security Council have signaled that they do not support a motion to authorize use of force to reopen the Str...
Russia Plans to Send Second Tanker Through U.S. Energy Blockade on Cuba
As a Russian tanker unloads in Matanzas, Cuba, breaking the de facto energy blockade imposed by the Trump administration, Moscow is said to be planni...
Fincantieri, Fraser, Donjon Shipyards Support Shipbuilding in Great Lakes
Fincantieri Marine Group and two Great Lakes shipbuilders, Fraser Shipyards (Superior, Wis.) and Donjon Marine (Erie, Pa.), have established a collabo...
How Iran Can Stop Shipping With Mines, From the Arabian Gulf to the Red Sea
[By Andy Perry]Just reports of mines are often sufficient to disrupt maritime traffic. Even if ship owners, crews and insurers weren’t aware of the m...
Samsung Heavy Industries Participates in Its First U.S. Navy MASGA Project
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries announced that it will be participating in its first U.S. shipbuilding project, working with General...
Archaeologists Uncover Danish Navy Flagship From the Battle of Copenhagen
Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreck of a famous Danish warship on the bottom of Copenhagen's harbor, a reminder of the War of the Second...
Boxship Departing Taiwan Clips Docked Ship Sending Containers into Harbor
Operations were briefly interrupted on Wednesday, April 1, at the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, after a departing containership clipped a docked vessel....
Four People Rescued by Vehicle Carrier Transiting the Bay of Biscay
Four people aboard a large sailboat were successfully rescued after their vessel began taking on water during a storm in the Bay of Biscay. UECC (Uni...
Taiwan Accuses Salvage Barge of Damaging Subsea Cable
Taiwanese officials suspect that a Chinese salvage barge damaged a subsea cable off the coast of the Matsu Islands while recovering a grounded fishin...
First LNG Carrier Among Three Omani Ships Breaking Out Through Hormuz
Three vessels, including the first LNG carrier in a month, were spotted making their way along the northern coast of Oman on Thursday, April 2, in an...
Ukraine Lines Up Plans to Sell a Sanctioned Politician's Yacht
The government of Ukraine is lining up plans to sell a yacht that formerly belonged to Viktor Medvedchuk, the pro-Russian politician who was captured...
Safeen Prestige Reportedly Sank in the Strait of Hormuz
The UAE-managed containership Safeen Prestige is reported to have finally succumbed to the fire that engulfed the vessel after it was attacked by the...
JA Moody Partners with Phoenix Lighting to Expand into Electrical Products
[By JA Moody]JA Moody, a premier supplier of flow control products to the U.S. Navy and marine industry, is proud to announce a strategic partnership...
Libya Says Tow Failed and Warns Wreck of Arctic Metagaz Is Out of Control
Libya’s Ports and Maritime Transport Authority posted an urgent notice on Thursday, April 2, warning that the wreck of the Russian-flagged LNG carrier...
Iran's IRGC is Charging Millions in Cryptocurrency for Hormuz Transits
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has begun to implement a formal system of payment and permitting for merchant ships requesting passage throu...
Fourth Aircraft Carrier Deploys From the U.S.
On Tuesday, the Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush deployed from Norfolk, and she is expected to join carriers USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Ger...
