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USCG Will Allow Mariners to Renew Credentials Up to Six Years Late
Acting on a request from industry organizations, the U.S. Coast Guard has decided to let former merchant mariners renew their expi...
Read More >>Floating Pier for Gaza is Fully Assembled and Ready to Install
The White House's aid pier plan for Gaza is taking shape, and the floating causeway and offshore receiving platform are fully...
Read More >>MSTS Vessel Grounded While Navigating as Master Left the Bridge for a Meal
A master’s decision to leave the bridge of his ship while it was maneuvering and a failure to follow navigational...
Read More >>Video: Ukraine Is Adding Anti-Aircraft Missiles to its Suicide Drones
Ukraine's intelligence service has claimed a hit on yet another Russian Navy vessel using its Magura V5 suicide drone. The dev...
Read More >>GAO: US Shipyard Issues are Second-Biggest Defense Readiness Problem
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) sees the U.S. Navy's shipyard industrial base as the second-greatest readiness prob...
Read More >>ITF Calls Out "Worst Case of Seafarer Abandonment Ever Seen"
The International Transport Workers' Federation has identified another Mideast vessel operator that has allegedly abandon...
Read More >>Smugglers Toss 2.5 Tons of Cocaine Overboard to Escape Royal Navy Pursuit
The latest interdiction in the Caribbean by the Royal Navy’s patrol ship HMS Trent sounds like a scene from a moti...
Read More >>Equatorial Guinea May Be Holding S. African Engineers Over Seized Yacht
The government of South Africa is working to secure the release of two oil and gas executives who were charged and swiftly convict...
Read More >>Workers Find Rare Artifact From WWII's "Greatest Raid," Operation Chariot
A museum near St. Nazaire, France is now the proud owner of a hatch from HMS Campbeltown, found about 100 yards away from the dryd...
Read More >>U.S. Special Ops Gunship Decimates Fishing Boats in South China Sea Test
U.S. military units are training alongside Philippine forces in the South China Sea this month, preparing for a range of maritime...
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