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Ukraine Attacks Two Russia-Linked Tankers, And Possibly Three

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Iranian Navy Commander Outlines Future Deployment Plans

Published Nov 28, 2025 6:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The commander of the Regular Iranian Navy (Nedaja) Rear Admiral Shahram Irani announced that the Nedaja has - or is shortly to dispatch - two flotillas on long-range deployments. The reports of the missions came as most of the major units of his fleet are, however, tied up in the Bandar Abbas Naval Harbor. Using satellite imagery, The Maritime Executive highlighted the concentration of vessels in Bandar Abbas harbor which has become the new normal since the...

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Accused Coordinator of Nord Stream Pipeline Attack Extradited to Germany

Published Nov 28, 2025 6:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Germany’s Federal Prosecutor confirmed on Friday, November 28, that it has completed the extradition and arrest of one of the accused coordinators of the 2022 attack on the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 1 and 2. Serhii Kuznietsov, age 49 and a former Ukrainian military officer, was transferred to German custody on November 27, and the Federal Court of Justice officially issued the arrest warrant today. Kuznietsov, who was arrested in Italy in August, has repeatedly denied involvement in...

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Turkey Investigates Fires on Two Sanctioned Tankers in the Black Sea

Published Nov 28, 2025 5:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Update: On Saturday, November 29, Ukraine claimed responsibility for the incidents having used drones to attack the tankers.   Turkey is investigating after two sanctioned shadow fleet tankers reported explosions and fires roughly 30 minutes apart while they were both in the Black Sea.  While it was mounting a rescue after an explosion and fire aboard a tanker named Kairos (149,989 dwt), the authority also received a report that a second tanker, named Virat (115,643...

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Nigeria Holds for Investigation the Crew of Bulker After Finding Cocaine

Published Nov 28, 2025 4:57 PM by The Maritime Executive

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) continues to hold 20 Filipino seafarers as it investigates cocaine that it found hidden in the cargo of their vessel. The Philippines Department of Migrant Workers reported yesterday that it is in touch with the authorities and the crew is being well treated but detained aboard their vessel. The incident began on November 16 when the Panama-flagged bulker Nord Bosporus (60,457 dwt), owned by a Japanese company and managed by Norden,...

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Cadeler Takes Delivery of Large Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

  Cadeler announced the delivery of Wind Mover, the tenth vessel to join the company’s growing fleet of next-generation wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs). The vessel is part of a new fleet of larger ships designed to handle the challenges emerging in the industry, including larger turbines. Wind Mover becomes the tenth vessel on the water for Cadeler and the second in the M-class series, following the delivery of her sister vessel, Wind Maker, earlier this year. According to the...

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Shipbuilding

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GAO Repeats Criticism of the USCG Program to Build Offshore Patrol Cutters

The Government Accountability Office has issued a new report on the U.S. Coast Guard’s program to build the Offshore Patrol Cutters and once again has criticized the approach and ballooning costs of the program. It is the third report developed by the GAO on the program and reiterates many of the same concerns that were raised in 2023, while also pointing out that no ships have yet been delivered and the uncertainties in the program. The new audit...

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Environment

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Op-Ed: Arctic States Have Less Than Two Weeks to Act on Polar Fuels

  The Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else on Earth, and this is a warning sign for elsewhere on the planet. The shipping sector has been gifted an opportunity to cut black carbon emissions from shipping in the region, which would have a near-immediate positive impact. But time is tight. December 5th is the deadline for countries to submit a crucial proposal for polar fuels, ahead of next February’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Pollution Prevention and...

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Business

Shipbreaking yards, Alang, India, as viewed from space (NASA, 2020)

The HKC–Cash Buyer Nexus: A Structural Loophole

  The global debate on ship recycling has, for far too long, centered on scenes from the beaches of South Asia: ships driven ashore at high tide, steel plating cut by hand, and regulators struggling to impose control over a complex and opaque industry. Yet these images, while powerful, do not reveal the true center of gravity in the global recycling system. The real locus of power lies upstream in the commercial and regulatory architecture that determines the final voyage...

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