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Activists in Australia and France Target Ports to Highlight Causes

Published Nov 22, 2024 5:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Ports have become the renewed target of activists seeking to highlight their causes and advance their complaints against their governments. In Australia, hundreds of protestors descended on the Port of Newcastle and the surrounding beach while in France farmers finally withdrew their blockade of the Port of Bordeaux while vowing to continue their demonstrations. French farmers had been blockading the country’s seventh-busiest port and one of the largest grain terminals in the country to highlight their opposition to an...

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U.S. Navy Confirms Plan to Idle 17 Auxiliary Ships to Improve MSC Workforce

Published Nov 22, 2024 4:28 PM by The Maritime Executive

U.S. Navy commanders confirmed yesterday, November 21, that they will be taking steps to realign the operations of the Military Sealift Command under the guise of improving working conditions for the mariners and strengthening logistic support operations. Reports had surfaced during the summer that a plan was in the works driven in large part by a shortage of qualified mariners to operate the ships. “Addressing the recruiting and retention challenges in MSC’s civil service mariner workforce will take...

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Warning: Marine Engines May Also Be “Allergic” to Cashew Nutshell Biofuel

Published Nov 22, 2024 2:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

Fuel suppliers and shipping companies continue to look at a wide range of non-FAME biofuels, but a leading testing firm is warning against Cashew Nutshell Liquid biofuel. Singapore-based CTI-Maritec which provides marine environmental services and fuel testing solutions issued the warning after finding high concentrations of detrimental compounds in fuels from undeclared source materials or production processes it sampled. The alert says that ships fueling in Singapore and Rotterdam have reported a range of operational issues that led it to...

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Philly Shipyard Sued Over Construction Delays on Rock Installation Vessel

Published Nov 22, 2024 1:03 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company filed suit in the U.S. Eastern District against Philly Shipyard citing construction delays and a disagreement over the construction plan for the company’s rock installation vessel. The company is asking the court to grant a restraining order and preliminary injunction saying it is suffering harm due to the repeated delays in the delivery date for the vessel. The court filing cites that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock stipulated since it began the selection...

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Australia’s Star of the South Revises Plan Based on Feasibility Studies

  A large wind project widely considered to be Australia’s first large offshore wind farm provided a critical update defining the project after five years of feasibility studies and consultations. The Star of the South, which received its exploration license in 2019 continues to be at the forefront as Australia moves towards its first offshore wind farms. “We’ve learned a lot since we first set out to explore the potential for offshore wind in Gippsland five years ago,” said Star...

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Shipbuilding

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Philly Shipyard Sued Over Construction Delays on Rock Installation Vessel

  Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company filed suit in the U.S. Eastern District against Philly Shipyard citing construction delays and a disagreement over the construction plan for the company’s rock installation vessel. The company is asking the court to grant a restraining order and preliminary injunction saying it is suffering harm due to the repeated delays in the delivery date for the vessel. The court filing cites that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock stipulated since it began the selection...

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Environment

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Study: A Speed Limit on 3% of the Ocean Would Protect Whales

  An international group of researchers has published a new study that maps areas of whale activity with areas of high shipping activity in order to find the places with the highest risk of whale strikes, a leading cause of whale mortality (alongside fishing). The upshot, according to the research team, is that it should be possible to reduce the number of strikes by regulating marine traffic on just 2.6 percent of the ocean's surface - though that 2.6 percent...

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Business

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Shareholders Sell 1.5M More Shares in Revised CMB.TECH (Euronav) Tender

  The revised tender period related to the offer to acquire EURONAV (now known as CMB.TECH) closed yesterday, November 21 with the company reporting investors sold another nearly 1.6 million shares to CMB. It brings to a close the contentious acquisition of the former EURONAV which had been challenged by activist shareholders. “We can finally turn the page on the tender offer for the shares of our company. The fact that very few shareholders tendered their shares is...

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