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Op-Ed: The U.S. Navy Needs an Operational Level of War Strategy

Published Sep 26, 2023 3:09 PM by CIMSEC

[By Dr. Steven Wills] This article appears courtesy of CIMSEC's Notes to the New Chief of Naval Operations Series and may be found in its original form here. The United States Navy has been without an operational level of war strategy to guide its force size, design, and employment since June 1990. In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) nominee Admiral Frank Kelso put the Maritime Strategy of the 1980s “on the shelf,” stating, “military...

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Rice's whale

After Losing Lawsuit Over Whale-Protection Rules, BOEM Delays Lease Sale

Published Sep 26, 2023 2:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management cannot use new whale-protection provisions when it holds its next lease sale, finding that the agency provided too little advance notice to bidders. In response, BOEM has delayed the sale while a federal appeal led by four environmental groups proceeds.  On Friday, Judge James Cain of the 5th District Court ruled in favor of plaintiffs Shell, Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute and the State of Louisiana, who sought an injunction...

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Indonesian Navy photo of fire on Samudera Sakti III

Indonesian Navy Helps Put Out Fire on Burning Bulker off Sumatra

Published Sep 26, 2023 1:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

On Sunday, units of the Indonesian Navy and Indonesia's Joint Search and Rescue Team responded to a fire aboard the bulker Samudera Sakti III off the coast of Tangkil Island, just off the southeastern tip of Sumatra. On Sunday morning, the Sakti III was planning to berth at the port of Bukit Asam in order to take on a load of coal. At 0830 hours, a fire broke out in the engine room.  The Indonesian Navy responded by dispatching the...

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Singaporean Navy

ASEAN's First Naval Exercise: Signs of Regional Agency and Capability

Published Sep 26, 2023 12:28 PM by The Lowy Interpreter

The first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) joint military exercise, code-named ASEAN Solidarity Exercise 2023 (ASEX 2023), has just ended. Hosted by Indonesia from 19 to 23 September, it was the first ASEAN-wide military exercise not involving any external party. The exercise was non-combat in nature, involving sea and land-based activities with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), maritime security, search and rescue, medical evacuation, and anti-piracy components. All ten ASEAN members participated, with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore deploying warships....

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Offshore

Trial phase turbine installation, CVOW

BOEM Completes Environmental Review for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has completed the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for Dominion Energy's massive Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, a proposed 2.6-gigawatt installation off the coast of Virginia Beach. It is a significant regulatory milestone and marks the end of the environmental review process for the project.  "Regulated offshore wind has many benefits for our customers and local economies – it's fuel free, emissions free and diversifies our fuel mix to maintain the reliability of the...

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Shipbuilding

LCO2 design

Hanwha Ocean Launches Partnership Competing in Design Race for LCO2 Carrier

Hanwha Ocean, the recapitalized former Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea, announced a new partnership to design and commercialize a CO2 carrier. It is the latest step in the new owners of the shipyard’s efforts to reinvigorate the shipbuilding business and invest in new technologies to enhance the competitiveness of the yard. Last year when the Korean banks announced they were putting the former DSME up for sale they cited the need to invest in new technologies...

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Environment

California Shanghai green corridor

California-Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor Outlines Implementation Plan

Plans for the creation of what is being called the first trans-Pacific green shipping corridor are beginning to come together with a goal of launching the initiative with the first reduced or zero carbon ships by 2025. The Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and the City of Shanghai along with the group C40 Cities made up of mayors of nearly 100 cities, announced the development of the Green Shipping Corridor Implementation Plan Outline. The Southern California ports and Shanghai...

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Business

Kawasaki LH2 carrier

Japan's Major Shipping Companies Buy Stake in LH2-Shipping Project

The three major Japanese shipping companies, "K" Line, MOL and NYK, have agreed to buy nearly half the stock in JSE Ocean Ltd., a liquefied hydrogen transport initiative led by Japan Suiso Energy (JSE). JSE is a joint venture of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (the builder of Japan's trial-scale LH2 carrier, Suiso Frontier) and Iwatani Corporation. It was created in 2021 for the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain Project, an initiative to extract hydrogen from brown coal and ship the product to...

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