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Japan’s First Hydrogen Dual-Fuel Tug with Combustion Engine Launched

Published Apr 2, 2025 5:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

As part of the “Zero Emission Ships Project” sponsored by The Nippon Foundation, Japan last week launched its first hydrogen dual-fuel tug. The vessel is pioneering using a high-power internal combustion engine with the industry seeking to develop expertise in the emerging sector. The new tug was launched by Tsuneishi Shipbuilding on March 28 and is the first vessel in Japan to be equipped with a high-power output hydrogen dual-fuel internal combustion engine. It also has a high-pressure...

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Panama Canal Railway

Maersk’s APM Terminals Buys Panama Canal Railway Company

Published Apr 2, 2025 4:34 PM by The Maritime Executive

In a first for Maersk’s operations, the group’s terminal company APM reports it acquired the 47-mile-long Panama Canal Railway Company from Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Lanco Group. While it is the first railroad operation in the company, executives highlighted that it is in keeping with Maersk’s intermodal logistics focus. No price was cited for the railroad which is reported to generate revenues of $77 million and EBITDA earnings of $36 million annually. The railroad was rehabilitated in...

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Korean officers search machinery spaces aboard the Lunita, April 2 (Donghae Coast Guard)

South Korean Police Set New Record With One-Tonne Cocaine Bust on Bulker

Published Apr 2, 2025 3:03 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Police in South Korea have seized one tonne of cocaine from a cargo ship arriving from South America, the largest drug bust on record in a nation with comparatively low narcotics imports.  The Korea Coast Guard and the Seoul Regional Customs Office received a tipoff from the U.S. FBI early Tuesday morning about an inbound shipment on a bulker. The vessel was headed for Korea and would soon be berthing at the port of Okgye, south of Gangneung on...

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U.S. Sanctions Russians Sending Arms and Stolen Ukrainian Grain to Houthis

Published Apr 2, 2025 2:43 PM by The Maritime Executive

As part of Donald Trump’s vow to stop the “really bad people,” through his campaign of maximum pressure, the U.S. today, April 2, imposed sanctions on Russian businessmen sending aid to the Houthis. Among the activities the U.S. is citing is the stealing of Ukrainian grain from Crimea and shipping it to Yemen and it included the captains of the vessel among the sanctions. “The Houthis remain reliant on Sa’id al-Jamal and his network to procure critical goods...

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Four US Offshore Wind Projects Seek Regulatory Pauses Due to Uncertainties

  The offshore wind energy industry in the United States continues to face challenges with four project developers each filing in the past few days to pause their state-level regulatory reviews. The developers are reported to be citing “uncertainties” in the U.S. market or seeking to create protections based on potential future actions by the Trump administration. Donald Trump placed the industry under review after returning to the White House. He has repeatedly spoken against the industry citing assertions that...

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Shipbuilding

Yang Ming containership

Yang Ming Buys Methanol Containerships as First Step in Fleet Optimization

  After reporting strong financial results for 2024, Taiwan’s Yang Ming took the first steps in a fleet optimization and expansion program first announced in December 2024. The company reported it is buying three under-construction dual-fuel methanol containerships from Japanese leasing company Shoei Kisen Kaisha. The three vessels are reported to already be on order with Imabari Shipbuilding. They are scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029 and each will have a capacity of 8,000 TEU. The report says they...

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Environment

Seagrass

Vanishing Protectors and Predators of the Saya de Malha

  In November 2022, several scientists in scuba gear dove over the side of a 440-foot research ship, which had been sent to the Saya de Mahla Bank, a vast seagrass meadow in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius and Seychelles, more than 200 miles from land. Their goal that day was to film sharks. When they were not diving, the scientists submerged a remote-controlled submarine to search the sea column. Ranked as one of the largest and most advanced research...

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Business

Lifeboats

Safety Management Systems

  Fans of complex management systems tend to live and breathe the analytics of daily operations. With the help of a strong safety management system (SMS) and properly placed sensors, any inquiring manager can learn what their vessel status is with respect to things like metered engine hours, equipment usage rates, conditions of lubricants and seals, hull conditions, onboard inventory, fire suppression systems and so on. "You can't manage what you don't measure," the quote often attributed to management wizard...

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