Mississippi Closed at Memphis Due to Giant Crack in Bridge Beam

Maersk increases donation for ocean cleanup

Maersk Supply Donates Second Vessel for Ocean Cleanup Efforts

Published May 12, 2021 8:26 PM by The Maritime Executive

Maersk Supply Service, which operates offshore supply vessels for the worldwide energy sector, announced that it will deploy a second vessel this summer as part of its participation with The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Since 2018, Maersk Supply Service has project managed and delivered offshore work for The Ocean Cleanup, including the tow and testing of the ocean systems. In January 2021, the company announced that it was extending its...

CDC Updates Guidance as Judge Hears Arguments in Florida’s Case

Published May 12, 2021 7:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

After being broadly criticized by the cruise industry for the level of restrictions that it plans to impose on cruise ships as they resumed sailing for U.S. ports, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance on a few points. This came as a federal judge was hearing the pending lawsuit and application for an injunction, which if granted, could revoke the CDC’s orders and permit the cruise lines to resume sailing from U.S. ports. “These instructions reflect...

China's Investments Switch From Big Infrastructure to Local Business

Published May 12, 2021 6:40 PM by The Lowy Interpreter

In a virtual meeting with a group of African students in late April, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked a question, implicitly, about China: “Are they bringing their own workers with them, or are they giving jobs to people in the country where they’re making investments?” Blinken seemed to be suggesting that Chinese projects and investments in the continent do not provide benefits to locals. This view has been prominent in the media and commentary. Certainly, it is possible to find individual examples of Chinese projects...

Eneti in Talks to Build Jones Act Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

Published May 12, 2021 6:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

Eneti, the NYSE-listed shipowner formerly known as Scorpio Bulkers, announced Tuesday that it has ordered a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) from South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. In addition, the firm said that it is in advanced talks with American shipbuilders for the construction of a Jones Act-compliant WTIV. Wind turbine installation vessels are high-spec jackups with heavy cranes, and they are some of the costliest vessels afloat (short of drillships). The contract price with DSME for...

Shipping

Time to Act on Mental Health at Sea

We need to understand the scale of the problem of mental health at sea, offer solutions and support – and take action to help struggling seafarers. The pandemic shone a light on the essential workers keeping our world turning. Yet there were some essential workers who were very much out of sight, out of mind. At any time, there are more than 1.4 million seafarers on the world’s waterways, delivering fuels, foods and medical supplies across the globe. Yet when...

Tugs & Salvage

Mississippi Closed at Memphis Due to Giant Crack in Bridge Beam

The U.S. Coast Guard has shut down traffic on the Lower Mississippi River at mile marker 736 because of a major crack in a span of the Hernando de Soto Bridge, which carries Interstate 40 over the river at Memphis. Photos of the crack appear to show the two-foot-wide steel box beam broken nearly in two at a location near the bridge's center pier, on one end of the span on the Tennessee side of the bridge. Three of the...

Government

Egypt Approves Plan to Expand Southern Suez Canal

Authorities in Egypt have officially unveiled plans to expand and deepen the Suez Canal waterway after a mega-ship blockage caused substantial losses and raised the prospect that shipping lines might seek alternative routes. On Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi approved the project, which will involve the widening and deepening of the southern part of the canal where giant boxship Ever Given went aground and blocked traffic for six days in March. Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chairman Osama Rabie unveiled the expansion...

Piracy

Crewmember Attacked During Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

The ReCAAP piracy reporting center has issued a new warning about the risk of boardings and armed robberies in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait traffic separation scheme. On April 17, two ships were boarded and robbed within the span of four hours - and in one incident, a crewmember was injured in a confrontation with the criminals. In the first incident, a product tanker was transiting the strait when the engineer on duty saw a robber attempting...

Cruise Ships

CDC Updates Guidance as Judge Hears Arguments in Florida’s Case

Ports

Port of Corpus Christi Plans Green Hydrogen Production Facility

The Port of Corpus Christi, Teas is joining a growing list of ports around the globe seeking to become part of the emerging hydrogen infrastructure to support the maritime and other industries. The port plans to develop renewable energy infrastructure to support the production of green hydrogen and potentially to provide renewable power directly to the port and its customers. The Port of Corpus Christi Authority entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Ares Management, a California-based alternative investment manager,...

Shipping

Time to Act on Mental Health at Sea

Tugs & Salvage

Mississippi Closed at Memphis Due to Giant Crack in Bridge Beam

Government

Egypt Approves Plan to Expand Southern Suez Canal

Piracy

Crewmember Attacked During Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

Cruise Ships

CDC Updates Guidance as Judge Hears Arguments in Florida’s Case

Ports

Port of Corpus Christi Plans Green Hydrogen Production Facility

Offshore

Eneti in Talks to Build Jones Act Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

Shipbuilding

VSM: Asian Shipbuilding Subsidies Put German Shipyards at Risk

German shipbuilding association VSM is warning of the risk of an "irreversible loss" of skill in the country's powerhouse marine equipment and shipyard sectors due to distortions in international competition. Without government intervention at the national and EU level, warned VSM, Germany's yards run the risk of significant decline over the next decade. Like others, German shipbuilders have been losing ground to Asian competitors for general-purpose merchant vessels for many years, and the sector has been sustained by specialization in...

Environment

NGOs Call on EU to Exclude Biofuel and LNG from New Clean-Fuel Program

A coalition of NGOs led by Transport & Environment has called on the European Commission to "explicitly exclude" biofuels and natural gas from a new clean marine fuel initiative, advocating for investment in electricity-based fuels instead. The European Commission's proposed FuelEU Maritime initiative is intended to accelerate the uptake of low-carbon fuels for vessels calling at EU ports. It parallels (but does not overlap with) the separate EU Parliament proposal to incorporate European shipping's CO2 emissions into the EU Emissions Trading...

Business

China's Investments Switch From Big Infrastructure to Local Business

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