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Norway Arrests Ship’s Officer for Flying Drone as it Tightens Port Security

Published Oct 7, 2024 7:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Norway is taking further steps to tighten security in its ports as it fears efforts by Russians and others at spying. During the summer, Norway enacted new rules to limit port access and now Gard is reporting a recent incident with a ship’s officer flying a drone. Few details were provided but Gard warns its audience that a ship’s officer aboard one of its member’s vessels was recently arrested, fined, and at risk of being deported. The officer’s offense...

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Viktor Bout

Report: Notorious Russian Gunrunner is Planning to Arm the Houthis

Published Oct 7, 2024 6:47 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is in talks with Yemen's Houthi rebels to supply them with automatic rifles, Western officials have told the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The Houthi movement is a proxy of Iran and has been attacking commercial shipping for nearly a year, killing four seafarers, sinking two vessels, and routinely launching missiles at U.S. warships and aircraft.  Viktor Bout gained a reputation as an industrious arms smuggler in the 1990s and 2000s....

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wind assisted propulsion

Jumbo Adds Wind-Assisted Propulsion Using Ventofoils on Heavy Lift Vessel

Published Oct 7, 2024 5:48 PM by The Maritime Executive

Jumbo, one of the leaders in heavy lift transport, has begun testing wind-assisted propulsion aboard one of its vessels. It is part of a program adding different elements to its vessels to measure the results in improving performance and providing energy savings the company reports. The vessel is the Jumbo Jubilee, a heavy lift carrier built for the company in 2009. It is 13,000 dwt and measures approximately 476 feet (145 meters). The vessel is powered by two...

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HMNZS Manawanui, seen here as the Edda Fonn, 2019 (Ostenjo Rederi)

Sunken NZ Navy Ship Only Had Diesel Aboard, Reducing Spill Risk

Published Oct 7, 2024 4:25 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The Royal New Zealand Navy has confirmed that the lost survey ship HMNZS Manawanui only had diesel fuel aboard, reducing the risk of environmental impact compared to heavier classes of fuel. Diesel tends to dissipate quickly in warm water, unlike thick and tarlike bunker fuel, which can foul shorelines and linger in sediment for years.  On Saturday evening, the research ship HMNZS Manawanui grounded off the southern coast of the island of Upolu, Samoa. The ship was carrying out...

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Norwegian Government Moves Forward with $3.3B Floating Wind Subsidy

The Norwegian government in its 2025 budget proposals released today confirmed that it will move forward with an earlier plan to provide roughly $3.3 billion for a proposed support scheme for floating offshore wind. Norway looks to propel the development of floating technology which is expected to play a critical part of its ambition to allocate 30 GW of offshore wind power production by 2040. “Norway has an enormous potential for floating offshore wind on its continental shelf,...

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Shipbuilding

The carrier USS George Washington during her five-year-long shipyard period at Newport News, 2017-2023 (USN file image)

At Least One Carrier and Two Subs Affected by Newport News Weld Defects

The U.S. Navy has identified three vessels affected by faulty welding work at Huntington Ingalls Newport News (HII), and has concluded that the faults have no operational impact.  So far, the vessels with known weld defects are the carrier USS George Washington, attack sub USS Hyman G. Rickover and attack sub USS New Jersey. All three vessels are reportedly safe for continued duty. News broke last week that certain Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) workers at Newport News had...

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Environment

A fisher attaching a temperature and depth sensor to his fishing net in Ghana (Ocean Data Network, Environmental Defense Fund, Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean, and the University of Ghana)

Scientists Hitchhike With Fishermen & Merchant Ships to Reach the Ocean

  [By Daniel Cressey] Doing science at sea is expensive. A billion dollars might not be enough to buy a state-of-the-art vessel. Actually running a research ship can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars a day or more, before factoring in submersible trips to the depths or helicopter flights to remote ice floes. These costs limit the number of hours researchers can spend at sea, and where they can go to gather data on fisheries, climate change, weather and...

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Business

Captain Raja Subramaniam

Changing of the Guard at Fleet Management Limited

  In a generational changing of the guard, Captain Raja Subramaniam has been appointed the new CEO of Fleet Management Limited, the world's second-largest ship management company.  Capt. Subramaniam joins the firm as "CEO elect" effective October 21, and after a transition period he will take over as CEO on January 1. He brings first-hand experience as a master mariner and as the former head of MISC Group, a leading player in offshore services and gas carrier operations.  "Captain Subramaniam’s exemplary...

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