Aging Shadow Tanker Uses STS to Second Shadow Tanker to Skirt Indian Ban

Seahaven: Redefining Cruise Ship Safety and Unlocking Revenue Potential

Published Apr 4, 2025 2:01 PM by Survitec

In an era where safety, efficiency, and commercial viability define the cruise industry's trajectory, Survitec's Seahaven system emerges as a groundbreaking innovation. The world's largest inflatable lifeboat, Seahaven, is setting new benchmarks in passenger safety, vessel optimisation, and operational effectiveness. The Future of Cruise Ship Safety and Efficiency Cruise ship design has long been constrained by the bulk and complexity of traditional davit-launched lifeboats. While these lifeboats fulfil regulatory safety requirements, they often limit vessel design flexibility and consume...

Global Cruise Outlook: Building Momentum

Published Apr 4, 2025 12:49 PM by The Maritime Executive

Fueled by strong demand, record bookings and higher pricing, the cruise industry soared to new heights in 2024. This year looks even better. The momentum has been building since the industry’s restart in 2021. After exceeding 2019’s record 30 million passengers in 2023, industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) forecast nearly 10 percent growth or a total of 34.7 million passengers in 2024. Analysts now believe the industry exceeded 35 million passengers last year, which led CLIA...

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

Published Apr 4, 2025 12:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

The latest Chinese port operation to come under pressure is Australia’s Port of Darwin which is now a headline issue in the upcoming federal elections. Today, April 4, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared during a radio interview that Darwin “should be in Australian hands.” Concerns have been brewing over the now decade-old deal that ceded control of the port to a Chinese company. Located on Australia’s north central coast the port while small in scope is seen as...

Report: Iran is Pulling Advisors Out of Yemen

Published Apr 3, 2025 10:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Navy air strike campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels is producing results, according to officials in Iran and the United States. The Iranian military is pulling personnel out of Yemen in order to reduce the risk of casualties or escalation, a senior Iranian official told the Telegraph - a significant victory for the Trump administration's policy. The strikes have also forced the Houthis to slow the pace of their missile attacks on Israel and on U.S. forces in the...

Shipping

Op-Ed: We Need New Cross-Industry Collaboration to Reach Net Zero

Coming from Switzerland, the International Year of Glacier Preservation and World Water Day’s glacier theme strike a chord with me. I have witnessed the alarming retreat of Swiss glaciers firsthand—a 65% ice loss since 1850, with 10% gone in just 2022-2023. Maritime has a front-row seat to glacial and polar melting, with rising sea levels, surging storms, and threats to coastal infrastructure. If the climate crisis escalates, supply chains and industries...

Tugs & Salvage

UK Report Says Solong Did Not Have Lookouts Despite “Patchy” Visibility

The UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch released initial results from its ongoing investigation into the “very serious marine casualty” resulting from the containership Solong hitting the anchored tanker Stena Immaculate. While many of the details have already leaked in the media, it confirmed the now-arrested master of the Solong was alone on the bridge despite the presence of fog in the area and functioning with no more than approximately seven hours of sleep between watches. The Portuguese-flagged containership was...

Government

New Zealand Court of Inquiry Identifies Training in Loss of Survey Vessel

The Royal New Zealand Navy released the final results of its Court of Inquiry into the shocking October 2023 loss of its survey vessel HMNZS Manawanui, the first vessel lost by the Navy since World War II. While the preliminary report released in November 2024 identified human error issues including failing to disengage the autopilot, the final report delves deeper to identify the underlying issues that they believe contributed to the loss of the vessel. The...

Corporate News

Army Corps, Eastern Shipbuilding, Royal IHC

USACE, Eastern Shipbuilding, Royal IHC Start Construction of New Dredge

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined contractors Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Royal IHC on April 4, 2025, in Panama City, FL for a steel cutting ceremony, kicking off construction of a Medium Class Hopper Dredge (MCHD) to replace the Dredge McFARLAND of the Army Corps’ Philadelphia District. The event was attended by USACE Headquarters, North Atlantic Division, Marine Design Center, and Philadelphia District leadership as well as Royal IHC and Eastern Shipbuilding Group leadership. “This new dredge is...

Cruise Ships

Cruise Passenger Charged with Assault After “Barefoot Dancing” Incident

In recent years there have been many reports of passengers acting badly and even a few brawls aboard cruise ships. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and lawyers are confirming the CEO of a California-based title insurance company was charged in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week after an altercation that started with a fellow passenger dancing barefoot on a bar aboard Virgin Voyages’ ship Resilient Lady. The widely reported incident took place last Monday night, March...

Ports

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

Shipping

Op-Ed: We Need New Cross-Industry Collaboration to Reach Net Zero

Tugs & Salvage

UK Report Says Solong Did Not Have Lookouts Despite “Patchy” Visibility

Government

New Zealand Court of Inquiry Identifies Training in Loss of Survey Vessel

Corporate News

USACE, Eastern Shipbuilding, Royal IHC Start Construction of New Dredge

Cruise Ships

Cruise Passenger Charged with Assault After “Barefoot Dancing” Incident

Ports

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

Offshore

Ineos acquired CNOOC's 21 percent stake in the Shell-operated Appomattox platform, above (Shell file image)

China's CNOOC Exits U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas

British energy company Ineos has completed a planned acquisition of the U.S. Gulf assets of Chinese state oil major CNOOC. The purchase gives Ineos non-operated interests in Shell's Appomattox platform and Hess' Stampede platform, along with several mature assets and supporting business units. Reuters reports that the transaction price came to about $2 billion. “This is a major step for us into the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, which builds on our growing energy business. INEOS Energy is all...

Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding Orders Rebound as South Korea Looks to Benefits from U.S. Fees

South Korea’s shipbuilding industry is highlighting a rebound in orders in March after a slow start to the year. It comes as the industry looks for ways to benefit from the proposed U.S. fees on Chinese-built ships. To combat the growing Chinese domination of shipbuilding, South Korea’s strategy has included a focus on high-value ships and larger, more technologically advanced ships. This includes all forms of gas carriers where South Korea continues to lead the orders despite China’s...

Environment

ENEOS Joins Maersk and APM Investing $100M in U.S. Green Methanol Project

Japan’s leading energy company ENEOS is joining with A.P. Moller Holding and A.P. Moller – Maersk investing $100 million in C2X, the green methanol developer launched in 2023 by A.P. Moller Holding. The proceeds will primarily be used to fund the final development of a Louisiana project to produce green methanol as well as to advance C2X’s current efforts in the U.S., Spain, and Egypt to build green methanol production for the shipping, aviation, and chemical sectors. C2X reports the...

Business

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Aging Shadow Tanker Uses STS to Second Shadow Tanker to Skirt Indian Ban

Seahaven: Redefining Cruise Ship Safety and Unlocking Revenue Potential

Global Cruise Outlook: Building Momentum

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

Report: Iran is Pulling Advisors Out of Yemen

Op-Ed: We Need New Cross-Industry Collaboration to Reach Net Zero

UK Report Says Solong Did Not Have Lookouts Despite “Patchy” Visibility

New Zealand Court of Inquiry Identifies Training in Loss of Survey Vessel

USACE, Eastern Shipbuilding, Royal IHC Start Construction of New Dredge

Cruise Passenger Charged with Assault After “Barefoot Dancing” Incident

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

Seahaven: Redefining Cruise Ship Safety and Unlocking Revenue Potential

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Op-Ed: We Need New Cross-Industry Collaboration to Reach Net Zero

UK Report Says Solong Did Not Have Lookouts Despite “Patchy” Visibility

New Zealand Court of Inquiry Identifies Training in Loss of Survey Vessel

USACE, Eastern Shipbuilding, Royal IHC Start Construction of New Dredge

Cruise Passenger Charged with Assault After “Barefoot Dancing” Incident

Chinese Control of Darwin Port Becomes Key Issue in Australian Elections

China's CNOOC Exits U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas

Shipbuilding Orders Rebound as South Korea Looks to Benefits from U.S. Fees

ENEOS Joins Maersk and APM Investing $100M in U.S. Green Methanol Project

Seahaven: Redefining Cruise Ship Safety and Unlocking Revenue Potential

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