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Video: Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Attacks on Two Sanctioned Tankers

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Turkey Investigates Fires on Two Sanctioned Tankers in the Black Sea

Published Nov 28, 2025 5:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Update: On Saturday, November 29, Ukraine claimed responsibility for the incidents having used drones to attack the tankers.   Turkey is investigating after two sanctioned shadow fleet tankers reported explosions and fires roughly 30 minutes apart while they were both in the Black Sea.  While it was mounting a rescue after an explosion and fire aboard a tanker named Kairos (149,989 dwt), the authority also received a report that a second tanker, named Virat (115,643...

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Nigeria Holds for Investigation the Crew of Bulker After Finding Cocaine

Published Nov 28, 2025 4:57 PM by The Maritime Executive

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) continues to hold 20 Filipino seafarers as it investigates cocaine that it found hidden in the cargo of their vessel. The Philippines Department of Migrant Workers reported yesterday that it is in touch with the authorities and the crew is being well treated but detained aboard their vessel. The incident began on November 16 when the Panama-flagged bulker Nord Bosporus (60,457 dwt), owned by a Japanese company and managed by Norden,...

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IMO Council 2026-2027 Elected Setting Stage for Work on Key Issues

Published Nov 28, 2025 2:41 PM by The Maritime Executive

In a tense, fiercely fought election, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on November 28, elected its council for the next biennial term for 2026-27. The Council is the Executive Organ of IMO and is responsible, under the Assembly, for supervising the work of the Organisation with the elections for two-year terms. The elections came at the start of the 34th session of the Assembly, which runs through December 3, and which will have an influential role as the...

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Collaboration Across the Transport Trinity: Unlocking Shared Value

Published Nov 28, 2025 10:28 AM by Mikael Lind and Wolfgang Lehmacher

Executive Teaser •    Transport reliability will emerge when the transport trinity - cargo owners, transport operators, and nodes - acts as one operating unit. •    By managing time, risk, and asset integrity as shared assets, and acting on five trustworthy signals, namely time window, connection risk, readiness, emissions, and asset conditions, the industry can move from dashboards to agreements, from observation to execution. •    This model transforms coordination into infrastructure, federated, not centralized, and built on trust, fairness, and shared...

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Cadeler Takes Delivery of Large Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

  Cadeler announced the delivery of Wind Mover, the tenth vessel to join the company’s growing fleet of next-generation wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs). The vessel is part of a new fleet of larger ships designed to handle the challenges emerging in the industry, including larger turbines. Wind Mover becomes the tenth vessel on the water for Cadeler and the second in the M-class series, following the delivery of her sister vessel, Wind Maker, earlier this year. According to the...

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Shipbuilding

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GAO Repeats Criticism of the USCG Program to Build Offshore Patrol Cutters

The Government Accountability Office has issued a new report on the U.S. Coast Guard’s program to build the Offshore Patrol Cutters and once again has criticized the approach and ballooning costs of the program. It is the third report developed by the GAO on the program and reiterates many of the same concerns that were raised in 2023, while also pointing out that no ships have yet been delivered and the uncertainties in the program. The new audit...

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Environment

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Op-Ed: Arctic States Have Less Than Two Weeks to Act on Polar Fuels

  The Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else on Earth, and this is a warning sign for elsewhere on the planet. The shipping sector has been gifted an opportunity to cut black carbon emissions from shipping in the region, which would have a near-immediate positive impact. But time is tight. December 5th is the deadline for countries to submit a crucial proposal for polar fuels, ahead of next February’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Pollution Prevention and...

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Business

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Disruptions and Delays at Maritime Chokepoints Could Cost $14B Per Year

  The challenges of the past few years have increased the awareness of the vulnerability of the shipping industry to delays as congestion builds in key ports and routes faced disruptions ranging from geopolitical issues to piracy, terrorism, or natural hazards driven by extreme weather. A new study estimates that disruptions at these critical points affect around $192 billion worth of maritime trade each year. These disruptions result in estimated economic losses of about $14 billion annually, through delays, rerouting,...

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