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Salvage Plan Being Developed for ONE Containership After Multi-Day Fire

Published Nov 25, 2025 12:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

A formal salvage plan is being developed for the containership ONE Henry Hudson (98,849 dwt) after the weekend fire aboard the vessel briefly interrupted operations in the Port of Los Angeles. The Unified Command supervising the efforts reported late on Monday, November 24, that fire suppression was continuing while it appears the fire has largely been resolved aboard the 9,100-TEU containership. The report indicated that the vessel’s crew and an unspecified contracted salvage team were monitoring for hot...

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German Researchers Build a Grapple Mini-Sub to Remove Trash

Published Nov 24, 2025 11:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

    Ocean litter tech projects generally focus on visible, floating trash that drifts on the surface and washes up on shore. But a team with Technical University Munich (TUM) has taken a different tack and devised an unmanned grapple robot to pick up trash from the bottom, where pollution may be out of sight but not out of the ecosystem.  In harbors and along busy waterfronts, the seabed typically contains an abundance of sunken trash. In one study in the...

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Flag Registry Strains the Cook Islands' Relations With New Zealand

Published Nov 24, 2025 10:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The government of New Zealand is displeased with a semi-independent territory, the Cook Islands, which has outsourced its maritime registry to a private firm and ruffled diplomatic feathers. Maritime Cook Islands, a for-profit flag based in Rarotonga, attracted attention for the shadow fleet tankers accumulating on its registry last year - and Auckland has yet to forgive it. Thanks to this dispute, plus the Cook Islands' increasingly close relationship with China, New Zealand has paused foreign aid and de...

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Study: Starlink Could Be Jammed Using Hundreds of Drone Aircraft

Published Nov 24, 2025 9:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

  One of Ukraine's key advantages in the defense against Russia is the "unjammable" over-the-horizon communication service provided by Starlink, the low earth orbit satcom service provided by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Among other applications, the service has powered Ukraine's long-range drone boats, enabling Ukrainian special forces to dominate the battle for the Black Sea. All major naval powers are developing similar concepts for unmanned, autonomous, remote-controlled and networked drone vessels, and that means a long-term demand for resilient satcom -...

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Court Paves Way for Sale of Venezuelan-Owned Refiner Citgo

  As the U.S. military prepares for likely action in Venezuela, a judge in Delaware has approved the sale of Venezuelan-held Citgo Petroleum, bringing relief for creditors who lost billions when the Venezuelan government defaulted on debts.  The bid by Amber Energy, a division of hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, offers a total of $5.9 billion in cash and $2.9 billion in debt settlements for the sale of PDV Holding. PDV is the parent company of Citgo Petroleum, America's seventh-largest refiner....

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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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Diana Shipping to Continue Dry Bulk Consolidation with Offer for Genco

  Dania Shipping, which bills itself as a leader in the dry bulk sector, is seeking to continue the market consolidation as it finally made a move to acquire US-based Genco Shipping & Trading. Genco bills itself as the largest U.S.-headquartered dry bulk shipowner, and combined, they would have a fleet of approximately 80 vessels with approximately 9 million dwt. Diana’s Chief Executive Officer, Semiramis Paliou, highlighted that the offer, which came in the form of a non-binding indicative proposal,...

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