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Australian Cruise Ship Grounds off Papua New Guinea

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The Doraleh port expansion at Djibouti (DPFZA file image)

Port Wars in the Horn of Africa

Published Dec 28, 2025 3:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

Egyptian government sources have briefed the UAE’s National newspaper that Egypt is to help develop the ports of Assab in Eritrea and Doraleh in Djibouti, in part to better host the Egyptian naval vessels which already visit these ports, and apparently as part of its long-running campaign to put pressure on Ethiopia. Egypt has for some time being trying to force Ethiopia to negotiate over Nile water flows governed by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The dam was finally...

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Bubiyan Island – at the northern head of the Gulf, and close to both Iraq and Iran (Google Earth/Copernicus/CJRC)

Kuwait Contracts With Chinese Company to Build Port in Northern Gulf

Published Dec 28, 2025 2:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Kuwaiti government has signed a preparatory engineering, procurement and construction contract with a Chinese state-owned construction company for the first phase of the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port, to be built on Bubiyan Island. The new port, very much a brown field site, is a flagship initiative in the delivery of Kuwait’s Vision 2035 strategic development project. Chinese diplomats at the signing ceremony on December 22 were clearly delighted with the contract win for the China State Company for Communications and...

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The Maritime Executive's Most Popular Editorials of 2025

Published Dec 28, 2025 2:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

Guest posts and opinion pieces are an important part of the content we share with readers at The Maritime Executive. We are grateful to our guest authors for contributing their stories. Here are the most popular editorials of 2025, with topics ranging from naval developments to geopolitical confrontation to shadow tankers. Read on to find out more about the news and views that maritime professionals were most interested in hearing about this year. The editorials of 2025 that drew the...

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Op-Ed: Maritime Surveillance Would be Key to an Indo-Pacific Conflict

Published Dec 28, 2025 1:06 PM by The Strategist

[By David Axe] The notable thing was the timing. In back-to-back strikes on Russian air power from 18 to 20 December, the Ukrainian state security agency, the vaunted SBU, launched long-range attack drones at Russian warplanes at Belbek air base in occupied Crimea, 240 km from the front line. Imagery from the nighttime or early morning attacks indicates that the drones hit a Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor and two Sukhoi Su-27 fighters. The drone strikes on Russian warplanes were, from a...

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A rendering of Empire Wind 1, a planned wind farm currently under a halt work order from the Trump Administration (file image courtesy Equinor)

Could Northeast States Trade Pipeline Access for Offshore Wind Permits?

In mid-December 2025, the Trump Administration halted offshore wind projects from New England to Virginia, placing development on an indefinite pause. Just weeks earlier, I spoke at a conference in New England and had numerous side conversations with officials and stakeholders from across New England and New York about the outlook for maritime and energy policy. The timing was telling. The Northeast is arguably the center of the universe for offshore wind, and the perspectives expressed in those discussions ran...

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Shipbuilding

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Russia Delivers First Domestically-Built Arc7 LNG Carrier

Russia’s Sovcomflot and Zvezda shipyard heralded the delivery of its first LNG carrier, the Alexey Kosygin. They are saying it is the first of a new series of domestically-built LNG carriers that will be able to operate year-round on the Northern Sea Route and help to meet the goal of tripling LNG exports. The vessel with a capacity of 172,600 cbm was officially commissioned and handed over to Sovcomflot on December 24. It is years behind schedule due to sanctions...

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Environment

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JERA Advances Plans to Ship Ammonia Produced in Louisiana to Japan

Japan’s largest power generation and energy company, JERA, is advancing its plans to ship low-carbon ammonia from a production facility in Louisiana to Japan to fuel a power generation plant. The project, working with shipping companies NYK and Mitsui O.S.K., is expected to become the first commercial-scale effort to import ammonia fuel to Japan. The companies announced that they have signed contracts which will lead to the development of very large gas carriers designed specifically for ammonia transport. Mitsui O.S....

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Happy Holidays From the Team at The Maritime Executive

Season's greetings from The Maritime Executive! Thank you for visiting our website, subscribing to our newsletter and reading our magazine. Thanks to you, the reader, it was a banner year for TME - and we're pleased to celebrate it with you. Whether you're a shipowner, shipbuilder, merchant mariner, a supplier or in vessel operations, The Maritime Executive promises to meet your industry news and information needs in 2026. Happy Holidays and a happy New Year!

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