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To Offset Declining Frigate Force, UK Debuts Unmanned Strategy for GIUK Gap

Published Dec 8, 2025 5:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

  To offset increasing Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic, the Royal Navy is rolling out a new plan for high-tech monitoring in the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap, the line of control that separates Russia's Northern Fleet from the open ocean. The service is putting new emphasis on unmanned technology for this task, reflecting the age and uncertain future of its conventional frigate fleet. In a display day for media last week, British Secretary of State for Defense John Healey...

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EPS Tanker Studied to Determine Results of Wind-Assisted Propulsion

Published Dec 8, 2025 5:02 PM by The Maritime Executive

A new study seeks to quantify the beneficial impact of adding wind-assisted propulsion to vessels while also establishing a framework for assessing the technology’s benefits in reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The study, which took place on the Eastern Pacific Shipping product tanker Pacific Sentinel (50,322 dwt), was conducted in association with the Global Center for Maritime Decarbonisation in Singapore.   The authors of the study highlight that one of the key barriers to the adoption of wind-assisted...

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U.S. Navy Picks Damen's LST-100 Design for Marine Corps' Landing Ships

Published Dec 8, 2025 4:04 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The U.S. Navy has picked Damen's LST-100 design as its final selection for the Landing Ship Medium (LSM) program, emphasizing produceability and affordability rather than exquisite capability for the high-end fight.  According to Navy Secretary John Phelan, the selection is an "operationally-driven, fiscally-disciplined choice" that will deliver oceangoing, beach-capable cargo vessels to the Navy and Marine Corps on a "responsible timeline." A present this capability is only found in the U.S. Army's watercraft community, which operates a small fleet...

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Vietnam and Malaysia Coordinate to Rescue Crew from Listing Cargo Ship

Published Dec 8, 2025 2:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Vietnamese officials are highlighting a successful coordination with their counterparts in Malaysia to rescue the crew from a cargo ship that had taken on a dangerous list. The crew was safely transported to Malaysia while attempts are being made to tow the cargo ship Kayo (5,200 dwt). The incident began around midnight on Friday, December 5, when the Vietnamese Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center picked up a distress call from the cargo ship Kayo. The vessel, built in...

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Wind Farm to Power Amazon and Google Sends First Power to German Grid

  The Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm started feeding its first power to the German grid on December 3. The wind farm marks another milestone both for Germany and the EU, becoming the largest offshore wind farm in Ørsted’s German portfolio and one that has contracted more than four-fifths of its power with long-term corporate power purchase agreements. Located about 45 miles off the German coast in the North Sea, the project is being developed in a partnership between...

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Saronic Secures $392M Unmanned-Vessel Contract From the U.S. Navy

  Autonomous vessel company Saronic has secured a U.S. Navy production contract worth $392 million for its Corsair unmanned vessel, a 24-foot speedboat with a 1,000-pound payload. It is the entry point for an ever-growing series of vessels in the startup's lineup, which extends from a six-foot mini-drone up to an 180-foot aluminum vessel capable of carrying containerized payloads. The contract was first reported by DefenseScoop in August, but the announcement provides additional details. "With Saronic, we went from...

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EPS Tanker Studied to Determine Results of Wind-Assisted Propulsion

A new study seeks to quantify the beneficial impact of adding wind-assisted propulsion to vessels while also establishing a framework for assessing the technology’s benefits in reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The study, which took place on the Eastern Pacific Shipping product tanker Pacific Sentinel (50,322 dwt), was conducted in association with the Global Center for Maritime Decarbonisation in Singapore.   The authors of the study highlight that one of the key barriers to the adoption of wind-assisted...

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CATL Expects Oceangoing Battery-Electric Vessels Within Three Years

  Leading battery-maker CATL is already big in the business of electric vessels, thanks to burgeoning interest from China's domestic operators, and it believes that the market is only going to get bigger. At Marintec last week, the head of the company's marine division predicted that ocean-going electric vessels will be plying the seas within three years - defying green-fuel technologists who say that battery-electric designs lack the power density needed for transoceanic voyages. CATL makes more lithium-ion batteries than...

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