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In July, Hanwha Ocean announced that it will be building a $200 million icebreaking research vessel for the Korean Polar Research Institute, scheduled for delivery in 2029 (Hanwha Ocean)

South Korea Offers Financial Support for Building Ice-Class Vessels

Published Sep 23, 2025 9:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

  South Korea plans to inject significant government support into its Arctic shipping plans, including a subsidy for icebreaking vessels. Earlier this month, oceans minister Chun Jae-Soo revealed that the government will offer financial support to accelerate building of ice-class ships. This followed a recent announcement that Korea would start pilot operations in Arctic shipping next year. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung campaigned on the agenda of leveraging Arctic shipping to revive the country’s southern ports. To fund these...

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Meyer Turku Secures Long-Term Building Agreement with Royal Caribbean

Published Sep 23, 2025 8:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Meyer Turk in Finland has secured a long-term agreement to build cruise ships for Royal Caribbean Group through 2036. The yard, which reports it has built 25 ships for Royal Caribbean since the mid-1990s, received a firm order for a fifth mega cruise ship of the Icon class as well as an additional option for a seventh ship of the class. Petteri Orpo, Prime Minister of Finland, said, “This new framework agreement is excellent news for Finland.” It...

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Navy

Op-Ed: The Navy's New Top Officer Needs a Radical Approach

Published Sep 23, 2025 8:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

  [By LT Chris Rielage] Navy thinkers have already laid the intellectual groundwork for aggressive change. Senior leaders now need to follow through with equally radical actions. It has been just under two years since the last Call for Notes to the New CNO, written for Admiral Lisa Franchetti – and most of those good ideas still hold true. Four different articles argued for aggressive changes to force design, shifting the fleet towards more, smaller, less manned ships. Three notes focused on the Navy’s personnel policy, arguing in different ways...

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Thamesborg aground, September 16, 2025 (Canadian Coast Guard)

Two Vessels Arrive to Help Grounded Freighter in Northwest Passage

Published Sep 23, 2025 7:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Two vessels have arrived at the site of the grounding of the Thamesborg in the Northwest Passage, the ultra-remote maze of narrows and inlets north of mainland Canada.  The freighter Thamesborg was en route from China to Quebec when it grounded in Franklin Strait, just southeast of Prince of Wales Island. Though the vessel suffered hull damage and is immobilized, there has been no pollution due to the grounding, and the crew are all safe. The icebreaking buoy tender...

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BOEM Tells Court it Wants to Resume Review of Permits for SouthCoast Wind

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management formally filed with a federal court on Thursday, September 18, calling for the court to set aside the actions of the Biden administration so that it can restart the environmental review on a Massachusetts offshore wind farm project as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing review of the industry. The Department of Justice made the filing to the federal court as part of a legal action brought in March 2025 by Nantucket,...

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Shipbuilding

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Indian Shipbuilder SDHI Moves Ahead With $480M Infrastructure Investment

  SDHI, the inheritor of the Pipavav Shipyard site, has secured an investment of about $480 million for infrastructure and training from the Gujarat Maritime Board. The funding will pay for improvements to the yard's jetties, cranes, fabrication facilities and dredged berths.  The agreement will also underwrite construction of a "center of excellence" training institute to prepare 1,000 young apprentices per year on shipyard skills - a scale nearly unheard-of in the West.  "By investing in infrastructure, capacity, and skill...

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Environment

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Fish "Fingerprints" in the Ocean Reveal Which Species Are Moving Habitats

  [By Chloe Hayes, Angus Mitchell, David Booth and Ivan Nagelkerken] pecies across the planet are on the move. Climate change has already caused more than 12,000 species to shift their homes across land, freshwater and the sea. They move to escape unfavorable conditions or to explore ecosystems that were previously inaccessible. In the ocean, some tropical fish are “packing their bags” and moving into temperate reefs to seek cooler waters. These migrations are already happening along the east coast of Australia,...

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Business

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ABS Plans to Test Out a Humanoid Robot for Classification

  Houston-based class society ABS has announced a new collaboration with robotics company Persona AI to develop a humanoid robot for shipyard uses. Robotic systems offer a way to perform the same task with fewer workers, freeing up scarce personnel for other jobs. ABS' plan for this new technology is to use robotically-collected data for classification during ship construction, enabling remote survey techniques. The trial will help develop new class standards for the type and quality of data collected by...

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