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Ghana Adopts a New Fisheries Law to Curb IUU Fishing

Published Aug 24, 2025 3:59 PM by The Maritime Executive

  In the past decade, the scourge of IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing in West Africa has grown into a bil...

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UK Funds Project to Combine Carbon and Emission Capture in Southampton

Published Aug 20, 2025 5:39 PM by The Maritime Executive

The UK is supporting the next step in emission capture systems that can be deployed in ports as a cost-effective means of reduci...

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Report: Methanol and Ammonia Fuel Are Quickly Moving from Theory to Reality

Published Aug 19, 2025 7:05 PM by The Maritime Executive

The age of methanol and ammonia-powered vessels is quickly emerging, finds a new report from the Global Maritime Forum’s G...

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The Untold Plight Of North Korean Seafood Workers in China

Published Aug 17, 2025 10:52 PM by Marcella Boehler

  In February 2023, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in China, threw a party. It had been a success...

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Greenpeace Activists Climb Shell Gas Platform in the North Sea

Published Aug 15, 2025 3:01 PM by The Maritime Executive

Activists from Greenpeace staged another demonstration this time to call attention to their demands for taxes on the fossil fuel...

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Study: Hawaii's False Killer Whales Could be Heading for Extinction

Published Aug 14, 2025 7:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The Hawaiian population of the false killer whale is trending towards extinction, according to a new study in the journa...

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Wasaline Will Launch Baltic’s First Carbon-Neutral Shipping Corridor

Published Aug 12, 2025 7:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Finland’s Wasaline will start operating the first carbon-neutral shipping route in the Baltic, achieving the company&rsquo...

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Study: Chagos Marine Protected Area Shows Value of Extra-Large MPAs

Published Aug 11, 2025 9:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The ongoing global effort to protect at least 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030 have sparked renewed intere...

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German Divers Begin Testing Retrieval System for Seabed Ordnance

Published Aug 7, 2025 6:44 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Sponsored by a German government environmental program, a Baltic Sea diving and salvage company has begun an extended tr...

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NGOs Call for IMO Action on an Arctic HFO Ban

Published Jul 31, 2025 10:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

  As shipping activity heats up in the Arctic, environmental advocates are encouraging the IMO to take action on the conti...

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