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Executive Interview: Carleen Lyden Walker, Co-Founder & CEO, NAMEPA
Carleen Lyden Walker is one of the best-known figures in maritime – founder of her own marketing business, co-founder of NAMEPA, f...
Read More >>First LNG Carrier with Two Wind Sails Named Ahead of Commissioning
Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines celebrated the naming of the first LNG carrier fitted with rigid sails, which is also the first vessel...
Read More >>At SMM, ABS Says the Best Green Investments are Agility and Efficiency
In a panel event just before the opening of SMM 2026, the American Bureau of Shipping updated its outlook for the state of green s...
Read More >>IMO Concludes Next Round of Net-Zero Discussions Still Divided
The International Maritime Organization completed its next working group session discussing efforts to reach a decarbonization app...
Read More >>Norway Seizes Russian Research Vessel as Ukraine Pursues Crimea Claims
The Governor of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, confirmed that under court authority, they have today, September 2, taken contr...
Read More >>Maersk to Test First Wind Rotor on a Containership
Maersk, working with the British wind propulsion company Anemoi, plans to test the feasibility of wind-assisted propulsion on one...
Read More >>Bulker Demonstrates Wind Propulsion Integrated with Solar Power
Demonstrations are underway on an innovative power solution retrofitted to an ultramax bulker as part of a four-year research proj...
Read More >>Op-Ed: FMC Chairman DiBella Calls for Rethinking IMO’s Net-Zero Framework
The Net-Zero Framework (NZF), currently under consideration at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), is an effort to redu...
Read More >>Study: Wealthy Countries Fuel Illegal Fishing in Poor Countries
Consumers in wealthy nations are fueling a rampant illegal fishing trade that has become a multibillion-dollar industry, and the m...
Read More >>Nine Killed in Toxic Gas Accident at HKC-Certified Shipbreaking Yard
On Friday, nine shipbreaking workers were killed and six more injured by exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas at the Ferdous Steel shi...
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