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U.S. Suspends Licenses for Five Under Construction Offshore Wind Farms

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HM Coastguard Responds After Lifeboat Beaches

Published Dec 22, 2025 7:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

Members of the UK’s HM Coastguard were dealing with a mystery early on Sunday morning, December 21, when they started receiving reports of a lifeboat washed up on the rocky shoreline near Sidmouth on the English Channel. The Beer Coastguard Rescue Team was dispatched, and they found a larger emergency boat badly damaged sitting on the coastline. The boat was clearly marked with an IMOP number and the name of a vessel, BF Carp. Checking with the Joint Rescue Coordination...

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Ukraine Intensifies Strikes on Oil Operations in Black Sea and Caspian

Published Dec 22, 2025 6:49 PM by The Maritime Executive

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Unit and Special Operations Forces revealed the latest round of drone strikes on Russia’s oil operations. The Defense Intelligence Unit also confirmed the obvious that Ukraine has intensified its assault on the oil sector to cut off badly needed revenues for Russia. On the night of December 22, the Defense Intelligence Unit confirmed strikes on the strategic port of Taman, which lies off the Kerch Strait on the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of...

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Trump: Trump-Class Battleship Will be Flagship for Navy's New Golden Fleet

Published Dec 22, 2025 6:47 PM by The Maritime Executive

President Donald Trump has announced plans to order a future "Trump-class" battleship in large quantities, and says that he will press defense contractors to deliver it quickly. "They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," the president said at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday afternoon. In a statement, the White House confirmed that the class would be "the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed." Illustrations show...

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Hanwha and Hyundai to Square Off to Build Korea’s First Domestic Destroyer

Published Dec 22, 2025 5:25 PM by The Maritime Executive

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Promotion Committee has resolved to hold a head-to-head competition between Hanwha Ocean and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries for the country’s first domestically-produced destroyer. It selected the process after more than two years of discussion, and after elements of corporate espionage threatened to derail the whole project. The project dates back more than a decade to inception in 2011, which called for South Korea to leverage its domestic expertise in shipbuilding and electronic warfare systems to...

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U.S. Suspends Licenses for Five Under Construction Offshore Wind Farms

In its latest moves to stop the development of offshore wind energy projects, the Trump administration on Monday, December 22, announced it is suspending all the licenses for under-construction offshore wind farms. It impacts five projects, many of which are nearing completion, with a generating capacity for 5.8 GW of energy, and sent shock waves through the industry. In a statement from the Department of the Interior, the administration says the pause is due to “national security risks identified by...

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Trump: Trump-Class Battleship Will be Flagship for Navy's New Golden Fleet

President Donald Trump has announced plans to order a future "Trump-class" battleship in large quantities, and says that he will press defense contractors to deliver it quickly. "They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," the president said at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday afternoon. In a statement, the White House confirmed that the class would be "the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed." Illustrations show...

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The Kassø e-methanol project in Denmark is the largest of its kind in Europe (European Energy)

Low E-Fuel Production Slows Europe's Decarbonization

Europe’s ambitions to decarbonize the shipping industry face obstacles due to the fragile state of the alternative fuel supply chain, an analysis by the activist NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. Though Europe is setting the pace in efforts to cut down on shipping emissions, the review shows that production of green hydrogen and other e-fuels remains significantly low, with the largest e-fuel plant serving the maritime sector only becoming operational this year. For many other projects, a lack of...

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ONEX Shipyards Wins Greece’s First Newbuild Order in Decades

Greece’s ONEX Shipyards and MEGATUGS announced an agreement to build new tugboats at the Elefsina shipyard. It makes a key milestone for the restoration of the shipyard industry in Greece, as it is the first newbuild order placed in Greece in decades. MEGATUGS ordered two state-of-the-art tugboats to be built using Robert Allen’s RAstar 2800 design for ASD Escort/Terminal tugs. It also has an option to build two additional tugs at the Greek shipyard. Each of the tugs will be...

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