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FMC Gets Serious on Carrier Competition, Bringing in Dept. of Justice

FMC Gets Serious on Carrier Competition, Bringing in Dept. of Justice

To emphasize its growing interest in ocean carriers' pricing policies, the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is highlighting its partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Divi...

Ocean Carriers Push Back on White House's Scrutiny of Pricing

Ocean Carriers Push Back on White House's Scrutiny of Pricing

Ocean carriers are pushing back against the White House's push to scrutinize pricing power in the container shipping industry. Last week, as part of a broad executive order targeting anticomp...

Opinion: Strategic Sealift is Broken - Which Direction Are We Headed?

Opinion: Strategic Sealift is Broken - Which Direction Are We Headed?

[By David Sloane] In March of 2020, Commanding Officer of U.S. Transportation Command Gen. Stephen R. Lyons told the U.S. House Readiness Subcommittee and the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcomm...

16 Shipping Lines Slow Down to Protect Blue Whales and Blue Skies

16 Shipping Lines Slow Down to Protect Blue Whales and Blue Skies

Partners in an initiative to cut air pollution and protect endangered whales announced results from the 2020 program and recognized the shipping companies that successfully participated, reducing spee...

Maritime Executive

Clandestine Cargo: Hiding U.S. Sealift in Plain Sight

[By Christian Morris and Heather Bacon-Shone] Insulated by oceans to the east and west, and friendly neighbors to the north and south, America will always have to concern itself with sealift when f...

More Peacetime Jobs are Needed to Sustain a War-Ready Merchant Marine

More Peacetime Jobs are Needed to Sustain a War-Ready Merchant Marine

[By LCDR Adena Grundy] Based on data from the recent Maritime Workforce Working Group Report, there is an estimated 2,000 U.S. mariner shortfall for sustaining sealift in support of a major nationa...

Xeneta: Container Rates Remain High, but Increases are Slowing

Xeneta: Container Rates Remain High, but Increases are Slowing

After numerous reports of the rapid rise in long-term contracted freight rates to record levels, there may be some signs of a slowing in the increases - but no relief for the financially battered ship...

More Shipping Companies Testing Biofuel in Operations

More Shipping Companies Testing Biofuel in Operations

A growing number of shipping companies in different parts of the industry are continuing to experiment with the use of biofuels as a near-term means of improving the environmental performance of their...

U.S. Strategic Sealift's Merchant Mariner Problem

U.S. Strategic Sealift's Merchant Mariner Problem

[By Geoffrey Brown] The first time I heard about Strategic Sealift was during my orientation as a civilian employee at U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), three months after I started the job...

ABB Completes Key Stage in DNV Cyber Security Type Approval Process

ABB Completes Key Stage in DNV Cyber Security Type Approval Process

[By: ABB] ABB’s automation, propulsion and switchboard systems for vessels have successfully been verified to meet DNV’s class notation ‘Cyber secure SP0’, based on the Inte...