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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...

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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 International Maritime Organ...

CDC Approves Additional Cruises, but Disney Postpones Over COVID Tests

CDC Approves Additional Cruises, but Disney Postpones Over COVID Tests

The cruise industry continues to make progress with its efforts to resume sailing from the U.S. ports, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) authorizing additional cruise ships to...

Seaspan Orders Six Containerships Continuing Newbuilds Record

Seaspan Orders Six Containerships Continuing Newbuilds Record

  Fueled by carriers’ efforts to expand capacity and modernize their fleets, Seaspan continues to add to the already record orderbook for new containerships. After announcing orders for two boxship...

Canadian Navy Commissions its First Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship

Canadian Navy Commissions its First Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has formally commissioned its first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), HMCS Harry DeWolf, the first vessel delivered under Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy....