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Growing Pains

By Tom Peters

February 13, 2020

Transformation and innovation, do they ever stop? Not if you’re a seaport involved in the highly competitive world of moving cargo by container or any other means. Every day seems to bring somet...

Don’t Miss Out on Joining the World’s Digital Collaboration

By Mikael Lind and André Simha

February 13, 2020

The era of testbeds is opening up for an era of implementation Digitalization initiatives and data sharing are being pursued across the maritime transportation chain. Following successful testbeds...

Saving Lives With Innovation

By The Maritime Executive

February 10, 2020

Innovation in maritime search and rescue beacon technology has been developing at an exponential rate, resulting in faster detection of digital cries for help, greater accuracy in pinpointing the exac...

Unprecedented Maritime Gathering in Rotterdam

By The Maritime Executive

February 10, 2020

With the start of 2020, a new era for the maritime industry has dawned. And even though the new regulations are here, there is still a lot of uncertainty in the industry about what long term strategie...

ABS Wins Two Grants for Research on Offshore Industry Safety

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2020

ABS has been awarded more than $2.1 million for two projects focused on strengthening safety culture in the offshore oil and gas industry. The money from the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the Nati...

Remembering München and Winter in the North Atlantic 40 Years Ago

By Hans van der Ster

January 29, 2020

The Dutch ocean-going tug Smit Rotterdam with her 22,000 horsepower departed from Rotterdam in October 1978 and connected up a jack-up rig in the North Sea bound for Marseille. The weather was fai...

Audit Finds Issues with Readiness Tracking in Surge Sealift Fleet

By The Maritime Executive

January 28, 2020

In a newly-declassified audit, the Department of Defense's Office of the Inspector General reported that it found errors in how Military Sealift Command (MSC) tracks the readiness status of the U....

Six Seafarers Fall Ill as Coronavirus Outbreak Continues

By The Maritime Executive

January 28, 2020

Six seafarers aboard a French-operated container ship have fallen ill during a voyage from China to Egypt, raising concerns that they could be the first reported mariners to have contracted the new co...

Cruise Lines Act on Coronavirus Risk

By The Maritime Executive

January 26, 2020

Major cruise lines operating in Asia are banning tourists who have been in the city of Wuhan or come from Hebei Province in a bid to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus at sea. The virus has now inf...

2020 Expected to Transform the Offshore Supply Chain

By The Maritime Executive

January 22, 2020

The offshore supply chain started 2019 with the momentum of strong award levels of subsea equipment and FPSO hulls as well as improved floating rig rates. However, uneasiness has been building around...

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