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COSCO Bids for OOCL

By The Maritime Executive

July 9, 2017

China's COSCO Shipping has offered to buy Orient Overseas International (OOIL) for about HK$49 billion ($6.3 billion). If the deal goes ahead, COSCO will obtain OOIL subsidiary OOCL and displace C...

Cruise Tourism On the Rise in UAE

By The Maritime Executive

July 6, 2017

Cruise tourism is on the rise in the UAE. In Dubai, 625,000 passengers arrived on nearly 160 ships over the course of the 2016/17 season – a 15 percent increase year over year. Many of the ship...

Petya Attack Shows the Need for Cybersecurity Rules

By Ian W. Gray

June 30, 2017

For the last several years, the International Maritime Organization has been discussing the possible implications of cyber-attacks to the global commerce. Last June, the IMO published its Interim Guid...

USMMA Makes Progress Towards Reaccreditation

By The Maritime Executive

June 30, 2017

Last June, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education warned the United States Merchant Marine Academy that it faced the loss of its accreditation if it did not address issues related to sexual...

Low Carbon Industry Alliance Launched at IMO

By The Maritime Executive

June 30, 2017

Leading shipowners and operators, classification societies, engine and technology builders and suppliers, big data providers and oil companies have signed up to a new Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to...

Port of Antwerp Tests Blockchain Software System

By The Maritime Executive

June 29, 2017

According to the Port of Antwerp, getting a container from point A to point B often involves more than 30 parties and 200 interactions. Given that many of these transactions are still carried out by e...

JAXPORT Approves Start of Harbor Deepening Project

By The Maritime Executive

June 29, 2017

Earlier this week, the board of directors for the Port of Jacksonville, Florida (JAXPORT) unanimously approved the start of the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening project, allocating the first phase of por...

Adm. Mark Buzby Nominated as Next Maritime Administrator

By The Maritime Executive

June 22, 2017

On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated Rear Adm. Mark H. "Buz" Buzby to be the next head of the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD). The agency’s...

Autopilot Developed for Autonomous Ships

By The Maritime Executive

June 19, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland has developed an autopilot system for remotely-monitored, autonomous ships that is capable of taking evasive action according to International Regulations for...

Skill and Cooperation Led to OSTAR Race Rescue's Success

By The Maritime Executive

June 16, 2017

New details have emerged about the sophisticated rescue operation for the sailing yacht Happy in the North Atlantic last weekend. The vessel was one of four boats in the OSTAR/TWOSTAR transatlantic ra...

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