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Maersk, Hyundai Merchant Marine Alliance in Doubt

December 9, 2016

Doubts about the future of Hyundai Merchant Marine surfaced on Friday after Denmark's Maersk Line said the South Korean shipping firm was no longer being considered for the 2M vessel-sharing alliance....

Retailers Question "Unfair" Container Fees

By The Maritime Executive

December 7, 2016

The U.S. National Retail Federation (NRF) and a coalition representing retailers, manufacturers, truckers, transportation intermediaries and other business groups has asked the Federal Maritime Commis...

USMMA Capital Funds May Be Diverted for Sea Year

By The Maritime Executive

December 7, 2016

The House Appropriations Committee's latest continuing resolution would allow the Maritime Administration (MARAD) to redirect the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's capital improvement funds to pay for st...

IMO Adopts Polar Code Amendments to STCW

By Craig H. Allen

December 6, 2016

At its November 21-25, 2016 meeting, the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) adopted resolution MSC.416(97), which amends the International Convention on Standards of...

SM Group Pulls Out of Long Beach Terminal Bid

By The Maritime Executive

December 6, 2016

SM Group, the South Korean owner of Korea Line, has withdrawn its bid to buy a stake in Hanjin Shipping's Long Beach terminal after struggling to raise funds for the bid according to industry sources...

Engine Room Fires Are Never Merry

By Captain Richard Madden

December 6, 2016

Engine room fires account for up to 50 percent of all fires on vessels with 70 percent of those engine room fires being caused by leaks from pressurized systems. Just this week, the chemical tanker Jo...

Canal Wars

By Jack O'Connell

December 4, 2016

With the opening of the new third set of locks, the competition between the Panama and Suez canals just got hotter. By Jack O’Connell On a hot and steamy Sunday afternoon in late June the Expand...

Team Bid for Hanjin's Long Beach Terminal

By The Maritime Executive

December 2, 2016

South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine and Swiss-based MSC are rumored to have teamed up to buy a stake in Hanjin Shipping’s Long Beach terminal. News agency Yonhap cites sources saying the compani...

"Fortress Europe"

By Erik Kravets

December 2, 2016

Bringing claims across the Atlantic is not for the faint of heart. “You goin’ to court this morning?” When posed by young Jem Finch in Harper Lee’s classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, the question...

First Steel Cut for MSC Bellissima

By The Maritime Executive

December 1, 2016

MSC Cruises held a traditional steel cutting ceremony at STX France in Saint Nazaire on Monday to mark the official commencement of construction of MSC Bellissima, the second of the Meraviglia generat...

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