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Trans-pacific Container Shipping Group Aims for Rate Rise

By The Maritime Executive

July 16, 2014

Container shipping companies were urged to raise Asia-U.S. freight rates by at least $600 per 40-foot container (FEU) with effect from Aug. 1, their organization TSA said on Wednesday. Members of the...

Canadian Ship Dismissed from RIMPAC 2014

By The Maritime Executive

July 16, 2014

A Canadian naval ship is headed home from the world’s largest naval exercise, Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC, after allegations surfaced of drunkenness and sexual misconduct by its sailors. One crewmem...

2M: What Will It Mean?

By The Maritime Executive

July 14, 2014

Maersk and MSC have taken on board China’s objections to the P3 alliance by coming up with a new vessel sharing arrangement called 2M that they hope will be agreed by all regulatory authorities before...

World First Independent Work Class ROV Course

By The Maritime Executive

July 12, 2014

The world’s first training course in work class ROV operations delivered by an independent training provider has been launched by The Underwater Centre in Fort William. The first intake of students h...

MSC Cruises Announces Medical First

By The Maritime Executive

July 11, 2014

MSC Cruises has become the first cruise line in the world to offer guests a 24/7 multilingual pediatric telemedicine service on board, through a partnership with the Giannina Gaslini Institute, in Gen...

Maersk Strikes Vessel-Sharing Agreement After P3 Failure

By The Maritime Executive

July 11, 2014

The world's top two container shipping companies, Maersk Line and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co, have struck a fresh vessel-sharing agreement after a previous three-way pooling deal known as P3 was un...

Calls for Action on Ports of Refuge

By The Maritime Executive

July 9, 2014

JOHN M Lyras, Chairman of the London P&I Club, has called for concerted international action on the provision of places of refuge for ships involved in casualties. Writing in the club’s 2014 Annual R...

Island Offshore Gets Latest Subsea Vessel

By The Maritime Executive

July 8, 2014

The Ulstein Verft subsea newbuild, ‘Island Performer’, was delivered today to ship owner Island Offshore. The flexible, state-of-the-art RLWI/IMR vessel will serve her first five years for FTO in the...

L-3 to Supply World's First Biogas Ferry

By The Maritime Executive

July 7, 2014

L-3 Marine Systems International (L-3 MSI) announced that it has been awarded a major contract to provide advanced automation, navigation, communications and electrical propulsion facilities for Samsø...

Use and Abuse in Nigerian Maritime Security

By The Maritime Executive

July 2, 2014

Op-Ed by Dirk Steffen In the night of 23 October 2013, a group of embarked Nigerian policemen on board the tanker Histria Coral opened fire on a small boat that was approaching a tanker close by on L...

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