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Ocean Containers: A Half-Century of Logistics Excellence

By The Maritime Executive

April 20, 2006

It has been 50 years since the introduction of the shipping container, which revolutionized the ocean freight industry. The father of this remarkable invention was North Carolina native Malcom McLe...

BP Reportedly Agrees to Pay Record Charter Rate for Drill Ship

By The Maritime Executive

April 20, 2006

In an apparent effort to ensure adequate control of shrinking natural resources, BP has reportedly agreed to pay in excess of $500,000 a day for the continued use of a drill ship in the Gulf of Mex...

MARAD Fails to Meet Ghost Fleet Dismantling Deadline

By The Maritime Executive

April 13, 2006

The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) has admitted that it cannot meet a congressional deadline later this year for removing all junk ships from the James River Reserve Fleet. The cluster of obs...

Turf War Brewing in Boston Harbor

By The Maritime Executive

April 13, 2006

Just beneath the surface of Boston's picturesque and normally tranquil waters is a disagreement which could redraw the relationship between local harbor pilots and their docking master brethren. Th...

We Stand Corrected

By The Maritime Executive

January 24, 2006

We Stand Corrected: An official of the Department of Transportation, contacted Captain Bushy for verification of our story, this is the reply: First, please consider that this is NOT an o...

MMA Training Ship Breaks Down Again

By The Maritime Executive

January 19, 2006

The $38 million ship "Enterprise" broke down for a second time in two voyages, this time leaving 500 cadets stranded in Virginia. The students were sailing to Europe, but the ship had to...

Bow Mariner Investigation Faults Captain

By The Maritime Executive

January 5, 2006

A Coast Guard investigation into the explosion and sinking of the chemical tanker ship "Bow Mariner" off the Virginia coast has disclosed that the captain abandoned ship without sending a...

MARAD Announces New Ship Disposal Contracts

By The Maritime Executive

September 29, 2005

The Maritime Administration announced four new disposal contracts for obsolete ships in its National Defense Reserve Fleet. Two of the ships are in the James River Reserve Fleet in Virginia, a...

Hurricane Rita Has Gulf Coast Nervous

By The Maritime Executive

September 20, 2005

About 700 private contractors who are deployed each day by riverboat and helicopter are working to contain 6.7 million gallons of spilled oil at remote production sites operated by Bass Enterprises...

Katrina Oil Spills May be Worst on Record

By The Maritime Executive

September 20, 2005

The U.S. Coast Guard said that more than 7 million gallons of crude oil had been spilled in at least seven major incidents. The previous worst spill in U.S. waters was the 11 million gallons in Ala...

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