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MSC Reroutes World Cruise to Avoid Red Sea

By The Maritime Executive

January 5, 2024

MSC Cruises celebrated the start of the company’s epic yearly world cruise today but announced to passengers that the ship will be having to make a big detour due to the security problems in the Red...

Maersk Warns of Disruptions as Vessels Reroute for the Foreseeable Future

By The Maritime Executive

January 5, 2024

Maersk is warning customers to be prepared for complications due to the ongoing security issues in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and the potential for “significant disruption to the global network...

Elite Indian Navy Team Secures Hijacked Bulker

By The Maritime Executive

January 5, 2024

The Indian Navy intercepted the bulk carrier Lila Norfolk early on Friday, January 5, and an elite team of marine commandos boarded the vessel to “sanitize” the ship. The latest reports are that...

Port of Virginia Switches to 100% Clean Power

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2024

On New Years' Day, the Port of Virginia became the first seaport on the U.S. East Coast (and one of a handful in the world) to run all of its operations on 100 percent clean power. The port had planne...

The Third Revolution

By Sean Hogue

January 4, 2024

In the beginning, there was sail. Giant wooden ships plied their trade along the trade winds. This began around 3,000 BC and continued happily through the mid-1700s when the Industrial Revolut...

ECSA Appoints its First Female President

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2024

The European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), the representative voice for EU shipping, has appointed Karin Orsel as its first-ever female president. Orsel takes the helm at a pivotal moment...

Former DSME Employee Allegedly Leaked Submarine Secrets to Taiwan

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2024

South Korea has charged two people including a former employee of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for their involvement in leaking details and blueprints of its submarines to Taiw...

Study: 75% of the World's Fishing Activity is Invisible on AIS

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2024

The "dark fleet" of vessels operating off AIS is much bigger than usually conceived, particularly in some regions, according to a new study led by Global Fishing Watch. AIS was intended as a safety...

The Van Oord Family Business: From Wickerwork to Global Player

By Cornelis Kamminga

January 4, 2024

Govert van Oord (1840-1912) was a wickerworker, like his father Jan. In the Dutch Biesbosch, willow branches were sawn and bundled into cradles. Other companies wove sinkers from those cradles fo...

Suez Canal Volume Down by a Quarter in Second Half of December

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2024

The International Monitory Fund’s PortWatch system designed to explore how global supply chains are exposed to present and future disruptions, is labeling the Suez Canal as a “notable chokepoint”...

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