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Hapag-Lloyd Launches Fleet-Wide Upgrades for Fuel Efficiency

By The Maritime Executive

August 22, 2022

Hapag-Lloyd is commencing a five-year, fleet-wide upgrade program designed to make its existing vessels more efficient. The company is planning a series of steps that they said will be applied to more...

B.C. Ferries Struggles to Fill Staff Shortages

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

The effects of the pandemic continue to propagate through the maritime workforce in the form of early retirements, recruitment challenges and further rounds of mild infection. As a prime example, B.C....

DP World Sees Profits Soar With Rising Demand for Container Storage

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

In the last few weeks, shipping and logistics companies have mesmerized the world with record first-half profits. DP World, one of the largest port operators worldwide, is the latest addition to the l...

CMA CGM Installs Whale Monitoring Buoys off U.S. East Coast

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

Last week, CMA CGM and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) deployed an acoustic monitoring buoy about 39 miles off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. The buoy, named as “CMA CGM Sea Guardian-S...

Why German Corporations are Nearshoring in Morocco

By Brian Gicheru Kinyua

August 21, 2022

There is now a consensus among companies on the need to build resilient supply chains, as the last two years have exposed glaring fault lines in the global logistics sector. The result has been the em...

U.S. Navy Takes Delivery of First Aegis-Integrated Tactical Laser

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of its first operational HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) laser system. The Lockheed-designed laser was installed aboard a S...

Dubai Court Fines Boxship Crew for Explosion of a Hazardous Container

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

In a new example of criminalization of mariner liability, a court in Dubai has issued a suspended jail sentence and a $28,000 fine to five crewmembers of the container feeder Ocean Trader, which suffe...

U.S. Navy Reports a Death Aboard the Cruiser USS Leyte Gulf

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

The U.S. Navy has confirmed the death of a sailor aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, which just deployed with the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group earlier this month. The se...

How the Felixstowe Strike Will Affect UK Supply Chains

By Edward Sweeney

August 21, 2022

The ability to move products from A to B has been affected by COVID and Brexit-related bottlenecks in recent years, as well as rising concerns about the environmental impact of how companies supply ou...

Video: Chemical Tanker Collides With Freighter Off Japan

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2022

In the early hours of Saturday morning, a chemical tanker collided with a small freighter just off the coast of Kushimoto, a small port on the south coast of Honshu, Japan. At about 0200 hours on...

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