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French Navy Tests Laser Air-Defense System to Defeat Drones

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

Following the lead of the U.S. Navy, the French Navy will soon begin testing a laser-based anti-drone system for point defense, which would give it a new option for keeping its maritime assets safe fr...

Unions Ask UK to Formalize Availability of COVID Vaccine for Seafarers

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

Unions Ask UK to Formalize Availability of COVID Vaccine for Seafarers International organizations are continuing to call on countries with a supply of COVID-19 vaccines to expand their efforts to...

CSSC Lays Keel for Drone-Carrying Autonomous Research Vessel

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

A Chinese research institute has commissioned what may well be the first autonomous oceangoing research vessel with the capability of launching its own drones, and construction is now underway The...

Fincantieri, MSC, and Snam to Develop Hydrogen-Powered Cruise Ship

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

Fincantieri is joining with one of its customers, the cruise division of MSC Group, and European gas and energy infrastructure company Snam to explore the potential for possibly the world’s first hydr...

Port of Savannah Moves 5M TEUs

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

[By: Georgia Ports Authority] For the first time in its history, the Port of Savannah has moved 5.3 million twenty-foot equivalent container units, growing cargo volumes by 20 percent in FY2021, or...

Seadrill Presents to Bankruptcy Court Plan with Creditor Support

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

Seadrill Limited, the financially troubled offshore drilling contractor controlled by John Fredriksen, is making progress on its second trip through US bankruptcy court in the past four years. In a fi...

Project Explores Potential of Ocean Renewable Energy Fuel for Shipping

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

A new research project will investigate the potential of harnessing offshore wind and marine renewable energy to produce zero carbon-hydrogen and ammonia fuels. The University of Strathclyde will lead...

Why the U.S. Navy Needs to Get Back to Prototyping

July 26, 2021

By John Hanley Broad agreement exists that the Department of Defense’s, and thus the Navy’s, acquisition system is bound like Gulliver by Lilliputian processes, resulting in an inability to adapt....

Video: Liftboat Tilts Off China with 61 Rescued and Four Missing

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

Chinese officials are reporting that a jackup liftboat working as a wind turbine installation vessel tilled on July 25 sending crew members into the ocean. A search and rescue operation is underway wi...

Damen Marine Components to Provide Equipment for Navantia

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2021

[By: Damen] Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has contracted Damen Marine Components (DMC) for a series of rudders and steering gear systems. The equipment is for five vessels that Navantia is construct...

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