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AfCFTA Prosperity Requires More African Seafarers, Ships and Ports

By Brian Gicheru Kinyua, Timothy Walker and Denys Reva

July 21, 2021

Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement started on 1 January 2021, a significant milestone for Africa’s political and economic aspirations. The deal created an enormou...

Oceana Finds Vessels Exceeding Speed Limits Endangered Right Whales

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

The international advocacy organization for ocean conservation Oceana released a new report again showing that most vessels are exceeding speed limits in areas designed to protect critically endangere...

U.S. Navy's Top Officer Admits "Painful" Teething Issues With USS Ford

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

In an interview given in advance of the annual Sea-Air-Space symposium, the U.S. Navy's top officer has provided an unusually frank assessment of the limitations of the service's oldest and newest pla...

Mitsui E&S Delivers Last Commercial Ship Ending Shipbuilding Business

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co. announced the delivery of a new 66,000 dwt bulk carrier. The twenty-third vessel in its class, it was significant because it is the last merchant vessel to be built by the...

Bar Harbor Residents Tell Town Council to Limit Cruise Ships

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

Bar Harbor, Maine is moving to become the latest popular tourist destination to impose further restrictions on cruise ship visits. The move comes after town residents voiced their concerns over the ov...

Global Trade Roars Back, But Stresses Remain

By The Strategist

July 21, 2021

[By David Uren] Globalization is back with such a vengeance that the shipping lines are struggling to keep up, sending freight rates to astronomic levels. The onset of the pandemic early last ye...

Bouchard Transportation’s Tugs and Barges Auctioned Off

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

The auction of the assets of Bouchard Transportation Company proceeded on July 18 under the process approved by the bankruptcy court. Before the auction, the reorganization officer for the oil barge t...

Breaking the “Deadlock” of Decarbonization Starts with Small Steps

By Karrie Trauth

July 21, 2021

The shipping and maritime business represents the world’s most effective and efficient method of trade, carrying an estimated 90 percent of the worlds cargo leading to a highly intertwined world econo...

Flood of Import Containers Disrupts U.S. Intermodal Rail

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

The flood of import cargo arriving at the main U.S. gateway ports has started to overwhelm the intermodal rail network, which carries a substantial share of the import volume to inland markets in the...

GTT Selected to Design Five Ammonia Fuel Compatible Vessels

By The Maritime Executive

July 21, 2021

[By: GTT] GTT has received, at the end of June, an order from its partner, the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the fuel tank design of five very large LNG-fuelled container vesse...

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