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Hornbeck Offshore to File for Prepackaged Bankruptcy

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

American OSV operator Hornbeck Offshore Services has announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following the path taken by most of its competitors since the 2015 oil market crash. In a reg...

Laborde Products Named East Coast Distributor for Mitsubishi Marine

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine America has named Laborde Products the new distributor for the East Coast of the United States for Mitsubishi Marine Engines. Laborde Products is currently the distr...

Five Tugs Move Spacecraft Launch Platform Onto Heavy Lift Ship

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

Five Crowley tugboats recently worked together to load the semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform LP Odyssey onto a heavy-lift ship on behalf of Sea Launch/S7 Space. The Crowley tugs Maste...

Op-Ed: Call Someone Who is Alone

By Jason Zuidema

April 3, 2020

That we all crave social contact has become painfully clear in the past weeks – we do not do well in self isolation, especially in quarantine. If there is any upside to the current crisis, it might be...

Carrier CO Relieved of Command After Appeal for COVID-19 Assistance

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly has removed the commanding officer of the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt from command, citing a written appeal for assistance with an outbreak of COVID-19 on...

Why Has Armed Robbery Declined off Venezuela?

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

[By Lydelle Joubert] Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world, with 302 billion barrels of proven reserves reported in 2018. Production has however declined from 3.5 million barrel...

Royal Navy Medical Ship Sails for Caribbean for COVID-19 Response

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

The flat-deck casualty receiving ship RFA Argus has set sail for the Caribbean to support the British Overseas Territories during the upcoming hurricane season and the Covid-19 pandemic. Argus is...

Coronavirus Hits Sustainable Aquaculture

By Dialogue Earth

April 3, 2020

[By Zhang Chun] The damage to China’s aquaculture sector caused by coronavirus could be far-reaching as customers from the US and elsewhere hold off on orders. Companies that specialise in sustaina...

As New York Health System Struggles, USNS Comfort Helps Few Patients

By The Maritime Executive

April 3, 2020

The hospital ship USNS Comfort arrived at a pier in Manhattan early this week in order to provide support for the region's hospitals, which are struggling to accommodate thousands of COVID-19 patients...

Japan Scales Back its Whaling Program

By The Lowy Interpreter

April 3, 2020

[By Daniel Hurst] Even before the coronavirus pandemic began to dominate the news, and as Australia’s bush fires took most of the media oxygen, this past summer was an unusually quiet period in th...

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