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Shipoil Picks Inatech to Digitize Trading and Supply Operations

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

The Greece-based global bunker fuel and marine lubricants trader Shipoil has appointed Inatech, a unit of Glencore, to digitalize its trading and supply operations as part of a strategy to prevent new...

Ignoring China, Vietnam Extends Offshore Drilling Campaign

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

The Vietnamese government has announced an extension of the operating schedule for the Rosneft-chartered MODU Hakuryu-5, which is conducting an exploration campaign in Vietnamese waters despite China'...

Bourbon Files for Reorganization

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

Blue-chip offshore vessel operator Bourbon Corporation announced Thursday that it has filed for bankruptcy proceedings (redressement judiciaire) with a court in Marseilles. The move follows a dema...

Should China Build the World’s Longest Undersea Tunnel?

By Dialogue Earth

July 26, 2019

[By Zhang Chun] In the waters off Penglai, Shandong province, 151 islands strung out in a line mark the boundary between the Bohai and Yellow seas. The Changshan archipelago, as it is known, is an...

Stena: Seized Tanker Was in Full Compliance with Regulations

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

In a statement Friday, shipowner Stena Bulk said that the tanker Stena Impero was operating in full compliance with maritime regulations when she was seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps la...

Researchers Uncover Intact Renaissance-Era Shipwreck

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

An international team of scientists has discovered the remains of a pristine Renaissance-era shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. The researchers believe that it is an unusually important discovery, as it is...

Trailblazers: The Five African-American SPARs of World War II

By Denise Krepp

July 26, 2019

During World War II, over 11,000 women served in the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve. Collectively, they were known as SPARs. Five of them were African-American - Dorothy Winifred Byrd, Julia Watson...

The USCG's Environmental Mission 30 Years After Exxon Valdez

By William Thiesen

July 26, 2019

Thirty years ago on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez steamed into a reef at 12 knots, opening eight of her 10 oil storage tanks to the pristine waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The...

Carlyle Group Buys Shipbuilder Vigor Industrial

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2019

Private equity companies The Carlyle Group and Stellex Capital Management have agreed to merge two American shipyard firms, Oregon-based Vigor Industrial and Norfolk-based MHI Holdings. The combined c...

SafeMetrix is Developing AI-Based Assessment for Seafarer Soft Skills

July 26, 2019

SafeMetrix, a product line of Safebridge, has announced a new ground-breaking project aimed at developing an entirely new approach to assessing soft skills using natural language processing (NLP). Thi...

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