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Seafarers Forced to Collect Rainwater to Survive

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) claims to have heard stories that seafarers on board Blumenthal’s Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Lita are being forced to collect rain water with t...

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Memorial Day: Trump Calls for Lasting Peace

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a Proclamation on Prayer for Peace for Memorial Day, 2019. The proclamation states: “Whether on the battlefields of Bunker Hill, on the beaches of Normandy, in t...

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Key Differences Between the ISM Code and Subchapter M

The ISM Code requires shipping companies to implement a safety management system designed to should ensure safe operating practices and should be complied to worldwide – tugs, however, are mostly not...

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Canada’s Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships to Affiliate with Inuit Nunangat

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) will affiliate each of its six new Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) with regions of the Inuit Nunangat. The first such affiliation, between the future HMCS Harry DeWol...

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Maersk Patras Crew Supported After Seafarer Falls Overboard

A port chaplain in Canada has spoken about the grief felt by the family and crew mates of a Sri Lankan Second Officer who fell overboard in the Saint Lawrence River. Fr Andrew Thavam, the Montreal...

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Re-Introducing Steam Power into Commercial Maritime Propulsion

While naval vessels have traditionally used combined-cycle gas-turbine-and-steam propulsion, there is emerging potential to apply the combined-cycle system to raise the overall thermal efficiency of c...

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The Ocean Cleanup is Ready to Try Again

Last September, The Ocean Cleanup deployed System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – marking the first-ever attempt to start cleaning it up. During the campaign, it was found that the system d...

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Damen and Hanson Sign Contract on New Dredger

On May 10, 2019, Damen Shipyards Group and Hanson Aggregates Marine signed a contract for construction of a Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 vessel. The ship will be used to extract aggregates offs...

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Global Freight Demand to Triple by 2050

Global demand for transport will continue to grow dramatically over the next three decades, with global freight demand expected to triple by 2050, according to projections by the International Transpo...

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Russian-China Relations are Warming the Arctic

If the Kremlin meets its goal of transforming the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route into a bustling commercial shipping passage, it may end up having China to thank. Following this month’s fractious meet...