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Wallenius and Swedish Orient Line Launch WALLENIUS SOL

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

WALLENIUS SOL is a new shipping company that will transport forestry products and other goods in a network covering the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Founders are the two shipping...

ABS Tests Artificial Intelligence for Corrosion Detection

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

ABS, Google Cloud and SoftServe completed a pilot project applying artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect levels of corrosion and coating breakdown on ships and offshore structures. The proj...

First LNG Ship-to-Ship Bunkering for “Wes Amelie” And “Kairos”

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

On April 21th, 2019, the world’s first container ship retrofitted with a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) engine, the “Wes Amelie”, received LNG through a ship-to-ship operation from the world’s largest LN...

Report: White House Considering Jones Act Waiver for LNG

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

President Donald Trump and top White House aides are discussing the possibility of issuing a Jones Act waiver for coastwise transportation of LNG, according to Bloomberg. The president is said to favo...

VT Halter Wins Contract for New U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy have awarded the contract for the Coast Guard's next-generation heavy icebreaker to VT Halter Marine. The initial award is worth about $750 million, and it c...

The Emerging Hypersonic Threat

April 23, 2019

[By Jon Isaac] In January 2019, Chinese Communist Party leaders announced that the newest iteration of their DF-17 missile system was being designed to overwhelm and sink U.S. aircraft carriers and...

Pollution Abatement Concludes for the Wreck of the Grande America

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

Deep ocean search company Ocean Infinity announced Tuesday that it has finished its work on the wreck of the con/ro Grande America, which caught fire and sank in the Bay of Biscay on March 12. Usi...

Two Civilian Vessels Join Search for Downed Japanese F-35

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

The U.S. government has chartered a privately-owned deep-sea search vessel to help locate the Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A fighter jet that went down April 9 during a night exercise off Honshu....

Pirates Attack Two Fishing Boats off Somalia

By The Maritime Executive

April 23, 2019

On Sunday, two fishing vessels were attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The attempted boardings were both thwarted, but security officials said that they represent a reminder that antipiracy...

Martin Kits van Heyningen, Chairman, President & CEO, KVH Industries

By Jack O'Connell

April 23, 2019

Martin Kits van Heyningen, Chairman, President & CEO, KVH Industries Innovation and a start-up mentality are what keep KVH – the operator of the global mini-VSAT Broadband maritime network – ahead...

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