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Construction of Russia's High Arctic Research Platform Commences

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

Russia's Admiralty Yard has officially started construction on the high-Arctic research platform North Pole. The 10,390-ton, 84-meter platform will be the world’s first research station permanently...

Frenchman “Barrels” Across the Atlantic

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

The 71-year-old French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin is sailing across the Atlantic in a three-meter (10-foot) “barrel” that relies on wind and ocean currents for propulsion. Savin set off from El...

China Celebrates Growing Naval Capabilities

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

China has highlighted its anti-piracy efforts over the past 10 years, noting its naval fleets have escorted 3,400 foreign ships, around 51 percent of the total escorted over that time. The first es...

Kalmar to Deliver Straddle Carriers to Maher Terminals

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to deliver a further order of straddle carriers to Maher Terminals LLC for use at their marine container terminal located in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The order...

14 Migrants Caught Attempting to Cross Channel on Stolen Trawler

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

French police have intercepted 14 migrants at Boulogne who were allegedly intending to cross the English Channel on a stolen fishing trawler. The interdiction occurred in port after suspects were spot...

Royal Navy Marks Centenary of the Iolaire Disaster

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2019

On New Year's Day, Royal Navy sailors gathered with relatives and royalty in the port of Stornoway to mark the centenary of one of Scotland’s greatest maritime tragedies. More than 200 sailors who...

Samskip Leads on Emissions-Free Autonomous Container Ship Project

By The Maritime Executive

December 31, 2018

Europe’s largest multimodal operator, Samskip, has been named lead partner in “Seashuttle,” a project seeking to bring emissions-free, autonomous container ships to market that also operate at a profi...

UK Charters Freight Ferries to Ease Brexit-Related Congestion

By The Maritime Executive

December 31, 2018

The UK government has chartered new ro/ro capacity from operators Seaborne Freight, DFDS and Brittany Ferries in order to prepare for shipping bottlenecks stemming from what looks like an increasingly...

Winds of Change

By Paul Bartlett

December 31, 2018

Tugboat operations in the U.S. haven’t changed much in decades. Long-established companies – often family-owned – see little reason to change in a sector that, by and large, works effectively and prov...

Norway's Government Invests $700 Million in Ocean Research Labs

By Gemini News

December 31, 2018

Long before oil was found in the North Sea in 1969, Norway has lived off the ocean and its resources. Now, the Norwegian government has said it is willing to allocate up to NOK 6 billion for the const...

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