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Britain Considers Government Fleet to Offset Brexit's Impact

By The Maritime Executive

October 24, 2018

According to reports, UK transport secretary Chris Grayling is making contingency plans for the government to enter the business of cross-channel shipping in the event of a "no-deal Brexit." The p...

India Invests in Russia's Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

By The Strategist

October 24, 2018

[By Stephen Blank] When people discuss Indo-Russian relations, they generally focus on Russia’s arms sales to India. However, India’s energy relations with Moscow also possess considerable and, arg...

Used Ro/Ro Will Become Blue Origin's Rocket Landing Pad

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

Blue Origin, the space flight firm launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will follow SpaceX's lead and recover its first-stage rocket boosters on a vessel at sea. Its future landing platform will be...

China Readies for First Import Expo

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

China will be holding it's first international import expo in Shanghai between November 5 and 10. Announced at the May 2017 Belt and Road Forum in Beijing by President Xi Jinping, the expo is part...

Coast Guard Medevacs Fisherman Struck by Crane Hook

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

On Monday morning, a U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat team out of Chetco River, Oregon evacuated an injured deckhand from the fishing vessel Arctic Storm. The victim, a 64-year-old man, had reportedly...

Malaviya Twenty Sails Two Years After Being Detained

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

The offshore support vessel (OSV) Malaviya Twenty has been sold and has now sailed from Great Yarmouth in the U.K. after being detained in June 2016 over defects and unpaid crew wages. The BBC repo...

Solo Yachtsman Rescued Off Australia

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the search and rescue operation for a French solo yachtsman in the Indian Ocean approximately 1,300 kilometers south west of Perth, West...

Rectangular Iceberg Goes Viral

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

A scientist with NASA's Operation IceBridge survey program recently spotted a rectangular iceberg floating off the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. Its shape likely indicates that it recently...

Canada to Use Interim Icebreakers for Around 20 Years

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

The Canadian Coast Guard has indicated that it will use three Norwegian harsh-environment offshore support vessels (OSVs) purchased in August this year for its icebreaker fleet for the next 15 to 20 y...

AUV Developed to Track and Map Oil Spills

By The Maritime Executive

October 23, 2018

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has demonstrated a new use for its long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) - detecting and tracking oil spills. Working with the U.S....

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