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Pirates Kidnap Twelve from Swiss Bulk Carrier

By The Maritime Executive

September 22, 2018

Pirates kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss bulk carrier in Nigerian waters on Saturday. Seven other crew members were on board the Massoel Shipping vessel Glarus at the time. The vessel was car...

Murmansk Port Experiments with Screens to Control Coal Dust

By Anna Kireeva and Charles Digges

September 21, 2018

Officials at the Murmansk Commercial Seaport are taking another shot at reducing the smog of soot that wafts into the city every time port workers load a ship full of coal bound for export to other co...

Helm Operations Joins Volaris Group

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

Leading marine operations software company Helm Operations announced today that it has been acquired by Toronto-based Volaris Group Inc. (“Volaris”). Volaris specializes in strengthening and growing t...

DNV GL Releases Autonomous and Remotely Operated Ship Guidelines

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

As digitalization continues to reshape the maritime industry, the first commercial autonomous vessels are due to launch in the next several years. To help build a safety culture around these new techn...

ACL Christens New Con/Ro 'Atlantic Star'

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

On Friday, Atlantic Container Line (ACL) christened its new G4 vessel, the ATLANTIC STAR, at the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore’s Dundalk Marine Terminal. Commissioner Rebecca Dye of the Feder...

Cadets Study the "Tears of the Arizona"

By U.S. Coast Guard News

September 21, 2018

This summer, First Class Cadets Marshall Grant, Ali Re, Terry Jung and Third Class Cadet Linda Duncan, with the help of the National Park Service, placed four racks with metal test samples in the wate...

"K" Line Adopts All-of-the-Above Strategy for Sulfur Compliance

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

In an annual social responsibility report released Friday, "K" Line president Eizo Murakami said that the Japanese shipping company will take an all-of-the-above strategy to comply with the IMO 2020 f...

UN Program Organizes Crackdown on Containerized Smuggling

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

According to the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime, a recent international operation to crack down on containerized drug shipments netted 5,800 kilos of cocaine in 14 separate seizures around the globe. ...

Ferry Capsizes on Lake Victoria, Killing Over 130 Passengers

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

The death toll from the sinking of a ferry in Tanzania continued to rise Friday, reaching a confirmed total of more than 130 victims. 80 survivors have been rescued, but dozens of people remain missin...

Rand: Navy's Shipboard Posts May Have Higher Risk of Sexual Assault

By The Maritime Executive

September 21, 2018

In 2014, the Rand Corporation launched a comprehensive survey of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the U.S. military. Over the intervening years, it has released additional details from the surv...

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