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5,000 Artifacts from RMS Titanic are Up for Sale

By The Maritime Executive

August 31, 2018

The owner of the largest collection of artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic, Premier Exhibitions, is closing in on the sale of its assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. Premier holds more than...

Photos: Destroyer Intercepts Weapons Shipment off Yemen

By The Maritime Executive

August 31, 2018

Early this week, an American guided-missile destroyer intercepted a small skiff carrying 1,000 AK-47 assault rifles off the coast of Yemen. On Monday, the destroyer USS Jason Dunham encountered a...

Belt and Road: China's Biggest Brand

By The Lowy Interpreter

August 31, 2018

[By Merriden Verrall] Most public discussion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) tends to paint it as a coherent strategy of the Chinese Communist Party. One school argues that this strategy...

Boeing Wins Contract for Navy's Aerial Refueling Drone

By The Maritime Executive

August 31, 2018

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing the contract to develop its stealthy, carrier-based drone tanker, the MQ-25A Stingray. The initial $800 million award is for the construction of four prototype aircraf...

Op-Ed: Time for a U.S. Cyber Force

August 31, 2018

[By Dave Schroeder and Travis Howard] The proposal to create a U.S. Space Force has cyber professionals wondering about the government’s national security priorities. While spaceborne threats are v...

Barge-Ro/Ro Collision Leads to Spill in Port Arthur

By The Maritime Executive

August 31, 2018

On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office launched a response to a fuel spill after an accident involving the towboat Savage Pathfinder and the ro/ro Endurance at Do...

Crew of Carnival Fascination Rescues Two Fishermen

By The Maritime Executive

August 30, 2018

At approximately 10pm on Wednesday, Carnival Fascination responded to a distress signal from a small fishing boat that was 25 nautical miles from Barbados. The boat had run out of fuel and was adrift....

Autonomous Survey Vessel Development Continues

By The Maritime Executive

August 30, 2018

The use of autonomous vessels in marine surveys is increasing, and, most recently, U.K.-based survey company Bibby HydroMap completed testing of DriX, an autonomous unmanned survey vessel, this week....

Dock Damage Adds to Venezuela's Oil Export Troubles

By The Maritime Executive

August 30, 2018

An allision at Venezuela's main oil export port may have serious implications for PDVSA's contractual obligations with foreign oil consumers, including Russian oil major Rosneft, which has agreed to a...

U.S. Accuses Russia of Harassing Ukrainian Shipping

By The Maritime Executive

August 30, 2018

On Wednesday, the Trump administration accused Russia of harassing merchant shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait, and it called for a halt to the interference. The narrow strait is a ke...

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