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Could Icebergs Solve Cape Town's Water Crisis?

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

Capt. Nick Sloane, the salvage master who worked with the late Capt. Rich Habib to refloat the Costa Concordia, has proposed an audacious solution to Cape Town's severe water shortage: icebergs. I...

Investors Expect Stronger LNG Demand

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

Westwood Global Energy expects global LNG capital expenditure to reach $236 billion over the 2018-2022 period, based on its latest analysis of sanctioned and upcoming projects. This represents a 14 pe...

New AI Technologies to Boost Subsea Operations

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

WFS Technologies, the University of Aberdeen and the Aberdeen-based Oil & Gas Innovation Centre have announced a project to design and build the world’s first ExtremeEdge OLM (On-line Monitoring) syst...

Cargo Liquefaction is Deadliest Cause of Bulker Losses

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

Intercargo, the international association of bulker owners, has released a ten-year review of large bulk carrier casualties, including 53 total losses and over 200 seafarer fatalities. The data co...

Retailers: Tariffs Could Destroy 455,000 American Jobs

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports, coupled with retaliation promised by China, would reduce U.S. gross domestic product by nearly $3 billion and destroy 134...

Global Military Spending: $230 Per Person

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

Total world military expenditure rose to $1,739 billion in 2017, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This represents 2.2 percent of global GDP o...

Ardent, LR and WorleyParsons Launch?Decommissioning Consortium

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

A collaborative supply chain approach to global decommissioning is launched today, offering an end-to-end solution from industry leaders, to reduce the decommissioning burden, risk and cost for operat...

Alibaba Introduces Blockchain System for Food Trade

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

Alibaba and four Australian and New Zealand companies introduced a food-tracing system based on blockchain technology on Friday. The consortium, which includes two New Zealand-based companies dairy...

Putin Wants You to Use GLONASS

By Captain Dana A. Goward USCG (ret)

May 1, 2018

Since March 23, the U.S. Maritime Administration has issued three alerts for reports of GPS disruption in the eastern Mediterranean. During the same period, and in the same area, Russia and its allies...

Six Poisoned by Carbon Monoxide in Log-Loader Fire

By The Maritime Executive

May 1, 2018

[Brief] Authorities in New Zealand are investigating a fire in a cargo hold at the Port of Napier that left six longshoremen with carbon monoxide poisoning. On Monday night, employees from longshor...

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