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Industry Negotiates Seafarer Wage Rise, Dockers' Rights

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

The International Bargaining Forum (IBF), shipping’s largest industrial relations collective, concluded final negotiations for a 2019-2022 IBF Framework Agreement on February 22. An agreement was s...

Training Program Simulates USS Fitzgerald Collision

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

The U.S. Navy has created a training simulation to recreate the chain of errors that led to the collision of the USS Fitzgerald and the merchant ship ACX Crystal off Japan last year. According to U...

Austal USA Christens USNS Burlington

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

The U.S. Navy and Austal USA christened the expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Burlington (EPF 10) on Saturday. USNS Burlington is the tenth of 12 expeditionary fast transport ships that Austa...

China Becomes World?s Second Largest LNG Importer

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

China surpassed South Korea to become the world’s second-largest importer of LNG in 2017, according to data from IHS Markit and official Chinese government statistics. Chinese imports of LNG avera...

Trump Would ?Love? Australia to Join Freedom of Navigation Operations

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would love the Royal Australian Navy to conduct freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea. The comment came as Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Tur...

Captain Removed After Starving Crew Complain

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

The master of the Liberia-flagged chemical tanker Tintomara has been removed from his ship in Gladstone, Australia, after the vessel was detained amid allegations of poor working conditions by the cre...

Blockchain Tested Along China's Southern Transport Corridor

By The Maritime Executive

February 24, 2018

One of Asia's largest shipowners, Pacific International Lines (PIL), along with PSA International and IBM Singapore, has tested a blockchain platform tracking cargo from Chongqing in China to Singapor...

BIMCO Relaunches Ship Benchmarking System

By The Maritime Executive

February 23, 2018

BIMCO has relaunched its ship benchmarking system Shipping KPI after two years of redesign. The system helps shipowners and managers make strategic decisions about their fleet. "The Shipping KPI sy...

COOL PORTS

By Tom Peters

February 23, 2018

Market specialist Lauren McCormick at the port of Freeport, Texas says, “The reefer trade, overall, has gone through a great deal of change” in the last few years. Similar thoughts from industry analy...

HHI Reports Progress on USS Kennedy

By The Maritime Executive

February 23, 2018

Huntington Ingalls' Newport News shipyard announced this week that it has built 70 percent of the hull structures for the next-generation carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79). Like the first-in-class...

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