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Greece Sells Thessaloniki Port Concession

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2017

Greece's asset liquidation agency has announced the sale of its 67 percent stake in Thessaloniki Port to Deutche Invest Equity Partners, Belterra Investments and CMA CGM's ports division, Terminal Lin...

Port of Seattle Selects New Executive Director

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2017

On Tuesday, the Port of Seattle selected Rear Adm. Stephen Metruck (USCG, ret'd) as its new executive director. In a unanimous vote, the port's five commissioners picked the former Coast Guard CFO to...

Ferry Goes Aground Near New York Harbor

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2017

At 1800 hours Wednesday evening, a passenger vessel under contract to NYC Ferry ran aground on a sandbar in Coney Island Channel. The grounding left 24 passengers stranded for hours in sub-freezing te...

Assessing Prospects for a Port of Quebec Container Terminal

By Harry Valentine

December 28, 2017

Authorities at Quebec City, Canada, have recently announced the intention to develop an intermodal container port and transshipment terminal. Like Port of Newark, Port of Quebec can offer 15-meter (49...

Port Automation and Cyber Risk

By Philipp Martin Dingeldey

December 27, 2017

To stay ahead of competing ports and technological developments, automation has been heralded as inevitable. Major transshipment hubs and aspiring ports bet their future on automation, which raises th...

Integrated Man Overboard SAR Systems Needed

By Abdelkhalik Kamal Eldin Soliman Selmy

December 27, 2017

There are many risks relating to man overboard (MOB) accidents including drowning, hypothermia, which can lead to death within 20 minutes in cold water, and the loss of the person as a result of prope...

New Arctic Well Spudded

By The Maritime Executive

December 27, 2017

Oil exploration in U.S. Arctic waters got underway this week with the spudding of a new oil well from the man-made Spy Island in the Beaufort Sea. Eni began drilling the new well off the north coast o...

2017: A Year of Growing Confidence for LNG Bunkering

By Vincent Lagarrigue

December 27, 2017

Looking back on 2017, one of the defining themes of the year has been the rise of LNG as a marine fuel. In 2018, we anticipate that a major challenge will be how suppliers of transfer solutions me...

The Names Behind the News

By The Maritime Executive

December 27, 2017

The Maritime Executive team, led by Editor-in-Chief Tony Munoz, looks forward to a bright 2018 and thanks our valued newsletter readers and contributors, with a selection of the best editorials from 2...

Dolphins Rescued from Indonesian Circus Trade

By The Maritime Executive

December 27, 2017

Animal welfare organization Dolphin Project has rescued three dolphins that were destined for an Indonesian circus. On December 15, 2017, Dolphin Project received reports that the recently-caught w...

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