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Polymers Made to Work Hard

Brown water workboats and blue water ships have a common need for durable, non-metallic bearings, bushes and wear plates. Vesconite manufactures low-friction, long-lived polymers that are ideal for a...

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New SCF Icebreaking Standby Vessel Named Fedor Ushakov

On October 11, 2017, the naming ceremony took place for Fedor Ushakov, a new multifunctional icebreaking standby vessel (IBSBV) built to order for PAO Sovcomflot (“SCF Group”), to serve the Sakhalin-2...

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Downers

A “downer” is an animal who can't, or refuses to, stand up. One of the reasons this can happen during a live export voyage is that the animal slips over. With hind legs splayed, they are vulnerable to...

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BAE to Lay Off 375 Workers in Maritime Services Sector

UK-based defense contractor BAE Systems announced Tuesday that it intends to cut 375 jobs from its maritime services division, most of them from its Portsmouth Naval Base unit. Staff at the base repor...

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Leading Japanese Steelmaker Reports Falsified QC Data

Leading Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel (Kobelco) has admitted that it has discovered falsified data related to the quality of commodities like rolled aluminum, copper and powdered iron ore, pushing hu...

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DNV GL Brings CFD to Every Desktop

DNV GL’s new “Virtual Trial” application allows yards and owners to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to analyze, compare and benchmark the fuel efficiency of hull design variants at f...

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Challenges to Seafarers' Welfare in Caribbean Ports

Even as the Caribbean islands and Florida were recovering from Hurricane Irma this summer, Maria came roaring through the region. With numerous fatalities and crippling damage to island infrastructure...

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Hydrogen-Powered Truck Begins Work at LA-Long Beach

Toyota has begun a pilot project to run a hydrogen-fueled semi truck on short haul routes between terminals and warehouses at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. With its first testing miles comp...

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U.S. Navy Replaces USS McCain's Commanding Officer

The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet has dismissed the commanding officer and executive officer of the damaged destroyer USS John S. McCain. Both men were relieved due to a loss of confidence in their abilit...

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Can the U.S. Fix Its Failing Infrastructure?

It’s no secret that America’s infrastructure is crumbling. Just look around you. Everywhere there are potholed streets, congested highways, trains going off the tracks, bridges collapsing, dams and lo...