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India Moves to Protect Seafarers Working Overseas

The Indian government has tightened the recruitment process for seafarers taking jobs overseas to protect them from unscrupulous agents and shipowners. The move comes after recent reports of around...

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Virginia Opts Out of Offshore Lease Program

The Governor in the U.S. state of Virginia has changed his mind about offshore drilling. Terry McAuliffe reverted from his previous support for offshore oil drilling last week, saying that he now w...

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U.S. Navy Captain Pleades Guilty in "Fat Leonard" Case

U.S. Navy Captain Jesus Vasquez Cantu admitted in federal court on Friday that he accepted bribes in the form of parties and prostitutes while sneaking proprietary information to foreign defense contr...

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The End of Container Shipping: a Thought Experiment

What could happen in the future that would either completely wipe out the shipping industry as we know it… or massively disrupt it? It’s an existential question for our company as a service provide...

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South Korean Yards Top Order Backlog

South Korea's three major shipyards, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries, have retained their top global ranking in terms of order backlog,...

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U.S. Navy Releases Initial Report on Fitzgerald Collision

On Thursday, the U.S. Navy released a preliminary report into the events following the collision of the container ship ACX Crystal with the destroyer USS Fitzgerald. The report is a "line of duty" det...

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The PLA Navy in the Baltic: A View from Kiel

[By Sebastian Bruns and Sarah Kirchberger] On 19 July 2017, after a long transit through the Indian Ocean and around the European continent, a three-ship People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task g...

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TOTE Expands Into Hawaii Trade

TOTE Maritime increased its investment in the U.S. Jones Act trade on Friday, announcing an order for four new containerships from Philly Shipyard. The ships will be used to compete with Matson and Pa...

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China Raises Temperature Again in Spratly Islands

[By Euan Graham] Something significant is happening in the South China Sea. Philippine media has reported that, over the past week, a flotilla of Chinese fishing vessels, accompanied by PLA Navy fr...

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Tanker Market: Third Quarter Earnings have Floundered

The third quarter 2017 tanker market is proving vexatious for owners still struggling with the effects of fleet oversupply. But in its latest monthly forecast, Maritime Strategies International observ...