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Norfolk Shipyard Employee Killed in Airport Shooting

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

One of the five victims of Friday's mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport was a 20-year employee of Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the shipbuilder said in a statement on Monday. ...

Fire Kills Five Workers at Gadani Shipbreaking Yard

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

On Monday, five workers were killed and an unknown number remained missing after a fire tore through a scrapped LPG vessel at Gadani, Pakistan. Roughly fifty workers were on board at the time of the f...

USS Mahan Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Boats

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

On Sunday, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mahan fired three warning shots with a .50 caliber machine gun to ward off a group of Iranian attack boats. The incident is the latest and most dramatic confront...

Coast Guard Academy Hosts Tech Training for Scouts

By U.S. Coast Guard News

January 9, 2017

[By John D. Ryan] All dreams have to start somewhere. For some Boy Scouts, a dream or two may have recently started at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. The Academy, in cooperation with the Connect...

Criminal Complaint Filed in Panama Canal Dispute

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

In the latest salvo over Panama Canal construction payments, the contractor consortium for the project faces criminal charges in a complaint filed by the vice president of Panama's National Bar Associ...

Maersk Oil to Lay Off 160 Employees

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

Maersk Oil announced Monday that it would be reorganizing its core Danish Business Unit, consolidating all employees at one location and eliminating 160 positions. The first phase of reorganization wi...

Yangtze River Shipping's Busiest Year Ever

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

2016 was a record year for the volume of cargo transported along China's longest river, the Yangtze. The throughput through the shiplocks of the Three Gorges and Gezhouba both exceeded 130 million...

Timor-Leste and Australia to Negotiate Border

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Australia have issued a joint statement ending an treaty that relates to a temporary maritime border in the Timor Sea and access to oil and gas deposits worth around AU$40...

Lim Writes to E.U. Criticizing Emissions System

By The Maritime Executive

January 9, 2017

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has written to senior European officials expressing his concern that including shipping in the European Union’s emission trading system could undermine efforts to redu...

Suction Technology Designed for Windfarms, Oil and Gas

By Wendy Laursen

January 9, 2017

A new offshore wind farm foundation concept has been designed to suit deepwater installations, particularly in the U.S. Arild Bolsø, a Norwegian engineer, has developed Hydrostatic Structural Conne...

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