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Somali Pirates Strike for First Time in Two Years

By The Maritime Executive

November 5, 2016

The EU Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) reported Friday that a group of Somali pirates broke a years-long period of quiet in the region with an attack on a chemical tanker. The attack occurred on Oc...

Boat Sinks off Indonesia Killing at Least 18

November 5, 2016

A speedboat carrying 101 people, mostly migrant workers, struck a reef and sank off an Indonesian island on Wednesday, killing 18 people, the country's disaster agency said. The accident occurred a...

FPSO Explosion: Vessel May Have Had Product On Board

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

On Friday, the blaze aboard the partially scrapped FPSO Aces finally burned out. The decommissioned vessel exploded and burned at a beaching scrapyard in Pakistan on November 1. The hull is still t...

Chinese Shipyard "White List" to Shrink

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

Clarksons Shipping Intelligence released a report earlier this week on the state of China's "White List" shipyards. The consultancy found that new requirements for listing are likely to reduce the num...

Vertical Take-Off Drone Helps Aiviq Navigate Ice

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

A different kind of unmanned drone is making its way to working vessels from the Caribbean to the Arctic. Aerovel's Flexrotor has the desirable ability to take off vertically from a small deck area an...

GAIL Cancels "Make In India" LNG Carrier Tender

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

Indian state-owned energy firm GAIL has canceled a build-and-operate tender for up to eleven LNG carriers, three of which would have been built in India. The announcement appears to bring the firm’s l...

Benin Court Drops Politician's Cocaine Charge

November 4, 2016

On Friday, a court in Benin on Friday dropped all charges against prominent politician Sebastien Ajavon who was accused of drug trafficking in connection with a haul of 18 kilogram (40 pounds) of coca...

U.K. Sets Start Date for New Warships

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

Britain's BAE Systems said on Friday it had agreed with the U.K. government that the manufacturing of eight new anti-submarine warships would start in the summer of 2017, adding that a final contract...

Smart Underwater Glue Inspired by Mussels

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2016

Dr Bruce Lee, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Technological University, is using a protein produced by mussels to create a reversible synthetic glue that not only can bond...

The Plight of Australian Offshore Workers

By Peter Bremmer

November 4, 2016

Offshore petroleum exploration in Australia has plummeted. The driver of the decline in offshore exploration is of course the 70 percent decline in the price of oil, and the impact on the offshore ind...

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