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Pillarstone to Snap Up Europe Shipping Loans

November 3, 2016

Pillarstone, the platform set up by U.S. private equity firm KKR to buy non-core bank assets in Europe, looks set to take on more shipping loans after appointing an industry veteran to run its shippin...

Sea Shepherd Turtle Movie Now Available

By The Maritime Executive

November 3, 2016

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s sea turtle documentary Why Just One? is now available for viewing. The feature documentary, about the battle to save sea turtles in Costa Rica, can be downloaded...

Indonesia Detains Crewman of Crashed Boat

November 3, 2016

On Thursday, Indonesian police detained one of the crew of a packed speedboat that crashed off an Indonesian island a day earlier, while a search-and-rescue team scoured the waters for dozens of missi...

France to Defend STX Interests

November 3, 2016

The French government has told South Korea it will oppose any solution for shipbuilder STX France that is against national industrial interests, Industry Minister Christophe Sirugue said on Thursday o...

Ocean Alliance Announces Day One Network

By The Maritime Executive

November 3, 2016

The members of the new Ocean Alliance, CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen Line and Orient Overseas Container Line, have announced their proposed “day one” trading network. The Alliance is th...

Russian Sealift Carrying Hired Soldiers to Syria

November 3, 2016

The start of this year proved deadly for one unit of about 100 Russian fighters supporting President Bashar al-Assad's troops in northern Syria. On Feb. 3, 38-year-old Maxim Kolganov was killed in...

Jaenichen Clarifies USMMA Sea Year Decision

By Paul Benecki

November 3, 2016

Last week, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) released a statement to alumni announcing that the academy’s longstanding “Sea Year” merchant vessel-based training program for midshipmen would “st...

USMMA Suspends Shipboard Training Program

By Paul Benecki

November 3, 2016

The United States Merchant Marine Academy released a statement Thursday indicating that the academy is suspending training on working merchant vessels until “it is assured that [Midshipmen’s] training...

USMMA Lifts Sea Year Stand Down for Federal Vessels

By Paul Benecki

November 3, 2016

On Friday, the United States Merchant Marine Academy announced that it would partially lift last month’s suspension of its core Sea Year training program for undergraduate midshipmen, allowing those s...

Renewing USMMA's Sea Year Program

By Paul Benecki

November 3, 2016

In early 2014, a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy midshipman assigned to a naval auxiliary vessel said that she had been “subject to repeated, unwanted touching” by a civilian crewmate during a port call....

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