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AWO Qualifies ABS for Towing Safety Management Audits

By The Maritime Executive

October 26, 2016

ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the marine and offshore industries, has been approved by the American Waterways Operators (AWO) to carry out audits of its Responsib...

Spain Offers to Refuel Russian Naval Strike Group

By The Maritime Executive

October 26, 2016

Spain faces criticism from its EU neighbors and from NATO over its willingness to allow a Russian naval strike group to refuel at the North African port of Ceuta, a Spanish-controlled enclave on the c...

Emergency Escape Vessels For Rent in New York

By The Maritime Executive

October 25, 2016

A newly formed chartering company has an interesting proposition for the security-minded executive: a lease on your own personal getaway boat, berthed in downtown Manhattan just in case the island sho...

Suez Canal Proposes Advance Payment Discounts

October 25, 2016

Egypt is in talks with global shipping firms to change the way it charges vessels to pass through the Suez Canal, offering discounts for advance payments as it seeks to raise much-needed hard currenc...

Duterte Threatens to End U.S. Defense Alliance

October 25, 2016

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out anew at the United States on Tuesday and said it could forget a bilateral defense deal if he stayed in power long enough, in the latest jarring statemen...

Libyan Forces May Have Caused 30 Migrant Deaths

October 25, 2016

A German-based humanitarian group said on Tuesday up to 30 African migrants may have died because of what it called "aggressive" Libyan interference in a rescue operation outside Libyan territorial wa...

Response Continues for B.C. Tug Spill

By The Maritime Executive

October 25, 2016

Salvage response efforts continue for the sunken ATB tug Nathan E. Stewart, which grounded and went down near Bella Bella, B.C. on October 13. The Stewart sank with about 60,000 gallons of diesel o...

The Arctic Council Should Expand its Role

October 25, 2016

[By Ian Birdwell] Founded in 1996 as a regional forum and tool to coordinate scientific research by nations within the Arctic Circle, the Arctic Council has grown in prominence over the past six ye...

Self-Driving Navy Vessel Tows Parasail

By The Maritime Executive

October 25, 2016

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has found a new use for its unmanned semi-autonomous vessel, known as Sea Hunter (or ACTUV, its project acronym). The agency says that Sea Hunter turn...

ICS, IACS, Shipbuilders Meet in Japan

By The Maritime Executive

October 25, 2016

Earlier this month, some 200 representatives of shipbuilders, shipowners and class societies gathered in Tokyo for the annual "Tripartite Meeting" on issues of joint concern, including the new Goal Ba...

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