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COSCO Concludes Purchase of Piraeus Port

August 12, 2016

China's COSCO Shipping, owner of the world's fourth largest container fleet, took a 51 percent stake in Greece's largest port on Wednesday. The sale of Piraeus Port had been suspended by the leftis...

What's in Your Fire Main?

By Captain Richard Madden

August 11, 2016

The general alarm rings in the middle of the night. Ten seconds of ear-ringing, nerve-jangling racket designed to raise the crew from a deep slumber. You stagger from your cabin, struggling into the c...

Offshore Wind Conditions in U.S. Might Challenge Developers

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

University of Delaware researchers report in a new study that offshore wind may be more powerful, yet more turbulent than expected in the northeastern United States. The findings could have importa...

Subsea Meets Aquaculture

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

GCE Subsea, NCE Seafood Innovation and Deloitte are running a project to explore the crossover potential between oil and gas and aquaculture, and funding for phase 2 is now secured through a grant fro...

Tensions Set Aside for East China Sea Rescue

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

On Thursday, the Greek-flagged bulker Anangel Courage collided with a Chinese fishing vessel off the disputed Senkaku Islands, sinking the smaller ship. Japan Coast Guard units responded and rescued a...

Pokemon Players Interfere With Ferry Operations

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

Transportation officials from Washington to Cornwall are trying to figure out how to deal with problems created by Pokemon Go players, some of whom are breaching security or obstructing traffic on pas...

RBS Puts Turkish Shipping Loans Up For Sale

August 11, 2016

Royal Bank of Scotland has put its portfolio of Turkish shipping loans up for sale, in the latest move by the state-backed bank to exit this troubled sector and cut overall losses through asset sales,...

50 Tonnes of Fuel Spilled from Grounded Rig

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

The UK government said Thursday that as much as 53 metric tons of diesel fuel were spilled from tanks in the pontoons of the grounded rig Transocean Winner. No signs of pollution have been observe...

Navy Rolls Out "Magic Carpet" for Carrier Landings

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

The Navy is rolling out the carpet for its carrier-based aircraft – the "Magic Carpet," a computer-assisted landing system designed to take some of the risk out of landing on the deck of a moving ship...

Turkish Stream Pipeline's Prospects Revived

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2016

The renewed prospects of the massive Turkish Stream gas transmission project from Russia to Turkey stands to boost the world's subsea pipeline construction market by more than 50 percent, according to...

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