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Rolls-Royce Selected to Repower 'America's Tall Ship'

By The Maritime Executive

July 27, 2016

Rolls-Royce was chosen to power the U.S. Coast Guard’s barque Eagle, also known as ‘America’s Tall Ship’, with a Series 4000 MTU engine. The eighty year old training barque was initially built for the...

ClassNK Makes Breakthrough Finding For Ultra-Large Container Ships

By The Maritime Executive

July 27, 2016

ClassNK has concluded that the minimum required brittle crack arrest toughness for extremely thick brittle crack arrest steel plates of 100mm used in ultra-large container ships is 8,000 N/mm3/2. The...

Tug Operator Blamed for Abu Sayyaf Hijacking

By The Maritime Executive

July 27, 2016

On Tuesday, Malaysia's inspector-general of police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Baka said at a press conference that the most recent Abu Sayyaf tug crew kidnapping off of Sabah was the fault of the tug's operat...

Gas Hydrates Found in Indian Ocean

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2016

The Government of India has discovered large, highly enriched accumulations of natural gas hydrate in the Bay of Bengal. This is the first discovery of its kind in the Indian Ocean that has the potent...

U.S. Supports China-Philippines Bilateral Talks

July 26, 2016

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he supported the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea, following an international court ruling against Beij...

Terminal Commissioning Halted Due to LNG Release

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2016

On Tuesday, the new LNG terminal at Dunkirk, France was put into "safe conditions" due to the presence of liquefied natural gas in its flare stack, causing “LNG projections at the ground level, near t...

South African Oil & Gas Workers to Strike Over Pay

July 26, 2016

More than 15,000 employees in South Africa's petroleum sector are expected to go on strike this week after wage talks with employers failed, Talk Radio 702 reported on Tuesday. The radio said the C...

4,200 Gallons of Oil Spilled Off New Orleans

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2016

[Brief] The U.S. Coast Guard has reported a spill of up to 4,200 gallons of crude from a pipeline near Lake Grand Ecaille, Louisiana on Monday, in Plaquemines Parish. The pipeline, an abandoned fl...

After 12 Years, Court Rules In Favor of Athos I

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2016

After 12 years of litigation, a federal district court has decided in favor of the owners of the tanker Athos I on a claim related to the one of the largest tanker spills in the U.S. since the Exxon V...

For Freighter Crew, An Arrest Means Wages Resume

By The Maritime Executive

July 26, 2016

The crew of a bulker detained and scheduled for auction at Savannah, Georgia have not been able to leave the ship for months – but they say that they may be in a better position than they were before...

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