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US Awards $951M in Contract Modifications for Polar Cutter Program

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2025

The troubled U.S. effort to build a new generation of Polar Security Cutters received an important boost with the U.S. Coast Guard awarding a $951.6 million contract modification to Bollinger Shipya...

Op-Ed: Three GHG Meetings in London Can Transform Shipping

By Delaine McCullough

March 26, 2025

The International shipping sector provides an outsized and growing contribution to the climate crisis, already causing around 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - shipping’s annual emiss...

IMO Asks Nations to Stop Jamming GPS, Citing Risk to Shipping

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2025

Three UN agencies have called for action to halt jamming and spoofing operations, which are most often associated with nation-state activity in the Baltic, Black Sea, Strait of Hormuz, South Chin...

Op-Ed: U.S. Sealift Forces Are Unprepared for a Fight in the Pacific

By The Strategist

March 26, 2025

[By Andrew Rolander] The US Transportation Command’s Military Sealift Command (MSC), the subordinate organization responsible for strategic sealift, is unprepared for the high-intensity fighti...

Taiwan Develops Stealthy Attack Drone Boat

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

Inspired by Ukraine's success with unmanned drone boats in the Black Sea, Taiwan has built an unmanned attack boat of its own, with modifications. The new "Endeavor Manta" drone is a fiberglass-hu...

U.S. Senate Confirms Navy Secretary John Phelan

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of President Donald Trump's nominee for the next Secretary of the Navy, the financier, political donor and art collector John Phelan. He was confirme...

Conservationists Sue BOEM to Restore OSV Speed Limits for Rice's Whale

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

A group of U.S. environmental NGOs are suing the Trump administration over the rollback of guidance that was intended to protect the endangered Rice's whale, an ultra-rare species found only in t...

White House Nominates Navy Submariner to Run Maritime Administration

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

Former submarine officer Capt. Brent Sadler (USN) has been nominated to run the U.S. Maritime Administration, the unit of the Department of Transportation responsible for the Ready Reserve, the M...

HMM Joins Pioneers with its First Methanol-Fueled Containership

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

The ranks of container shipping companies employing methanol-fueled vessels continue to grow with HMM becoming the latest among the early adopters of the fuel. DNV calculates there are just 26 metha...

Shipping Company Blames “Captain’s Carelessness” as LPG Carrier Strands

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2025

Residents in the area around Pattaya City, Thailand panicked when they saw a gas tanker stranded on the shoreline at daybreak. There were rumors that the vessel was releasing gas, but it was quickly...

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