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Oil Driving More Gulf Traffic

By The Maritime Executive

February 18, 2014

Shipping traffic is on track to grow in the Gulf of Mexico due to continuing increases in US oil mining output, says PortVision. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the ports of South...

DONG Energy Wants Giant Vestas Turbines For UK Wind Farm

By The Maritime Executive

February 18, 2014

DONG Energy, one of the world's leaders in offshore wind farms, said it wants to use Vestas Wind Systems' giant V164 turbines for the Burbo Bank Extension Offshore Wind Farm off the English west coast...

Seadrill Signs Rig Deals Worth $1.8B in Mexico

By The Maritime Executive

February 18, 2014

Seadrill, the world's biggest offshore driller by market value, will rent out five of its jack-up rigs to Mexican oil firm Pemex with expected revenues of more than $1.8 billion over a six-year period...

Bold Tern Awarded US Wind Installation Contract

By The Maritime Executive

February 17, 2014

Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has secured a contract for the installation of wind turbines at Block Island Wind Farm, one of the first offshore wind farms in the United States. The American developer Deepw...

New Tool Available to Help Track Spilled Oil

By The Maritime Executive

February 17, 2014

A newly developed computer model holds the promise of helping scientists track and predict where oil will go after a spill, sometimes years later. U.S. Geological Survey scientists developed the mode...

Storm Death Toll Could Rise Again

By The Maritime Executive

February 17, 2014

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[Exclusive] Bridge Windows are Just for the Romantics

By Wendy Laursen

February 16, 2014

Many of the criticisms of the industry’s move to the mandatory use of ECDIS relate to the dangers of an over-reliance on an electronic system at the expense of looking out of the bridge windows. Howev...

Castaway Fisherman's Drift Matches Currents and Winds

By The Maritime Executive

February 16, 2014

Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga's improbable 13-month voyage from Mexico westward across the Pacific agrees with simulations of a computer model developed at the University Hawai?i at M?noa's Intern...

Two Killed As More Storms Batter Britain

By The Maritime Executive

February 16, 2014

Two people were killed and 32 people were rescued from a seaside restaurant on Friday as storms and strong winds battered Britain, adding more misery to areas already hit by widespread flooding and tr...

Cruise Passenger Killed After Freak Wave Hits Ship

By The Maritime Executive

February 14, 2014

CNN reports that an elderly passenger aboard the British-based cruise ship Marco Polo died after the ship was hit by a freak wave on its way from the Azores in Portugal to Tilbury, England....

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