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[Update] Ships Waiting on Houston Channel Cleanup

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2014

The backlog of ships waiting to sail in or out of the Houston Ship Channel fell on Wednesday as crews cleaned a fuel oil spill in Galveston Bay, the head of the Houston Pilots said. The U.S. Coast Gu...

Carnival Ship Picks Up 41 Cuban Migrants

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2014

Forty-one Cuban migrants were rescued by the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship in the Florida Straits, Tuesday evening. Crewmembers aboard the 855-foot Carnival Ecstasy located the grossly overloaded vess...

NDM Secures Contract with Tersan Shipyard

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2014

NDM proudly announced that it has been selected as the supplier of deck machinery to a newbuilding at Tersan Shipyard. The vessel is a OCV of ST-259 Arctic design for Volstad Shipping. Its main dimen...

[Update] Channel Slowly Reopens; Vessel Queue Tops 100

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

The Houston Ship Channel, a critical waterway for oil shipments, gradually reopened on Tuesday after a four-day closure that forced at least one big refiner to cut output and caused a backlog of more...

Chinese Clash with Police, Slam Malaysia Over Lost Plane

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

Chinese PLAAF Ilyushin Il-76 arriving at Perth Airport on March 21 after searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Dozens of angry relatives of passengers on a lost Malaysian jetliner clashed with...

Fednav Pioneers Drone Use in Polar Shipping

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

Fednav recently became the first shipping company to employ drones, or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), for ice reconnaissance on a commercial voyage. The Umiak I, one of Fednav’s most powerful icebreaker...

Cruise Price Cuts, Higher Ad Spending to Hurt Carnival

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

Carnival Corp, the world's largest cruise operator, forecast a full-year profit below analysts' estimates as it cuts prices and spends more on advertising to attract customers after onboard mishaps hu...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Disrupts Heart Development in Tunas

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

Crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster causes severe defects in the developing hearts of bluefin and yellowfin tunas, according to a new study by a team of NOAA and academic scientists. T...

Siemens Doubles Investment for UK Wind Turbine Factory

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

German engineering group Siemens said it had doubled the money it plans to invest in building an offshore wind turbine factory and an installation facility in Britain to 160 million pounds ($263.8 mil...

[Update] USCG Eyes Opening Houston Channel Following Collision, Spill

By The Maritime Executive

March 24, 2014

U.S. authorities expected a "tapered" re-opening of the Houston Ship Channel, but gave no timeline on Monday of when vessels could start moving again after an oil barge spill shut the waterway for a t...

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