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Cement Carrier Grounds off Iceland

By The Maritime Executive

November 5, 2018

The cement carrier Fjordvik went aground on a breakwater at the entrance to a harbor at Keflavik, Iceland shortly after midnight on Friday. Her 14 crewmembers and her pilot were safely lifted off the...

China's “Trail-Blazing” Import Expo Opens

By The Maritime Executive

November 5, 2018

China is holding it's first international import expo in Shanghai between November 5 and 10, and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the event calling it a "trail-blazing" move in the history of inter...

First Reactor Started on Russia’s Floating Nuclear Plant

By Charles Digges

November 5, 2018

Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, long a controversial dream of the country’s atomic energy industry, has finally become an actual nuclear power plant after its first reactor achieved a sustained...

Position Monitoring Inadequate Prior to Celtic Spirit Collision

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2018

The U.K.'s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its report on the cargo vessel Celtic Spirit anchor dragging incident citing inadequate position monitoring. The vessel dragged...

The Rise of Crowdfunding for Marine Energy

By David Hume

November 4, 2018

Over the last three years marine energy developers have accumulated over $23 million from more than 7,400 people through crowdfunding. This year alone saw a 62 percent increase over the previous year...

Jungle Shipyard: Lofting Floor Complete on Schooner

By The Maritime Executive

November 3, 2018

Sailcargo Inc. is building Ceiba, a 148-foot, three-masted, square-topsail schooner in Costa Rica, and the project has reached a milestone with the completion of the lofting floor. The vessel will...

Anti-Drug Patrol Turns into Rescue off Central America

By The Maritime Executive

November 2, 2018

Last month, a Coast Guard HC-130 aircrew based out of North Carolina responded to boaters in distress off the coast of Central America, thousands of miles from their home airfield. While conductin...

Slavery Still Persists in Thai Fisheries

By The Lowy Interpreter

November 2, 2018

[By JJ Rose] About an hour south of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, down a dusty, broken-edged road, dotted with grimy stores and street stalls, with the incessant buzz of motorbikes, stands a desolat...

Royal Caribbean to Offset Emissions with U.S. Windfarm

By The Maritime Executive

November 1, 2018

Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement with Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider in the U.S., to offset up to 12 percent of its emissions via Southern Power's 200MW Reading Wind Facili...

ClassNK Releases “PrimeShip-GREEN/ProSTA ver.ITTC”

By The Maritime Executive

November 1, 2018

Leading classification society ClassNK released “PrimeShip-GREEN/ProSTA ver.ITTC” on 1st November 2018. It is the world’s first software that calculates and analyzes a ship’s speed for Energy Efficien...

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