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Crusieship Keeps to Schedule Despite Logistical Repair Challenge

A bow thruster failure can have profound consequences not only for navigational safety but also the shipowner’s operational expenditure, especially if tugboats are required to berth the vessel. But wh...

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Investigators Review Accidents of 2016

Two reports examining accidents that occurred in 2016 have been released over the past week. The U.K.'s Marine Accident Investigation Board (MAIB) published its 2016 annual report highlighting that...

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Typhoon Blows Ferry into Two Taiwanese Frigates

On Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat swept through Taiwan, the high-speed ferry Natchan Rera was torn from her moorings by high winds and pushed into the Taiwanese Navy frigates Lan-Yang and Huai-Yang. Navy...

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Carbon Emissions and Raft-Based Ship Designs

While many countries presently seek to reduce carbon emissions from the maritime sector, that sectors has been steadily reducing carbon emissions per ton-mile for more than a century. Efforts at furth...

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Houston Pilots Train on Post-Panamax Vessel Simulators at MSRC

Members of the Houston Pilots recently participated in two custom-built simulation courses vital to their Pilotage duties in the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston, the largest landlocked Po...

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High-Tech U.S. Navy Systems Show Progress

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command says that it has finally worked out the stress-loading problems with the new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), the costly electrically-powered catapult for...

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Remembering the Fire on USS Forrestal

Surrounded by water, but with nowhere to go, no way to escape, Sailors on USS Forrestal (CVA 59) watched in horror for one split second as flames began to engulf their ship, July 29, 1967. They jumped...

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Moneymaker

The Relatively Low Startup Costs of a Ro/Ro Terminal Can Pay Big Dividends. For a port authority, there’s a lot to like about a roll-on/roll-off operation. The latest ro/ros can handle almost a...

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Fishing Boat Captain Dives In to Rescue Crewmember

On Monday afternoon, the captain of a capsized fishing vessel jumped out of a boat and back into the water to save a member of his crew.  The small purse seine boat Grayling was fishing for salmon ...

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Exxon Strikes Oil Again Off Guyana

Exxon Mobil said Tuesday that it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total discovery to approximately 500 million barrels oil equivalent.  The resu...