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Wave Energy Concept Ready for Ship Propulsion

By The Maritime Executive

August 2, 2017

Wave energy technology is ready to be combined with solar and wind power to create zero emission ships, says José Luis Gutiérrez-García, CEO, ZShips International CCC. ZShips is a Canadian company...

Tesla Battery System Proposed for U.S. Offshore Wind Project

By The Maritime Executive

August 1, 2017

Deepwater Wind has unveiled plans for its newest U.S. offshore wind project: Revolution Wind, a utility-scale offshore wind farm paired with an energy storage system. The company is proposing the 1...

Crusieship Keeps to Schedule Despite Logistical Repair Challenge

By The Maritime Executive

August 1, 2017

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...

Investigators Review Accidents of 2016

By The Maritime Executive

July 31, 2017

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...

Typhoon Blows Ferry into Two Taiwanese Frigates

By The Maritime Executive

July 31, 2017

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...

Carbon Emissions and Raft-Based Ship Designs

By Harry Valentine

July 30, 2017

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...

Houston Pilots Train on Post-Panamax Vessel Simulators at MSRC

By The Maritime Executive

July 29, 2017

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...

High-Tech U.S. Navy Systems Show Progress

By The Maritime Executive

July 28, 2017

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...

Remembering the Fire on USS Forrestal

By Navy Live

July 28, 2017

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...

Moneymaker

By Paul Benecki

July 26, 2017

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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