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U.S. Ends Aid for Port of Odessa Customs Reforms

December 30, 2016

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ended funding for a flagship customs reform project in Ukraine's Odessa region, as the government's ambitious plans to tackle bribe-taking at...

A Ship, a Crew and a $7 Billion Fishery

By Sara Mooers

December 30, 2016

The sea and sky are dark. One fades into the other. The bright deck lights of a foreign fishing boat are the only horizon reference. Roughly 70-feet in length, at two miles away, the boat appears as a...

10 Photos Tell the Story of the Exxon Valdez

By The Maritime Executive

December 29, 2016

While oil spills happen almost every day, we are fortunate that relatively few make such large or lasting impressions as the Deepwater Horizon or Exxon Valdez spills. Before 2010, when the United Stat...

Trawler's Capsize Leaves One Dead, One Missing

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2016

On Wednesday, the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency conducted a search for the crew of a capsized trawler off Ramsgate, in the English Channel. Two...

Virtual Reality Aids in Windfarm Installation

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2016

The installation of today’s giant wind turbines at sea requires highly skilled technicians, says Siemens, so the company has developed a virtual reality simulation tool to assist in training. The e...

SOLASAFE, Seegoing Solution? for Mega Container Ships

By The Maritime Executive

December 28, 2016

Immediately prior to Christmas, the multi-award winning team at South Shields based Solar Solve Marine dispatched a big consignment of their Type Approved products to the company’s World Wide Distribu...

Asian Imports of Iran's Oil Double Year-Over-Year

December 28, 2016

Imports of crude oil by Iran's four major buyers in Asia in November more than doubled for a second straight month from a year ago, with purchases by India and South Korea more than four times higher....

Over 100 Years of Pyrotechnic Flares

By Keith Bradford

December 26, 2016

The sight of a red parachute flare launched 300 meters into the sky or the dazzlingly bright red aura of a handheld flare remains the most universally recognized indication of a distress situation at...

Typhoon Nina Claims Two Ro-Ros and a Tanker

By The Maritime Executive

December 26, 2016

Two ro-ros have sunk and a tanker has run aground in adverse weather caused by Typhoon Nina. The ro-ro Starlite Atlantic sank off Batangas Bay in the Philippines on Monday. 15 of the vessel’s crew...

Two Maersk Supply Vessels Sink En Route to Scrapyard

By The Maritime Executive

December 23, 2016

[Brief] Maersk Group’s offshore vessel division said on Thursday that two of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels sank off of Ile de Sein as they were being towed to a scrapyard. The firm...

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