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LQT Awarded Multiple Mechanical Insulation Projects

By The Maritime Executive

January 4, 2017

LQT Industries, LLC, a service provider and construction company to the energy and industrial markets worldwide, has been awarded five (5) insulation projects in the Gulf of Mexico from major oil and...

World's First Hybrid Trimarans Ordered

By The Maritime Executive

January 3, 2017

Dutch shipbuilder Veka Group is building two hybrid trimarans for transporting personnel and freight to offshore wind farms. The company claims that the vessels will be the first hybrid trimarans in t...

Last Marquette Z-Drive Towboat from Master Marine

By The Maritime Executive

January 3, 2017

Marquette Transportation Co. took delivery of a new 2,000- hp Z-drive towboat from Master Marine, Inc., Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The 78'x 34’x11' St. Matthias was designed by Entech Designs, La. fo...

MoD: 2017 Marks Start of a "New Era" for Royal Navy

By The Maritime Executive

January 3, 2017

UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has announced a New Years' resolution for his ministry: the expenditure of an additional $1.2 billion on equipment, including new patrol ships and early warning sys...

China Starts Weather Forecasts from South China Sea

By The Maritime Executive

January 2, 2017

Starting New Year’s Day, China is releasing weather forecasts from three reefs in the Nansha Islands, the Chinese term for the Spratly Islands, which together with the Paracel Islands form the bulk of...

Saving the Vaquita Porpoise

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2017

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society located six fishing boats acting illegally in the Gulf of California, ending in their arrest by the Mexican Navy in December. The arrests are part of conservation eff...

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...

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