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Canadian Tug Losses Increasing

By The Maritime Executive

March 17, 2016

The Canadian west coast is very dependent on tug and barge transportation, and it has witnessed a significant increase in tug boat losses in 2015. Proportionately, year on year, 2015 is remarkably...

Rally to Protest Gulf of Mexico Offshore Leases

By The Maritime Executive

March 16, 2016

Hundreds of U.S. Gulf Coast residents are joining forces with local and national environmental and social justice groups to attend a rally in opposition to the federal government’s planned offshore le...

Global Emissions and Economic Growth Decoupled

By The Maritime Executive

March 16, 2016

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, the largest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, stayed flat for the second year in a row, according to analysis of preliminary data for 2015 re...

Administration Withdraws Atlantic Offshore Proposal

By The Maritime Executive

March 15, 2016

On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that it was withdrawing a proposal to lease blocks of the United States' Atlantic outer continental shelf for offshore oil and gas exploration. In a s...

Aker and Transocean Announce New Layoffs

By The Maritime Executive

March 15, 2016

Offshore services firm Aker and rig operator Transocean announced new rounds of layoffs on Monday and Tuesday, adding to an extensive list of job losses in offshore oil. On March 15, Switzerland-ba...

German Shipping Companies Fined $1.5 Million

By The Maritime Executive

March 15, 2016

The German shipping companies Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG and Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG MS “Extum,” who owned and operated the cargo ship BBC Magellan, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to failure...

Industry Groups Support Contested Offshore Lease Sales

By The Maritime Executive

March 14, 2016

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will offer approximately 45 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in two March lease sales. However, concerns have...

New Plastic, Oil Clean-Up Device Unveiled

By The Maritime Executive

March 14, 2016

A team of inventors from Sussex, England, have developed a solar and wind-powered boat that can suck up plastic waste. Bluebird Marine Systems unveiled their proof of concept at the government-fund...

Drillers Fail in Deepwater Horizon Claims

By The Maritime Executive

March 13, 2016

A court ruling last week means that BP won’t have to face lawsuits by energy and oil field service companies over losses they blamed on the U.S. offshore drilling ban imposed after the 2010 Gulf of Me...

Funding Success for PT-305 Move

By The Maritime Executive

March 13, 2016

The National WWII Museum in the U.S. has fully funded its Kickstarter campaign to return patrol-torpedo boat PT-305 to her home waters in three days. The museum announced plans last week to return...

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