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Tekmar Trial Proves Successful at The Underwater Center

By The Maritime Executive

June 9, 2016

Tekmar Energy, which supplies cable protection systems (CPS) to the offshore windfarm industry, has successfully carried out a full-scale demonstration of its products at The Underwater Centre, the su...

Dramatic Shift From Coal Slows Carbon Emissions

By The Maritime Executive

June 8, 2016

The 65th edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, launched this week, highlights that while natural gas and oil recorded solid growth in 2015, global demand for coal saw its largest fall...

KDB to Recapitalize Ahead of Shipbuilding Losses

By The Maritime Executive

June 7, 2016

Korea Development Bank is moving to improve its debt coverage ratio in preparation for the restructuring of the nation’s troubled shipbuilders. On average, South Korea’s banks keep capital on hand rep...

Tug Strikes Hamburg Tour Boat, 15 Injured

By The Maritime Executive

June 7, 2016

[Brief] On Tuesday afternoon, the tug Jörn struck the cruise boat Irma II in Hamburg harbor, near the Blohm + Voss shipyard, injuring 15 of the 39 passengers aboard. Six had to be taken to the hospita...

COSCO Launches World's Largest Tanker Company

By The Maritime Executive

June 7, 2016

On Monday, China COSCO Shipping officially launched the world's largest tanker company with a ceremony in Shanghai. COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation will be the top tanker firm both by tonnage and...

BP Settles Class Action

By The Maritime Executive

June 7, 2016

BP has agreed to pay $175 million to shareholders who brought a class-action lawsuit that accused the oil company of misleading them by understating the severity of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spil...

Growing Container Throughput in Latin America

By Octavio Doerr

June 7, 2016

By Octavio Doerr, Ports and logistic at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) The movement of cargo in containers in Latin American and Caribbean ports grew 1.7 percen...

Why We Need the Human Factor in Modern Shipping

By Captain J. Timothy Bordelon

June 7, 2016

By Captain J. Timothy Bordelon I have sailed for thirty years as master of deep sea cargo ships. When I started my career in 1978, manual methods of maritime navigation were the norm. Communication...

The Value of a 3D Arctic Simulator

By Bjarne Rasmussen

June 7, 2016

I took the image above through a rotating window in the wheelhouse during a terrific storm in the icy waters off Antarctica. The memory of this moment remains in my vision and has fuelled my belief th...

Captain Mike Healy: Tamer of America's Western Sea Frontier

By William Thiesen

June 7, 2016

By William Thiesen, Atlantic Area Historian for the U.S. Coast Guard The colorful Captain “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy, famed skipper of the Bear. U.S. Coast Guard photo. “When I am in charge...

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