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Renewables Job Count Passes One Measure of O&G Employment

By The Maritime Executive

January 12, 2016

The Solar Foundation reported Tuesday that the solar power industry provided over 200,000 jobs in 2015, surpassing the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate of 185,000 positions in the...

Navigating with a Clear View

By The Maritime Executive

January 12, 2016

The sun has long been a problem for mariners when sailing as the glare it generates can make navigating difficult. In sunny and bright conditions mariners need to make sure that the sun does not compr...

Libya Empties Oil Storage Tanks After Attacks

January 11, 2016

Libya's National Oil Corporation has emptied oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf terminal as a precaution after Islamic State militants attacked the country's two biggest oil ports last week, an offici...

Alaskan Wrecks Spelt the End of U.S. Whaling

By The Maritime Executive

January 11, 2016

NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska in one of the planet's most unexplored o...

Weathering Change in the Arctic

By Wendy Laursen

January 11, 2016

The Russian icebreaker Vaygach recently completed a transit of the Northern Sea Route in just seven and a half days. Although it was hailed as a new record by some Russian media, it is the time the tr...

With Export Ban Lifted, Asia Considers Alaskan Oil

January 8, 2016

Oil traders in Asia are running the numbers on importing Alaskan crude, after the end of a four-decade ban on U.S. exports also eliminated a costly tanker requirement for shipping North Slope oil over...

Distributed Lethality and Concepts of Future War

January 8, 2016

Distributed lethality is a concept that was officially launched a year ago by Navy leadership to explore how dispersing forces would enhance warfighting. Traditionally, dispersion has been a cardinal...

The Fourth Pillar of Shipping

By Wendy Laursen

January 8, 2016

GMS is not nearly as dependent on ship recycling as it once was, but President & CEO Dr. Anil Sharma remains passionate about what he calls “the fourth pillar of shipping.” Established in 1992 in t...

Will Renewables Be the Death of Oil?

By G. Allen Brooks

January 8, 2016

Not likely, says the author, despite the clamorings of environmentalists and the hype surrounding the upcoming climate change conference in Paris. Thousands of environmentalists, government policym...

Crude Awakening

By Jack O'Connell

January 8, 2016

It’s the best tanker market in a decade, says one analyst, and it’s likely to continue. Last year at this time I did a column on LPG, the “other gas.” It was leading the way in the volatile shippin...

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