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Building on a Legacy of Firsts

By Tony Munoz

December 19, 2013

The SVITZER name has been serving the towing and salvage industries for almost two centuries, and today it operates in more than 40 countries with an estimated fleet of 500 vessels. In 1833, Emil Zeut...

Maritime Museum Sends Iconic Japanese Ship Model Home

By The Maritime Executive

December 13, 2013

Hikawa Maru, an 11-foot, highly intricate model of a Japanese passenger liner, is returning to its home country after gracing the Wisconsin Maritime Museum for the past 34 years. On Thursday, December...

Mexican Congress Passes Radical Shake-Up of Oil Industry

By The Maritime Executive

December 13, 2013

Mexico's Congress overwhelmingly voted to open up the country's oil and gas sector to private investment in the biggest overhaul of the industry since it was nationalized in 1938. After a whirlwind f...

Carnival Names First-Ever Chief Maritime Officer

By The Maritime Executive

December 5, 2013

Carnival Corporation & plc, the world's largest cruise company, announced that Vice Admiral William Burke has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Maritime Officer, effective December...

Canada Panel Urges Better Response Plan For Oil Spills

By The Maritime Executive

December 4, 2013

Photo: Clean-up efforts after the 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill Canada must be better prepared to respond to major oil spills if more crude starts to flow in pipelines to the country's Pacific Coast, a go...

Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. Continues to Expand

By The Maritime Executive

November 25, 2013

Photo of Annie Fisher The Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) would like to announce the continued expansion of its naval architecture and marine engineer practice. Over the past six months we have we...

Mr. Robert Bugbee Named Connecticut Maritime Association 2014 Commodore

By The Maritime Executive

November 19, 2013

Mr. Robert Bugbee, President of Scorpio has been named as the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) Commodore for the year 2014. Mr. Bugbee follows a long succession of influential maritime indust...

Maritime History: JFK's Island Bunker

By The Maritime Executive

November 19, 2013

Main room in the bunker, where President Kennedy might have run the U.S. during the first hours or days of a nuclear attack. The dingy, cavernous steel fallout shelter hastily built on a man-made isl...

World's Largest Cruise Ship to Undergo Repairs

By The Maritime Executive

November 15, 2013

Royal Caribbean International announced that a mechanical issue has made it necessary to perform unscheduled repairs to Allure of the Seas. The repairs will take place at Grand Bahama Shipyard, in Fr...

"Supermajor" Oil Company Selects Redline Communications for Oilfield Wireless Networking

By The Maritime Executive

November 15, 2013

Redline Communications (www.rdlcom.com) Group Inc. (TSX: RDL), a leading provider of broadband wireless solutions for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications announced today that its portfolio of Virt...

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