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Will Tamayo Joins Compass Logistics & Marine LLC as Branch Manager

By The Maritime Executive

September 11, 2023

[By: Compass Logistics & Marine LLC] Compass Logistics & Marine LLC is proud to introduce Will Tamayo as their new Branch Manager. In this important leadership position, he will build upon the team...

Tour Boat Left High and Dry in Grounding in Columbia Bay

By The Maritime Executive

September 5, 2023

Last week, U.S. Coast Guard aircrews rescued the passengers and crew of a tour boat that had gone aground on a shoal in Columbia Bay, home of Southeast Alaska's Columbia Glacier. The vessel was high a...

40 Years Later: The Loss of the Marine Electric

By Corinne Zilnicki

August 27, 2023

[This article was originally published in 2019, and it is reprinted here in recognition of the 40th year of the Marine Electric's loss.] At midnight on February 12, 1983, the 605-foot cargo ship Ma...

WA Port Event Highlights Threat to U.S. AID Food for Peace Program

By The Maritime Executive

August 21, 2023

[By: USAID] At the Washington Port of Longview, American farmers, port workers, millers, mariners, and state and federal policymakers, stood together to commemorate the significant humanitaria...

Four Divers Reunited With Family After Miraculous Rescue

By The Maritime Executive

August 14, 2023

On Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a miraculous rescue, saving four divers who had failed to surface at a site about 50 miles off the coast of North Carolina. On Sunday, watchstanders at Co...

Canada Continues to Buy Local with New AOPS Bearing Deal for Thordon

By The Maritime Executive

August 13, 2023

[By: Thordon Bearings] Thordon Bearings has been awarded a contract to supply seawater-lubricated bearings for installation to the first of two modified versions of the Harry DeWolf-class of Arctic...

Robert Canavan's Impossible Story of Survival at Guadalcanal

By U.S. Coast Guard News

August 13, 2023

[By William H. Thiesen, Ph.D., Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian] In August 1942, during the initial stages of World War II’s Guadalcanal campaign, the local waters of Iron Bottom Sound concealed...

Construction Starts on Canadian Coast Guard’s Arctic Patrol Ships

By The Maritime Executive

August 8, 2023

Work is getting underway at Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax on the first of two new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) for the Canadian Coast Guard’s fleet. By sharing an adapted platform...

Ocean Experts Appointed to Federal Ocean Research Advisory Panel

By The Maritime Executive

August 3, 2023

[By: NOAA] On August 1, 2023, 18 ocean experts began their appointment as members of the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). The 18 ORAP members include representatives from the National Academie...

Blue Skies Ahead for the Resurgent Ro-Ro Business

By Tom Peters

July 25, 2023

In the marine industry’s roll on-roll off sector, the wheels of progress continue to move forward as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of autos and units of farm and construction equipment moving...

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