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Crowley Orders New ATB for Western Alaska Market

By The Maritime Executive

September 10, 2019

Crowley Fuels has signed construction contracts to build a 55,000-barrel, articulated tug-barge (ATB) that is specifically designed to serve the Western Alaska market with delivery of clean fuel produ...

Chauncey Naylor Named Director at Resolve Maritime Academy

By The Maritime Executive

September 8, 2019

Resolve Maritime Academy, the learning arm of the Resolve Marine Group, welcomes Chauncey Naylor as the Academy’s new Director responsible for operational management, strategic course, and certificati...

Thordon Bearings Founder Wins Prestigious Sperry Award

By The Maritime Executive

September 6, 2019

Polymer materials pioneer George A. "Sandy" Thomson has been awarded the global transportation sector’s most distinguished recognition, the Elmer A. Sperry Award, given for “advancing the art of trans...

Video: The Wreck of the Franklin Expedition's HMS Terror

By The Maritime Executive

August 30, 2019

Parks Canada has released new video from the interior of HMS Terror, one of two vessels from the Franklin Expedition of 1845, which sought to find the Northwest Passage but ended in tragedy. The ve...

Geest in Line for Portsmouth Return

By The Maritime Executive

August 25, 2019

Eastern Caribbean shipping firm Geest Line is returning to Portsmouth two years after relocating to Dover. The company moved its cargo handling operation to the Kent port due to scheduling difficul...

Contract Awarded for Additional Expeditionary Sea Bases

By The Maritime Executive

August 24, 2019

General Dynamics NASSCO has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy worth up to $1.6 billion for the construction of the sixth and seventh ships of the Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) program, as well a...

Armstrong Research Vessel Delivered to University of Alaska Fairbanks

By The Maritime Executive

August 13, 2019

The 40’ x 13’ research vessel Nanuq recently entered service for the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. In a competitive solicitation process last year, the Univer...

Finalists Announced for First Maritime UK Awards

By The Maritime Executive

August 12, 2019

The finalists have been announced for the first ever Maritime UK Awards. The awards, which will be given to individuals as well as businesses, charities, colleges and universities, focus on a wide...

U.S. Navy Coating Development Slows Discoloration

By The Maritime Executive

July 31, 2019

A pigment package designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is starting to slow discoloration of the “haze gray” exterior coating on U.S. Navy surface ships. While many paint manufacture...

The USCG's Environmental Mission 30 Years After Exxon Valdez

By William Thiesen

July 26, 2019

Thirty years ago on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez steamed into a reef at 12 knots, opening eight of her 10 oil storage tanks to the pristine waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The...

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