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International Legal Framework Governing Maritime Security

By The Maritime Executive

January 30, 2015

By Simon O. Williams, LLM The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was ahead of its time. It pre-empted environmental protection and low-intensity conflict paradigm shifts of th...

Marquette Transportation up for Sale

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2015

Marquette Transportation Company LLC, a U.S. towboat operator, is exploring a sale that could value it at more than $1 billion and has attracted the interest of Dell Inc Chief Executive Officer Michae...

Museum Discovers Century-Old Record of Ship's Sinking

By The Maritime Executive

January 26, 2015

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum has determined that a chart donated to the museum is the one on which ice captain Robert A. Bartlett recorded the disastrous 1914 Arctic expedition of the Karluk ship...

KNRM Sails to Thank Servowatch Systems

By The Maritime Executive

January 22, 2015

Servowatch Systems’ Head of R&D Stafford Williams received a special thank you yesterday for his “exceptional” work on KNRM’s new, award-winning lifeboat, Nh 1816. Roemer Boorgaard, the Chief Execu...

More Guilty Pleas in Navy Corruption Conspiracy

By The Maritime Executive

January 16, 2015

The owner and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a company providing services to the U.S. Navy, pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges in federal court on Thursday, admitting th...

Shipowners Pay after OW Bunker Collapse

By The Maritime Executive

January 13, 2015

Shipping firms have paid millions of dollars into U.S. accounts to prevent their vessels from being detained due to non-payment of bills for fuel supplied by the bankrupt OW Bunker, indicating the imp...

Connecticut Maritime Association Names 2015 Commodore

By The Maritime Executive

January 5, 2015

Capt. Panagiotis N. Tsakos, Founder of the Tsakos Group, has been named as the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) Commodore for the year 2015. Capt. Tsakos follows a long succession of influent...

A Final Farewell to Single Hull Oil Tankers

By The Maritime Executive

January 2, 2015

January 1, 2015 marks a major milestone in preventing oil spills. That date is the deadline which the landmark Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA-90) specifies for phasing out single-hull tankers in U....

Norman Atlantic: Stowaways and Selfishness

By Wendy Laursen

January 1, 2015

Up to 100 people are still feared missing after the Norman Atlantic caught fire in the Adriatic last Sunday on route from Greece to Italy. So far, 11 people have been confirmed dead, but there are...

Virginia Port's Economic Impact State-Wide and Significant

By The Maritime Executive

December 29, 2014

The Port of Virginia continues to be a significant economic force in the Commonwealth’s economy, according to an economic impact study conducted by The College of William & Mary. This fall, the port c...

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