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by John Konrad (gCaptain) Despite popular opinion, Maersk is not the world’s largest shipping company and Delta is not the world’s largest airline. But both do have massive contracts with …
By Victoria Cavaliere (Bloomberg) — A backup of more than 2,000 boats and barges on the Mississippi River is being cleared as two closures along the waterway reopened on Sunday. …
by John Konrad (gCaptain) A subsea power cable is now online after an earlier outage caused a complete blackout on a small Danish island. The cable is located near the …
China’s leaders worry that the country is too dependent on imports of liquefied natural gas. By John Kemp (Reuters) – China’s reliance on imported gas is increasing despite government efforts …
For many companies having a hard time finding quality deck officers, the Maritime Apprenticeship Program (MAP) from MITAGS is a cost-effective way to recruit and qualify new talent. The MITAGS …
By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) A drone operator and helicopter pilot captured rare footage of a pod of orcas killing a great white shark near Mossel Bay on the south coast …
A UK Royal Navy frigate seized 870 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine worth $45 million from a fishing vessel in the Middle East last week. The ship – HMS Montrose – …
A recently released report commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) reveals the extent of sexual harassment in Antarctica. by Meredith Nash, Australian National University (TheConversati
by Sébastien Pelletier, Université Laval (The Conversation) Of all the rivers in the world, the St. Lawrence River is undeniably one of the most challenging for mariners. This water highway …
By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) Few observers have had a better perch to watch the pandemic slowly clog — and now free up — one of the biggest arteries of global …
by Megan Rose (ProPublica) A military judge found Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays not guilty on Friday of setting fire to a $1.2 billion Navy ship. Mays, 21, had stood trial …
by Silvia Ognibene (Reuters) Companies and households in a Tuscan town chosen to host a new regasification terminal should be offered a 50% discount on their gas price to help …
By Max Hunder and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) – Russian divers were to examine on Sunday the damage from a powerful blast on a road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that is an …
Pope Francis defends maritime migrants after Italy’s newly elected Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for a “migrant blockade” to crack down on immigration. By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Pope Fran
By Natalia Drozdiak (Bloomberg) NATO allies are struggling to work out how to better safeguard undersea critical infrastructure after the Nord Stream pipelines blasts laid bare the difficulty of monit
By Sophie Caronello (Bloomberg) Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the nation’s agricultural exports. As of Friday, the river
By Max Hunder and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) – A powerful truck explosion seriously damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestige symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the
By Joe Deaux, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) — Shippers struggling to move grains and fertilizer along a dried-up Mississippi River are also racing to beat the start of …
By Ira Breskin NEW YORK— Recognizing potential risks attached to the US maritime industry’s expanded reach was the theme of the Navy League’s inaugural Maritime Security Conference held here Thursday
By Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Shipping and commodities firms will commission more ships partly powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) next year while ramping up trials for …
