The number of piracy and armed robbery incidents reported in Asian waters has more than doubled in the first half of 2020 compared to last year. There were 51 incidents reported from January to June this year compared with 28 for the same period in 2019. The half-yearly statistics were released by the Regional Cooperation […]
Sembcorp Marine posting a net loss of $84 million in the first half due to the COVID-19 shutdown, which closed all of its Singapore yards for months. Addressing investors during an earnings call on July 15, SembMarine president and chief executive Wong Weng Sun said that the unforeseen crisis of the pandemic has had a telling impact. […]
Federal mediation efforts continue as the strike at Maine shipbuilder Bath Iron Works nears the one-month mark. BIW’s largest union, the Machinists’ Union Local S6, rejected the yard’s contract proposal and staged a walkout on June 22. The union’s objections center on seniority and work rules, particularly on the yard’s desire to hire in non-union […]
The pandemic lockdown has suspended and reduced many commercial retail business activities and compelled retailers to reduce their expenditures. It has reduced output from factories that sell to the retail trade and reduced the volume of cargo being carried aboard container ships. There are possible strategies by which the international container ship industry might offer […]
[By Marissa Garcia] In August 2019, researchers took a dive at Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Manawai) in Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument. At about 40 feet below the surface, they expected to see brilliant pinks and greens, characteristic of native stony corals. Instead, they saw mats of a red alga they did not recognize, stretching for the […]
[Brief] On Saturday, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mitscher assisted a sailing yacht which had gone adrift about 150 nautical miles east of the Bahamas. The distressed vessel radioed for help on the morning of July 17, and U.S. Coast Guard District 7 received the message. The Coast Guard coordinated with Mitscher, which was the closest ship able […]
[By Alexander Kupatadze] On July 1, Italian police made the largest amphetamine seizure in the world. At the port of Salerno, just south of Naples, they used chainsaws to open large cylinders of paper and industrial machinery that were inside shipping containers from Syria and found 14 tonnes of pills. In Hong Kong, customs officials […]
[By Maren Agdestein] This month, scientists from 14 institutions in six countries will begin examining the opportunities and risks of ocean-based technologies for negative emissions. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is one of 14 institutions involved in the OceanNETs project, newly funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 programme. The EU grant totaled $8.2 […]
Carnival Cruise Line is in the final stages of repatriating its crew members. More than 26,000 crew members have been sent home from the cruise line’s 26 ships. The process of returning crew home has included sending ships to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, South Africa, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The final segment of Carnival’s […]
On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council held a meeting on the condition of the single-hull FSO Safer, a 46-year-old converted tanker moored off Yemen. Marine safety and environmental experts warned that she is deteriorating rapidly and poses a serious risk to the Red Sea ecosystem. The Safer contains about one million barrels of oil, and if […]
Celestyal Cruises announced that it has acquired the Costa NeoRomantica cruise ship from Costa Cruises. It becomes the seven ship that Carnival Corporation has sold from its fleet as part of the announced efforts to accelerate the disposition of older ships from the fleet as the company continues to manage its business during the global pause […]
Norwegian offshore services contractor Aker Solutions is launching a major restructuring effort. The firm plans to spin off its offshore wind and carbon-capture divisions as separate firms, then absorb the offshore EPC contractor Kvaerner, a sister company controlled by Aker’s owner. “Aker Solutions has developed technology and taken strong positions in markets for offshore wind and […]
