[Brief] On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued three mariners from a commercial fishing vessel that ran aground and began taking on water two miles west of Anna Maria Island, a barrier island at the mouth of Tampa Bay on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a channel 16 distress call from the Warrior’s crew, who […]
The troubled first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is still unable to launch and recover fighters with anywhere near the reliability required for operations, according to a draft report produced by the Pentagon’s director of operational testing and evaluation. The report – obtained and first reported by Bloomberg – echoes the office’s earlier concerns about […]
PIRIOU has just officially signed with the French Pays de la Loire Region for the order of a ro-ro passenger ship dedicated to serve the island of Yeu (West France). It will be built on a PIRIOU design in collaboration with the Nantes-based naval architecture design office Stirling Design International. This robust and stylish design […]
[By Aaron Lim] Most people associate the word “coral” with sunshine, blue skies and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In fact, more than half of the 5,100 species on the planet exist as “cold-water corals” in deep and dark parts of the world’s oceans. Unlike most other animals, corals are immobile and so rely heavily on currents to […]
It has been extremely difficult for shippers to cross South Africa’s border with Mozambique since the implementation of new COVID-19 rules by the South African government. Truck congestion extends for kilometers, caused by a severe shortage of health officials to clear shippers and other passengers, and mineral exports are particularly affected. Lebombo is one of […]
Drug enforcement authorities in the West African country of Gambia made the largest cocaine seizure in the history of their country. Nearly three tons of cocaine with a street value estimated at more than $87 million was seized at the Gambia’s seaport in Banjul. The drug authorities reported that they had seized one hundred and […]
Shipowners have limited options to access financing for ship repair, given the capital-intensive nature of vessel repairs also represents a financial risk for shipyards. Typically, a shipowner must fund the entire capital cost of vessel repairs from its own cash resources, although it may in exceptional cases be able to source a short-term loan from […]
British authorities have dropped the charges against seven Nigerian stowaways that were accused of endangering a product tanker after a confrontation with the crew. The vessel was later boarded by British special forces in response to the crew’s calls for help. Announcing the decision to drop the case, the prosecutors said, “Our case was that […]
The search for the missing crew of the Taiwanese fishing vessel Yong Yu Sing No. 18 continues in a remote segment of the mid-Pacific. The tuna longliner Yong Yu Sing No. 18 dropped out of contact with her owners in late December, just as a major storm system was approaching her area of operations. No […]
Will Roberts has been appointed the new president of Foss Maritime. Roberts was previously Chief Operating Officer at Foss. Recently, Roberts oversaw the new vessel build program yielding four new tugboats built for Foss and sister company, AmNav. With the recent news of Saltchuk Marine’s (Foss’ holding company) acquisition of Centerline Logistics’ ship assist business […]
Canadian mining company VanadiumCorp announced this week that it has reached an agreement with a Dutch naval architect and a German shipowner on the development and testing of a novel energy storage system for shipboard use. VanadiumCorp is the developer of a massive, high grade vanadium ore prospect at Lac Doré, Quebec. The element’s largest […]
The European Commission has awarded funding to a research project to investigate the feasibility and potential of combining an offshore wind turbine directly with an electrolyzer and transporting renewable hydrogen to shore. Known as the OYSTER project it is designed to demonstrate a combined wind turbine and electrolyzer system designed for operation in marine environments. […]
