On Thursday, authorities in Finland reported that the cable damage incident on Christmas Day affected more than just the Estlink 2 subsea power cable, and that a tanker has been boarded for purposes of investigation. Out of three cable damage incidents in the Baltic over the past year, this is the first in which […]
China completed its first domestic ammonia bunkering operation for a vessel and one of only a handful of ammonia bunkers conducted worldwide. It is part of a broader demonstration project launched in China in 2022 to develop an ammonia-fueled tugboat. The bunkering operation took place on December 24 in Dalian at the COSCO Shipping Heavy […]
[By: Damen Shipyards Group] Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Shoalbuster (SBu) 3209 to Caspian Offshore Construction. The vessel, named Caspian Lotus, joins the company’s fleet of over 50 vessels and barges. Caspian Lotus begins its career supporting dredging projects in the Persian Gulf. The vessel is well suited to its operational scope, with its […]
[By: Crowley] Cadets Anna LaDue and Odegaard Fields from Maine Maritime Academy have been awarded the Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship. These students were selected based on their performance during the cadet training periods aboard Crowley-operated or -managed ships and their intent to pursue maritime careers. LaDue, a junior from Canterbury, New Hampshire, is […]
After years of delays, design challenges and costs overruns, the U.S Coast Guard (USCG) is finally set to begin the construction of the lead vessel in a class of new heavy polar icebreakers, the first to be built in the country in more than five decades. The USCG and the Navy Integrated Program Office received […]
The sanctioned shipowner behind a fleet of Russian sealift ships says that the freighter that went down near the Strait of Gibraltar this week was sunk by a “terrorist attack.” At some point between 1050 and 1230 hours on Monday, the sanctioned heavy lift ship Ursa Major was under way east of the Strait of […]
On Christmas Day, the EstLink2 subsea power cable between Finland and Estonia went dark, prompting speculation of a “hybrid” sabotage attack on subsea infrastructure in the Baltic. At 1226 hours local time on Wednesday, the Finnish utility Fingrid detected an outage on the EstLink2, a DC power cable connecting Finland and Estonia. It is […]
Two new emissions filter barges developed by a company called STAX are preparing to enter service. One of the barges will be deployed in an expansion of the service at the Port of Benicia while the other barge will be the first dedicated to tankers at the Port of Los Angeles. The California Air […]
Chinese officials are reporting the successful sea trials of what they are calling the world’s largest heavy lift vessel. Commentators are comparing its lift capacity to that of China’s domestically built aircraft carrier. Named Fan Zhou 8, the vessel reportedly has a capacity for over 58,000 metric tons of cargo. The massive lift deck is […]
Early Sunday morning, a U.S. Navy cruiser accidentally shot down a U.S. Navy fighter jet over the Red Sea, forcing the two pilots to eject. The Navy confirmed the incident on the 22nd, but two days later, Fox News reported a previously undisclosed detail: a second missile narrowly missed hitting a second fighter. “It […]
Japan Accelerates Offshore Wind with Projects Involving BP, JERA, Marubeni, and Others Japan selected two consortiums to develop offshore wind projects as it seeks to accelerate its renewable energy programs. Combined the two projects would provide over 1 GW of energy and one could be one of the largest offshore wind farms yet developed in […]
A dry bulk carrier flagged in Cyprus is facing the prospect of being aground for a few days in Canada’s St. Lawrence River. There is no sign of pollution or water ingress, but the vessel is stuck outside the channel with a spokesperson for the Canadian Coast Guard telling the Montreal Gazette the plan to […]
