An emerging Portuguese cruise company named Mystic Cruises announced that it acquired the cruise ship Vasco de Gama as part of the ongoing auction of the ships owned by the Global Maritime Group of Greece and previously operated Cruise and Maritime Voyages. The UK Admiralty Court in September ordered five of the cruise ships sold […]
The container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade, the world’s first LNG-fueled Megamax-24, has set a new world record for the number of full containers aboard a single vessel. When she departed Singapore on October 12, the vessel was carrying 20,723 TEU worth of cargo – about 10 percent below of her nominal maximum capacity of […]
In the latest sign of recovery in the global shipping markets, A.P. Moller – Maersk reported that volumes were rebounding faster than expected, causing it to raise its earnings outlook for the remainder of 2020. The company, however, remains cautious about the outlook for 2021 while also moving forward with job cuts as part of its planned […]
Hermitage Offshore Services, Scorpio Group’s financially troubled offshore operation, announced the sale of its fleet as part of the ongoing bankruptcy procedure at the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to the bankruptcy, the company owned 10 platform supply vessels, or PSVs, 11 crew boats, and two anchor handling boats. […]
On Friday, as Hurricane Delta approached the Louisiana-Texas border, U.S. Coast Guard servicemembers rescued six people from grounded fishing vessels near Gilchrist, Texas. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a report of three fishing vessels aground in the Intracoastal Waterway north of Rollover Pass, about 80 miles to the west of Hurricane Delta’s trackline. There were […]
More than a year after she set sail, the German research icebreaker Polarstern has returned to port from an unusual expedition in the high Arctic. Last October, her crew selected an ice floe in Fram Strait and set up camp on it, drifting with the ice over the course of the polar winter and gathering […]
A growing number of projects focusing on harnessing wind power are emerging as the shipping industry looks to its origins for the solution to lower emissions and achieve sustainability. Demonstrating the growing interest in the sector marine technology provider Høglund Marine Solutions has taken a two-thirds stake in Vindskip AS, a company developing a wind […]
The Turkish seismic survey vessel Oruc Reis will soon return to disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean, reprising the role she played in regional tensions in August. “The maintenance work on our seismic research vessel has been completed,” wrote Turkish energy minister Fatih Donmez in a Twitter post. “We will continue to research, dig and […]
After two weeks of struggling to overcome the effects of a cyber-attack on its systems, shipping giant CMA CGM Group announced that it has finally been able to restore operations on its e-commerce sites and resume all bookings online. Customers had been struggling and frustrated by the outage, demonstrated by a filing the group made […]
For the second time in weeks, health authorities in Western Australia are dealing with an outbreak of the coronavirus aboard bulkers calling at Port Hedland in Northwest Australia. The port plays a vital role in Australia’s ore industry. The Department of Health confirmed that a crew member of the ore carrier Vega Dream was transferred […]
As the U.S. Navy gears up for a future with more unmanned vessels and fewer large surface combatants, its supply base is preparing to meet the changing demand. The nation’s largest defense shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), has announced plans to build a new autonomous vessel research, development and production site in the Hampton Roads […]
The containership MSC Paris arrived in the port of Haifa in Israel carrying the first-ever cargo transported directly between the United Arab Emirates and the Jewish state. Arriving just two months after the historic peace deal was announced between the two countries, it also marks the beginning of weekly service coming from Dubai to Israel. […]
