Last week, in a departure from his previous stance, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed unqualified support for the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague. The court’s landmark decision found that China’s sweeping “nine dash line” sovereignty claim to the South China Sea is broadly invalid. The Philippines was the plaintiff […]
Russian polar strategy specialist Elizabeth Buchanan has urged lawmakers in the United States to reconsider key assumptions about the impact of the China–Russia relationship on strategic issues in the Arctic. The following is an edited summary of Dr Buchanan’s evidence to the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Congressional Energy and National Security Caucus in […]
Immigration authorities in New Zealand are deporting three German sailors who arrived in the Bay of Islands aboard a yacht without prior permission. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand has refused entry to the yachting community, with exceptions for refits, repairs and humanitarian emergencies. Australia has also closed its doors to travel for non-essential […]
[Editor’s note: This article by PA1 Kurt Fredrickson originally appeared in a 2007 issue of Coast Guard Magazine. It has been updated for re-publication by PACAREA Historian Dr. David Rosen] “Our crew saved four people that night . . . and then my crew saved me–I get a little choked up when I think about […]
On Thursday, Iceland’s national broadcasting company aired an investigation into the demolition of two vessels formerly owned by Eimskip, the country’s largest container carrier. The segment details a complex sale-leaseback agreement that culminated in the scrapping of the vessels Godafoss and Laxfoss on the beach at Alang. The export of end-of-life ships to South Asian […]
In 1765, a young peasant woman left a remote corner of rural France where her impoverished family had scraped a living for generations. She set out on a journey that would take her around the world from the South American jungles and Magellan Strait to the tropical islands of the Indo-Pacific. Jeanne Barret (also Baret […]
ReCAAP issued a special report based on a significant increase in incidents in the anchorage and ports of the Philippines since the beginning of 2020. The report was prepared to highlight the situation and also to warn ships operating in the area to employ extra precautions. According to their tracking, the incidents in the first […]
Royal Navy EUD divers have successfully disabled a piece of World War 2 ordnance on the southern shore of the Bristol Channel. Called to a report of an unknown object exposed by an unusually low tide a few hundred meters off the National Trust beach at Middle Hope, north of the Somerset holiday resort of Weston-Super-Mare, the […]
The greening of the maritime industry is progressing with a variety of new ships either having been introduced or under construction that use technologies to be more environmentally sensitive. One sector that is moving quickly to embrace new technologies is the European ferry operators. Recently in Finland, they celebrated the keel laying for a new […]
Offshore vessel operator Harvey Gulf announced Thursday that it plans to install 10 more hybrid-electric battery systems aboard eight vessels, including four dual-fuel LNG-powered platform support vessels. The vessels covered by the plan include these four LNG-powered PSVs; one MPSV, which will receive two battery systems; and three non-LNG PSVs, including one that will receive […]
The President of the Marine & Offshore Division of Bureau Veritas (BV) has spoken about the need for the shipping industry to be both pragmatic and ambitious in securing its future: a future in which shipping meets its decarbonization targets, is more transparent, is better understood outside the sector, and keeps raising standards. Speaking on […]
The pandemic is causing the cruise industry to accelerate the retirement of many older ships. Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, which operates in the British market, confirmed that is has sold its two 1970s vintage cruise ships adding to the list of older ships that are unlikely to survive the extended pause in cruise operations. Typically, […]
