Lebanese investigators have requested the arrest of the owner and the captain of the freighter Rhosus. The Rhosus arrived in Beirut in 2013 with a cargo of explosives-grade ammonium nitrate, and after the owner abandoned the crew and the ship over unpaid port fees, Lebanese officials offloaded the cargo and left it in a minimally-guarded […]
Contractors have demolished a U.S.-built facility at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, adding further impetus to reports that the Cambodian government has struck a deal with China for the refurbishment and use of the site. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the building was the former Tactical Headquarters of Cambodia’s National Committee for […]
[By Malcolm Davis and Charlie Lyons Jones] On September 15, China successfully launched the Long March-11 solid propellant launch vehicle off a merchant vessel in the Yellow Sea. This was the second such sea-based launch of a rocket conducted by China, with the first taking place on June 5 last year. The launch, overseen by the Taiyuan Satellite […]
Data is the building block for today’s world. As businesses evolve to keep pace with shifting industries, we must rely on increasing amounts of accurate and timely data to make fast, smart decisions. The primary function of a data warehouse is the ability to receive data from multiple sources and in various formats, classify and […]
On Friday, Air Force pararescue jumpers and a U.S. Navy helicopter crew medevaced the 73-year-old captain of the commercial fishing vessel Lady Alice at a position about 150 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. At 0740 hours on Monday, the owner of the Lady Alice told the Coast Guard that the master of the vessel was […]
Damen Shipyards Group has been awarded a contract to design a new Offshore Terminal Tug for Edison Chouest Offshore. Chouest will initially build two ASD Tugs 5016 at its Louisiana shipyard. The contract builds upon the well-established partnership between the two companies. Chouest has, to date, built twelve Damen ASD Tugs 3212 and five Damen ASD Tugs […]
In a new report released Friday, the British Ports Association (BPA) expressed its opposition to a government policy that would effectively raise taxes on the off-highway diesel fuel that ports use to power everyday operations. The BPA estimates that the end of the $2.26-per-gallon tax rebate in 2022 would increase ports’ costs by about three percent […]
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (NOG) warned Friday that a strike action by the managers’ and technicians’ union Lederne could affect production on six offshore oil fields beginning next week. If all were to go offline, it would represent a shut-in for 330,000 boepd of capacity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf – about eight […]
The US Coast Guard had a busy week responding to the grounding of a bulker in Virginia, a containership in Oregon that lost power, and managing the containment and clean up of oil leaking from a containership with a small crack in its hull in New Jersey. The first grounding call came from the Panamanian-flagged […]
Looking to create major advancements in the environmental performance of wind turbine installation vessels, Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein announced its second hydrogen hybrid design for the offshore wind industry. Using available technologies, the ULSTEIN J102 zero-emission wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), can operate 75 percent of the time in zero-emission mode. Further, Ulstein says it is […]
On October 2, the Port of Long Beach celebrated the opening of its long-awaited harbor bridge replacement for Interstate 710, which passes over the port’s Back Channel. Due to COVID-19, the opening ceremony was held virtually, with no public gathering on the bridge. However, several socially-distanced elements remained on the schedule, including a flyover by vintage […]
The international shipping association BIMCO is the latest member of the maritime community to express concerns over the decision to include the shipping industry in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). BIMCO in written statement said that the move will “inhibit global action on reducing CO2 emissions.” In September, the European Parliament moved to include the […]
