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U.S. Maritime Industry Announces Second Annual Congressional “Sail-In”– May 4, 2011

By On February 1, 2011

The U.S. Maritime Coalition has announced that this year’s Congressional “Sail-In” will take place on Capitol Hill on May 4, 2011. The Sail-In will look to build on the success [...]

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Collision Avoidance Tip – Call his boss!

By On May 28, 2009

It’s the classic scenario from the Academy… You are the stand on vessel with no room to maneuver and a zero CPA contact is bearing down on you. You try [...]

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Container Shipping Companies – The Ten Largest Visualized

By On March 7, 2009

UDPATED: January 2012 The data visualization above represents the worlds 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity. WORLD TEU CAPACITY: 15,899,687 For those who prefer more traditional data we [...]

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Foreign Flag or Flag of Convenience?

By On February 19, 2009

Foreign Flag or Flag of Convenience? by Ian Bowles During the glory days of empire and famous shipping lines, it would have been easy for nationalistic tendencies to come to [...]

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BIMCO – ISF shipping industry statistics

By On December 5, 2008

We recently ran across some interesting statistics from a 2005 joint study on manpower from BIMCO and the ISF. Q: How many officers are currently employed aboard ships?

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Cosco Busan – Questions,Questions,Questions

By On November 16, 2007

By Bob Couttie  Once the US National Transportation Safety Board has produced the transcripts of the voyage data recorder from the Cosco Busan (Formerly the Hanjin Cairo, the Hanjin name [...]

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Shipping References – Cosco Busan Research Links

By On November 14, 2007

For those curious how the editors at gCaptain research maritime incidents like the Cosco Busan’s allision with San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, here are some of the websites that provide excellent [...]

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Cosco Busan Audio Files – San Francisco Oil Spill

By On November 14, 2007

Coast Guard Photo By CWO Scott Epeprson I thought I would list a few podcasts, interviews and audio files that relate to the Cosco Busan Incident and the resultant oil [...]

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Maritime Flags of Convenience Visualized

By On October 18, 2007

CLICK FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION With the recent LNG News I decided to get to work on some maritime visualizations. Above is a bubble graph I created representing the number of [...]

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U.S. v. Martin Kapp – 10 Mariner Tax Questions Answered

By On September 24, 2007

U.S. v. Kapp – What Happened? By James MacGuire As many are aware at this point, Mr. Kapp was the defendant in an action brought forth by the United States [...]

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Mariner Tax Expert James MacGuire

By On September 24, 2007

We have been hard at work finding information for those who have been “Kappsized” by the IRS’ decision against certain aspects of mariner tax deductions promoted by Martin A. Kapp’s [...]

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gCaptain Blogroll – Big Ships

By On August 27, 2007

I wanted to take some time and thank some of our partner sites; Maritime Experts from around the web. I also wanted to take the time to explain each one [...]

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