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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
VIKING Collaborates With Offshore Wind Safety Leaders To Launch World’s First Immersion Suit Designed For Women
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VIKING Collaborates With Offshore Wind Safety Leaders To Launch World’s First Immersion Suit Designed For Women

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has launched the first Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) immersion suit in the world designed for women working in offshore wind energy,

April 23, 2025
Total Views: 1351

Sallaum Lines Selects Inmarsat Nexuswave To Drive Fleetwide Digitalisation Strategy
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Sallaum Lines Selects Inmarsat Nexuswave To Drive Fleetwide Digitalisation Strategy

Agreement sees Sallaum Lines become an early adopter to transition to Inmarsat Maritime’s fully managed bonded connectivity service from traditional VSAT

April 23, 2025
Total Views: 340

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
NYC Waterfront Project Aims to Shift Freight from Truck to Barge
Shipping

NYC Waterfront Project Aims to Shift Freight from Truck to Barge

By Daniel Katzive (gCaptain) –  New York City’s slow-moving efforts to get more freight off the city’s congested highways and onto the

April 22, 2025
Total Views: 2515

Monday, April 21, 2025
Fugro And Damen Partner To Support The Royal Netherlands Navy With Marine Security And Surveillance Vessel
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Fugro And Damen Partner To Support The Royal Netherlands Navy With Marine Security And Surveillance Vessel

Fugro and Damen have teamed up to provide the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) with a surveillance vessel and operating crew. The Dutch Ministry of Defence has

April 21, 2025
Total Views: 820

WISTA India Conference shines spotlight on sustainable shipping and diversity success
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WISTA India Conference shines spotlight on sustainable shipping and diversity success

Sustainable shipping and successes in diversity took centre stage at the inaugural WISTA India ExCo Conference in Mumbai, which coincided with the first WISTA

April 21, 2025
Total Views: 440

Friday, April 18, 2025
A Call for Essential Maritime Waste-Management Training
Press Releases

A Call for Essential Maritime Waste-Management Training

By Benny Carlson, Co-Founder of Marinfloc In my 30 years in the industry, I have witnessed firsthand how waste handling on ships remains one of the most

April 18, 2025
Total Views: 451

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
IonQ Signs MoU with Intellian, Deepening Its Commitment to Advancing South Korea’s Quantum Economy
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IonQ Signs MoU with Intellian, Deepening Its Commitment to Advancing South Korea’s Quantum Economy

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Intellian

April 16, 2025
Total Views: 150

Bardex’s Own Robert Taylor Recognized for Significant Maritime Engineering Achievements, Contributions at Sea-Air-Space 2025
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Bardex’s Own Robert Taylor Recognized for Significant Maritime Engineering Achievements, Contributions at Sea-Air-Space 2025

Taylor has been named the winner of the Albert A. Michelson Award by the Navy League of the United States, whose mission is to support and strengthen U.S.

April 16, 2025
Total Views: 199

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Fire on the Grande Costa D’Avorio ship
Accidents

NTSB: Inadequate Firefighting Training Led to Deaths in Newark Ship Fire

By Daniel Katzive (gCaptain) – New Jersey firefighters who responded to a July 2023 fire aboard a RoRo cargo ship at Port Newark lacked adequate training

April 15, 2025
Total Views: 2628

Caribe Tankers To Trial Inmarsat Nexuswave For Connected Certainty And Enhanced Crew Welfare
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Caribe Tankers To Trial Inmarsat Nexuswave For Connected Certainty And Enhanced Crew Welfare

Trial will assess performance of Inmarsat Maritime’s fully managed bonded connectivity service as US-based commercial and operational shipping management

April 15, 2025
Total Views: 240

Incat Crowther Designed Custom Crew Transfer Vessels Set For Japanese Offshore Wind Industry
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Incat Crowther Designed Custom Crew Transfer Vessels Set For Japanese Offshore Wind Industry

Experienced Japanese operator Tokyo Kisen Co Ltd has taken delivery of the first of two new bespoke  crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to service Japan’s

April 15, 2025
Total Views: 413

Damen signs with Arena Offshore A.S.for Turkish construction of Stan Tugs 1606
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Damen signs with Arena Offshore A.S.for Turkish construction of Stan Tugs 1606

Damen has chosen Arena Offshore A.S. for the construction of two Stan Tugs 1606, marking its first design collaboration with an external company in Türkiye

April 15, 2025
Total Views: 225

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Game-Changing OmniCrane™ Puts Bardex in the Running for 2025 Ventus Award
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Game-Changing OmniCrane™ Puts Bardex in the Running for 2025 Ventus Award

he Bardex OmniCrane™ brings unprecedented safety and environmental benefits – and more – to the offshore wind industry and ports throughout the world,

April 9, 2025
Total Views: 373

Monday, April 7, 2025
Sea Asia 2025 Celebrates a Decade of Success Showcasing Asia’s Leadership in Shipping’s Green Transition Amid Evolving Industry Landscape
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Sea Asia 2025 Celebrates a Decade of Success Showcasing Asia’s Leadership in Shipping’s Green Transition Amid Evolving Industry Landscape

At Sea Asia’s 10th biennial edition, the leading shipping and maritime expo and conference in Asia welcomed close to 21,000 attendees from across 92

April 7, 2025
Total Views: 277

Friday, April 4, 2025
Tankers International: VLCC Market Faces a Mirage of Growth as Ageing Fleet Drags Down Supply
Shipping

Tankers International: VLCC Market Faces a Mirage of Growth as Ageing Fleet Drags Down Supply

VLCC specialist Tankers International is projecting effective vessel supply growth of only 1% in the next three years due to the declining usable capacity of a

April 4, 2025
Total Views: 975

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Kongsberg Discovery takes innovative approach to Ocean Business 2025
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Kongsberg Discovery takes innovative approach to Ocean Business 2025

Kongsberg Discovery is gearing up to make a splash at Ocean Business 2025, with high profile product demonstrations, a new digital innovation launch, and a

April 2, 2025
Total Views: 808

MARIN tests verify groundbreaking efficiency of ABB Dynafin™ propulsion
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MARIN tests verify groundbreaking efficiency of ABB Dynafin™ propulsion

Globally recognized maritime research institute MARIN has verified that efficiency levels modeled for ABB Dynafin™ propulsion concept will convert to

April 2, 2025
Total Views: 809

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Bollinger Shipyards Hosts 9/11 Steel Transfer Ceremony with US Coast Guard Officials and Local Leaders
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Bollinger Shipyards Hosts 9/11 Steel Transfer Ceremony with US Coast Guard Officials and Local Leaders

Last week, Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”), a leading designer and builder of high-performance military and commercial vessels, hosted a 9/11 steel

April 1, 2025
Total Views: 960

Monday, March 31, 2025
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Shipbuilding

The Complex Challenge of Modern Shipbuilding: Addressing Systemic Delays Through AI Integration

The United States has a chronic shipbuilding problem: since the 1980s, the construction of large military vessels has significantly and consistently exceeded

March 31, 2025
Total Views: 1929

Friday, March 28, 2025
ABS Wavesight™ Strengthens Maritime Collaboration with Vision and Value Summit in Singapore
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ABS Wavesight™ Strengthens Maritime Collaboration with Vision and Value Summit in Singapore

ABS Wavesight™, the ABS-affiliated Software-as-a-Service company, proudly hosted its Vision and Value Summit in Singapore. The event brought together users

March 28, 2025
Total Views: 348