Mike Schuler

By Sahra Abdi NAIROBI, April 13 (Reuters) – Somalia’s interim government and the semi-autonomous region of Puntland vowed on Tuesday to work

Australian authorities have arrested the Chinese captain and chief officer on watch during the April 3rd grounding of the Shen Neng 1 on the Great Barrier

Five Somali pirates accused of attacking the USS Nicholas could be sent to the United States to face trial, only the second time in recent history.  CNN tells

The U.S. Department of Transportation has officialy announced launch of the marine highway program, a new initiative that aims to take advantage of the

Our good friends at the Amver blog tell us of the most recent rescue at sea involving an Amver registered vessel. The United States Coast Guard Eleventh

After viewing the AIS data yesterday showing the course of the Shen Neng 1 before it ran aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, it’s no

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By KEITH BRADSHER April 7, 2010, New York Times HONG KONG — A Chinese coal freighter aground on the Great Barrier Reef has at least one punctured fuel

The following is a press release issued on The International Law of the Shipmaster, a new book that serves as a reference tool and guide to “Shipmaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3-YROQ2DW8&feature=player_embedded The USNI blog tells us why container based cruise missiles might not be so far off in

(CNN) — A Chinese-registered ship carrying coal that ran aground off the coast of northeast Australia was leaking oil Sunday near the Great Barrier Reef

In efforts to expand IMO’s 2010 “Year of the Seafarer” campaign, the good folks at Amver are recognizing all those who make the Amver system

Photo by rickydiver78 via Flickr We’ve seen pirates accidentally attack the wrong ship before, but this seem’s just plain stupid.  A statement

(CNN) — President Obama unveiled plans Wednesday to open large swaths of U.S. coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to oil and

By REUTERS Pirates seized a cargo ship on Monday with 24 crew members off the port of Aden, Yemen. The vessel, the MV Iceberg 1, was boarded just 10

By John M. Glionna and Ju-min Park | The Los Angeles Times | Photo: AP March 30, 2010 Reporting from Seoul – Plunging into the murky waters of the

Interested in modern day pirates?  Check out gCaptain’s full piracy coverage. In what could be the first incident of its kind, a Somali pirate was shot

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power systems integrator, has signed a new agreement with Raytheon Anschütz, a division of Raytheon

This weeks incident photos and video is of the M/V CMA CGM Debussy pinning the tug Vadeni.  The incident occurred on March 8th at the Port of Constanta,

By Wayne McCormick via AmericanMarineHighways.com Update 03/16/2010 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was in San Diego on February 5th to speak at a Town