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By Captain Guillermo Manfredo, The Panama Canal Expansion was proposed to increase the capacity of the waterway and accommodate the projected future demand, in
It shouldn’t surprise any of us that combat at sea is the focus of the United States
Panama Canal Pilats face major operational issues with the expanded Panama
Our very first Congress singled out the domestic U.S. Merchant Marine as essential to our economy and national defense. That is why, from the beginnings of
By Benjamin Moll If you are involved in the tug boat industry in any way, whether by profession or peripherally, You have heard of or seen the striped stacks
A team of NOAA researchers today confirmed the discovery just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate strait of the 1910 shipwreck SS Selja and an unidentified
WASHINGTON – The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the voice of the domestic American maritime industry, released the following statement and fact versus
By Matt Fuhrman After observing the results of 5,000+ interviews and analyzing the patterns of who gets hired and who does not, here are the top 10 ways
The discovery of 35 Afghani Sikhs in a shipping container in the port of Tilbury, UK, has sent shockwaves through the British media, as the realization of how
On June 24, 2014, various news sources reported that the Department of Commerce (“DOC”) had allowed two companies to export processed condensate,
The Fair Artemis’s cargo and sudden disappearance fit the profile of the well-organized tanker hijackings that have plagued the Gulf of Guinea in recent
By Thomas Allegretti, Chairman, American Maritime
By K. Denise Rucker Krepp The Maritime Administration hosted a symposium recently in preparation for drafting a new national maritime strategy. Like the
West Africa is home to the world’s most violent pirates—who are now capable of overwhelming armed guards. Last month pirates killed a crewmember during an
By Anthony Russell As Russian forces took Crimea in late February, commentators repeatedly emphasized the Ukrainian peninsula’s strategic importance as a
By Major Bryan Abell, USMCR I am not an expert on maritime piracy, nor am I an expert on West Africa. So seven months ago when our Stanford team
By Brian Beckcom As I write, reports indicate that at least 100 people are confirmed dead in the latest foreign maritime disaster, the South Korean ferry
By Wei Chen, R&D Manager, Waste Water Systems, Wa?rtsila? In 2013, fines incurred under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
by Gary Shigenaka (NOAA) – A popular myth exists that it is bad luck to rename a boat. It is unclear whether this applies to “boats” as big as
Seafarers transiting the Indian Ocean and South China Sea have been urged by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) to listen out for maritime satellite
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