Editorial

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

By Roger King, CreditSights (re-published with permission via Castalia Blog) Separated at birth: The Reasonable Man and GAAP. Somewhere along the line, lease

While piracy has dominated the headlines in recent years, maritime security in Africa entails many other aspects. Illegal fishing, smuggling and human

By Rick Spilman, International Salt, a major salt company, has just about run out of salt to supply the State of New Jersey.  The salt is used to control

By Jessica Knight, Nigeria and its coastal neighbors face a grave security problem in the form of rising maritime crime and militancy in the Gulf of Guinea –

By Captain Richard Madden, Those on deep-sea vessels frequently overlook the lessons learned from brown-water and fishing vessels.  This is unfortunate as it

By Surfline/Buoyweather Chief Meteorologist Mark Willis By now you have likely seen the media coverage of Jose Salvador’s story. If not, Jose is the famous