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Excerpt from August 6 Press Release from Wärtsilä: Wärtsilä-Hyundai Engine Company Ltd., the new joint venture between Wärtsilä and Hyundai

UK’s International Boundary Research Unit from the University of Durham has released a detailed map showing maritime jurisdiction and boundaries for the

Welcome to this 122nd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 72 here. (Published 20 August 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

Passengers aboard the P&O cruiser ‘Pacific Sun’ got a little more than they bargained for when the vessel got caught in the middle of a

Head over to IMC Broker’s blog to find a really good guide to tanker sizes. From Handy to ULCC this guide has pictures, descriptions and dead weight

Welcome to this 121st edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 71 here. (Published 13 August 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

Is it just me, or does something seem out of place here? Located in the middle of Hong Kong’s largest private housing estate, Whompoa Garden, this cruise

Photo By Tom Jervis Last year Sid Martin, Director of Technology at Northeast Maritime Institute was faced with a dilemma. He had been hired to spearhead a

gCaptain just returned from a whirlwind tour of San Francisco with the Northeast Maritime Institute’s Golden Shellback development team. Highlighting the

Welcome to this 120th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 70 here. (Published 6 August 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

We know that Friday is not gCaptain’s most popular day of the week so today’s nautical quiz should be an easy on. At least for those of you who

How would you rate the TWIC process? ( surveys) . How would you rate your experience getting a TWIC Card? Leave your comments below. Procrastinating? Check out

1. Who developed this coating? a. Northeast Maritime Institute in Fairhaven, MA USA has an engineering group under its sister company Transportation Security

Our friends at theboaters.com have came up with a fun game called “Complete The Caption”. Each day they post a new photo submitted by their users

Welcome to this 119th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 69 here. (Published 30 July 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

Photo from New Launch Even if you are thousands of miles from the nearest land you probably didn’t miss the big news in the technology world this week;

Our favorite competitor in professional mariner news, Marine-Buzz.com, recently had an exceptional post on maritime technology used to launch rockets into

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Announcing a new feature of gCaptain’s Tools Section… Event Calendars! We have scoured the web for all the events, conferences and exhibitions in

Maritime Global Net tells us: Cruise West’s Spirit of Glacier Bay is reported to have run aground in Glacier Bay. The US Coastguard is attending the