gCaptain – Maritime and Offshore News

By Michael Carr – Joint Base Balad Iraq is surrounded by sand. When you drive out its gates, all you see is sand. Sand blows onto the road, it

By Jonathan Saul and Collin Eaton LONDON/HOUSTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – At least three tankers are on their way to Asia with U.S. oil cargoes after

By Jake Spring and Marta Nogueira BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 24 (Reuters) – A thick sludge of crude oil has been washing up on vast stretches of

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Stockpiles of low-sulphur marine fuels held in floating storage around the Singapore trading and

Western Australia-based Austal has won an order to build a 115-meter high-speed catamaran for Danish ferry operator Molslinjen. The vessel will be the largest

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Offshore wind could become a cornerstone of the world’s power supply as steep cost reductions and

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday issued a nearly two-month waiver for companies to wind down transactions with a

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) –The U.S. has forfeited some $18 billion tied to oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico since 2000 because of a

New York has finalized contracts for two offshore wind projects that will generate a combined 1,700 megawatts of renewable energy for the state. New York

Finding new sustainable energy sources such as alcohol, biomethane and ammonia offers the shipping industry its best opportunity for reaching its net-zero

Finnish technology company Norsepower has confirmed fuel savings of more than 8 percent from a trial of its Rotor Sails onboard the Maersk Tankers product

By Brent Perry and Grant Brown, Sterling PBES Energy Solutions (SPBES) On October 11, 2019, an explosion rocked passenger ferry Ytterøyningen while dockside

By Francois de Beaupuy (Bloomberg) –French floating wind farm developer Eolfi SA is seeking new investors to fund the next stage of its expansion, people

By Josh Hutchinson, CEO of ARX Maritime Ever since their inception back in the 1920s, Flags of Convenience (FoC) have been a subject of no small amount of

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Container terminal operators are facing higher risks than at any time in the industry’s history, according to a new

A federal judge in Southern District of New York has issued a judgement for the forfeiture of a North Korean cargo vessel held by the U.S. since May over

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – From higher-quality paint to state-of-the-art propellers: shipping companies are looking in

Shortly after graduating SUNY Maritime College in 2000 I was required to enroll in a Bridge Resource Management before I could sail on my new US Coast Guard

Ship owners and operators who have opted to retrofit their vessels with Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems, aka scrubbers, to comply with the upcoming IMO 2020 low

The International Union of Marine Insurance says it’s time to take action to address an alarming number of containership fires occurring in 2019. So far

The first oil pumped from the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea has reached Mongstad, Norway where it will be prepared for shipping to markets around

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot has sent two more large-capacity, LNG-powered tankers through the Northern Sea Route. According to the company, the Aframax

The Unified Command responding to the overturned Golden Ray in St. Simons Sound, Georgia said the source of white smoke that was emanating from over the

By Firat Kayakiran and Olivia Konotey-Ahulu (Bloomberg) –China’s demand for crude oil shows no signs of abating. There are currently more supertankers

The joint venture operating icebreaking LNG carriers for Yamal LNG have been exempted from U.S. sanctions against COSCO tanker units, Russian natural gas