Events

Last year gCaptain was lucky enough to attend the inaugural Maritime Congressional Sail-In in Washington, D.C. and it was a truly unique experience.  This is

The sustainable shipping watchdog website ShippingEfficiency.org will be hosting its second webinar tomorrow, March 17.  The webinar aims to educate

Identifying and unlocking the barriers to a greener supply chain. Tickets £95 The Carbon War Room Shipping Operation, in partnership with

This week the gCaptain team is in New Orleans attending the annual International WorkBoat Show.  The show is huge, with thousands of visitors from all over

Here at gCaptain.com, we are big proponents of safety in the workplace and often times for us professional mariners, that means reporting on technologies that

San Francisco’s 2010 Fleet Week kicked off today with the Blue Angels performing “Circle & Arrival” maneuvers over the entire Bay.  Not

Here at gCaptain.com, we are VERY happy to learn that Captain Alwin Landry has won the Lloyd’s List’s coveted Shipmaster of the Year Award 2010. 

Every October 15th, the blogosphere combines forces and participates in what’s called Blog Action Day.  The premise being to raise awareness and trigger

We are proud to announce that gCaptain’s founder and editor in chief, John Konrad, got a book deal! The upcoming book titled Fire on the Horizon: The

In Section 4 of BP’s Investigation report on the Horizon disaster, they discuss the negative pressure test as a possible missed indication of a

This photo comes to gCaptain via Burning Man 2010, the annual week long art event ending on Labor Day on a dry lake bed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. 

Click image for high resolution This weeks ship photo comes to us from the 18th annual running of the Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition held at

U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA2 Matt Schofield This week’s photo is brought to us by members from Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles.  Here they watch as

President Obama brings us the following message for Maritime Day 2010: Even before our Nation declared independence, our forebears recognized the importance of

Last week I was in Washington, D.C. attending the first ever Maritime Congressional Sail-In. The purpose of the event was to increase awareness of the

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; May 6, 2010) Crowley Maritime Corporation and its employees this week donated $80,000 to the American Red Cross in support of Haiti relief

THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH AND THE EFFECTS OF PLASTIC DEBRIS IN OUR OCEANS Part of the Milstein Science Series At The American Museum of Natural History

Arriving in the office this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see a particular email sitting in my inbox.  It was a message from Shipserv, the leading

In Search of Excellence The International Dynamic Positioning Operators Association (IDPOA) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural International

Every year, the International Maritime Organization chooses a theme for its World Maritime Day, which is generally celebrated during the last week in