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Leading from the Rear

The shipping industry has spent years trying to cultivate the notion of leadership onboard ships. There have been mentoring schemes, and STCW has even taken up the baton with a focus on leadership development and management. Now with this in place, the Swedish Club is apparently all set to use an upcoming Chinese Maritime [...]

April 11, 2013 | Posted in Shipping News | Read More »

Longshore worker recovering from minor injuries from containership mishap

From the March 28 News Tribune: A longshore worker was recovering from minor injuries Thursday he received while he was lashing down containers on a ship at the Port of Tacomas Husky Terminal Wednesday night. Port spokeswoman Tara Mattina said the worker apparently missed a step while climbing and fell to the ships deck. The [...]

April 8, 2013 | Posted in Shipping News | Read More »

Wärtsilä Awarded PSV Design Contract from Bumi Armada

Image (c) Wartsila Malaysia’s largest offshore supply vessel (OSV) operator, Bumi Armada, has just awarded Wrtsil the contract to design the series of four new build multi-purpose platform support vessels (MPSVs) they announced this past February. The vessels will be built by a subsidiary of Nam Cheong Limited, Malaysia’s largest builder of OSVs, in one [...]

April 8, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Senior Leadership from Ex-USS Guardian Fired

Lt. Cmdr. Mark Rice (left), and Lt. Daniel Tyler. US Navy Photo For the many thousands of people who have followed the story of the ex-USS Guardian which ran up in a Philippine Reef this past January, the fate of the ship’s captain, Lt. Cmdr. Mark Rice, seemed pretty clear. It was not a matter [...]

April 4, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Carnival Triumph Breaks Loose from Dock in Mobile, One Shipyard Worker Missing [UPDATE]

The Carnival Triumph seen resting against a cargo vessel at Signal International’s shipyard, April 3, 2013. The vessel pinned here is the Wheeler, a dredger operated by the United States Army Corps. of Engineers. U.S. Coast Guard Photo Update: Media reports indicate that the Carnival Triumph has been moved to the Alabama Cruise Terminal, the [...]

April 4, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Final Section of Wrecked Warship Removed from Philippine Reef

(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders/Not Released) By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders SULU SEA, The Philippines (March 30, 2013) U.S. Navy and contracted salvage personnel embarked onboard the U.S. Navy contracted crane vessel M/V Jascon 25 completed on March 30th, the removal of the grounded mine countermeasures [...]

March 30, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Bow Section Removed from Ex-USS Guardian [IMAGE]

The bow of the mine countermeasure ship Ex-Guardian (MCM 5) is removed by the crane vessel M/V Jascon 25 during operations March 26. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders) SULU SEA – U.S. Navy and contracted salvage personnel embarked aboard M/V Jascon 25 have begun dismantling and sectioning the hull [...]

March 27, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

MARAD Issues Warning of Potential Attack from Extremists

Via Osen-Hunter Defense Systems: The U.S. MARITIME ADMINISTRATION (MARAD) has issued a warning that extremists may attack ships in the following maritime domains: Gulf of Oman, North Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and the Bab Al-Mandab. MARAD recommends that vessels at anchor or transiting these areas at slow speed be particularly watchful. Vessels transiting these [...]

March 15, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Capital Shipmanagement’s First Boxship Newbuildings Arrive from Hyundai Heavy

M/V Alexandros, image: LR LR-classedAlexandrosandAristotelisare the first of five new 5,000 teu super-efficient new ships, all to be delivered from HHI Gunsan by June 2013, that sees Capital expand its operations into the container sector Capital Shipmanagement has marked the delivery of their new containerships,Alexandros(on charter asHyundai Prestige) andAristotelis(on charter asHyundai Premium) delivered at HHI [...]

March 13, 2013 | Posted in Featured | Read More »

Japan Confirms World’s First Gas Produced from Methane Hydrate Deposits

An aerial view of the drillship “Chikyu” in the Pacific, off Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, March 12, 2013. Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corp on Tuesday said it produced gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits for the first time in the world. Credit. REUTERS/Kyodo By Rakteem Katakey and Tsuyoshi Inajima (Bloomberg) — Japan and [...]