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Video: Spain Blocks Maersk Tanker Over STS Transfer Involving Ex-Russian Ship
Sanctions enforcement on a remote interaction with a once-Russian vessel sends a stern message The Elephant (orange trackline) meets up with the ex-Russian tanker Nobel (red) off Ceuta, then joins Maersk Magellan (green) (Courtesy Pole Star) In a sign of increasing regulatory interest in Russian ship-to-ship petroleum transfers, Spanish authorities…
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Blue Sky Maritime’s David Cummins to keynote TTB 2023
David Cummins, president and CEO of the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition—a non-profit, strategic alliance formed to accelerate the transition of waterborne transportation in Canada and the United States toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions—will keynote this year’s Tugs, Towboats & Barges (TTB) conference on March 7 in Mobile, Ala. Blue Sky…
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China Coast Guard Uses Laser to Drive Off Philippine Supply Convoy
The Philippine Coast Guard has accused the China Coast Guard of interfering once again with a mission to resupply the Philippine Navy outpost on Second Thomas Shoal (Ayungin Shoal), this time with more aggressive techniques. The station on Second Thomas Shoal is a beached WWII-era Landing Ship Tank (LST), the…
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Video: U.S. Navy LCAC Makes Surprise Landing Near Myrtle Beach
Local residents and media outlets were surprised to see a U.S. Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) come ashore on a public beach in Cherry Grove, South Carolina on Thursday morning. The deafening arrival of a 180-ton, turbine-powered hovercraft surprised onlookers as the LCAC transited slowly through the surf zone…
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Containerships Damaged in Collision on Busy Vietnamese River
Two containerships navigating on Vietnam’s busy Long Tau River collided in the early hours of Saturday, February 11. While there were no injuries reported and no oil spill, both vessels suffered severe damage as well as a loss of cargo aboard the vessel operated by Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines. The…
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Boluda towage set to acquire Smit Lamnalco
In a move that will see it emerge as an even bigger international towage leader, the Boluda Towage division of Madrid headquartered Boluda Corporación Marítima reports that it has reached an agreement to acquire Netherlands-headquartered Smit Lamnalco. Owned 50/50 by Boskalis Group and Saudi Arabia’s Rezayat Group, Smit Lamnalco employs more than…
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Sanctioned Singapore oil and gas trader reacts to OFAC designation
On February 9, Singapore’s Unicious Energy Pte Ltd was among nine companies targeted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for facilitating the sale and shipment of petroleum and petrochemicals on behalf of Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd., which OFAC designated on January 23, 2020 for facilitating…
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TVA puts towboat up for online auction
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is auctioning off its 1985-built towboat Freedom on the govdeals.com online auction site. Built by Patti Industries Inc., the vessel has an overall length of 100 feet, beam of 28 feet and hull depth of 10 feet. Main propulsion power is provided by two Detroit Diesel DD16V-92…
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Italian Navy SDO-SuRS submarine rescue ship will feature Kongsberg propulsion solution
A new SDO-SuRS (Special and Diving Operations – Submarine Rescue Ship) to be built by the Italian shipyard T.Mariotti for the Italian Navy will feature a suite of Kongsberg solutions that includes a pair of Elegance propulsion pods. Kongsberg’s Elegance pod system aboard the SDO-SuRS combines the direct electric permanent magnet (PM) motor driven…
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Massachusetts SouthCoast Wind project moves another step forward
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced the availability of its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed SouthCoast Wind energy project offshore Massachusetts. Up until a name change on February 1, 2023, the project was called Mayflower Wind. It is backed by Shell New Energies and Ocean Winds North…
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