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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock takes delivery of subsea rock installation vessel conceived for offshore energy projects
Houston – Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, has taken delivery of Acadia, a cutting-edge Jones
CSL Advances on ESG Goals in 2025 Sustainability Report
CSL has released its 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, highlighting continued progress in environmental performance and responsible operations across its global business. “Sustainability is fundamental to how
Port Saint John 2025 annual report highlights modernization and container growth
Port Saint John released its 2025 Annual Report, Foundation Forged: From Investment to Impact, at its Annual General Meeting today, highlighting the completion of major
Dredging works near Second Narrows at Port of Vancouver expected to start later this year
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is moving ahead with plans to dredge near Second Narrows in Burrard Inlet, with federal regulatory approval now in place.
Canada’s National Maritime Group appoints Debbie Murray as President and CEO
Ottawa – The National Maritime Group has announced the appointment of Debbie Murray as President and Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned public affairs professional with
Halifax Port Authority adopts Datifex’s OneHarbour™ situational awareness solution for harbour management
Datifex, a 2026 NATO DIANA Innovator cohort member, has signed a Managed Service Agreement with the Halifax Port Authority (HPA) to bring OneHarbour™ to Port
World Shipping Council releases report showing increase in containers lost at sea
The World Shipping Council has released its annual Containers Lost at Sea Report, showing that an estimated 1,478 containers were lost at sea in 2025
World container rates soar to 22-month high
The Drewry World Container Index (WCI), the benchmark widely referenced by procurement teams, jumped 5% this week to $4,166 per 40ft container, supported by an
Minister Anandasangaree announces $816M investment to strengthen Canada’s maritime security in the Great Lakes
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON – Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree today highlighted an $816M investment over seven years to strengthen maritime security and expand the Canadian Coast Guard‘s
IMO pauses evacuation in Strait of Hormuz following attack
Following an attack on a vessel in the Gulf of Oman, IMO has decided to temporarily pause its evacuation operation pending further clarity. IMO Secretary-General
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On our Forum: New Year thoughts on supporting seafarers and… handling fanatics
By Michael Grey* It’s New Year’s Eve, when people of kindly disposition wish each other the hope that the coming twelve months might be happy,
On our Forum: Crew needs come last in revolutionary new ship shapes
By Michael Grey* In the compromise that dictates the design of a ship, you don’t have to be cynical to observe that the needs of
On our Forum: Will there be any sea left?
By Michael Grey* As the governmental delegates to Cop26, safely delivered home after their Scottish excursion, start to work out how they can deliver their
On our Forum: The real cause of the supply chain quagmires…
By Michael Grey* It is funny how different items of news mesh with each other. Cop 26 is over, thank goodness and the thousands of
On our Forum: Shipmasters deserve greatest respect for difficult decisions made in stormy conditions
By Michael Grey* In this world where virtue-signalling competes with the need to blame everyone, maybe we should not be surprised at the growing enthusiasm
On our Forum
The shipping industry needs to set ambitious targets to help prevent global climate catastrophe, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) cautions in a new position
On our Forum: Seafarers and truckers: supply chain’s most vulnerable providers
By Michael Grey* “Am I a man – or an animal?” This was a question dramatically posed by a huge Sicilian lorry driver on a
On our Forum: Stranger than fiction in a world ‘not far short of chaos’
By Michael Grey* Will what we used to think of as “normal” ever return? Black swans used to be rare, but now they are coming
The many challenges to one-man bridge operations (Forum)
By Michael Grey* The results of an inquest in the UK on the deaths caused by a tram coming off the rails gave one
Carbon recycled methane can be recognized as zero-emission ship fuel according to new study (Forum)
The “Ship Carbon Recycling Working Group (WG)” of Japan’s Carbon Capture & Reuse (CCR) Study Group has confirmed that carbon recycled methane produced by
Marine salvage expertise must not decline… (Forum)
By Michael Grey* These are tough times for the professional salvor, with concern being expressed about weak revenues and worries about capacity. To the casual
Of congestion, ships and crews
I have always been terribly enthused by Oliver St.John Gogarty’s poem The Ship and its first stanza – “A ship from Valparaiso came/ And
Justifying the unjustifiable on inhuman seafarer crisis… (forum)
By Michael Grey* Nobody should be surprised that there has been something of a fight back by ship operators after the World Maritime
Shipping’s nightmare with the Gulf of Guinea pirates (Forum)
By Michael Grey* There will be few seafarers today who sail off to the Gulf of Guinea with a light heart and cheerful demeanour,
A Captain caught after a slaughter at sea (Forum)
Taiwanese Ping Shin 101 on which occurred the murders at sea described in this gut wretching article by investigative reporter Ian Urbina*. Photo Credit: Fish-I Africa The men are helpless
Clean Shipping Alliance scrubs away at ICCT report on Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems
Following the release of a report by environmental group ICCT, the Clean Shipping Alliance expresses its concern about the wrong perception of Exhaust Gas
80% of ports do not reap the benefits of digitalization according to Innovez-One (Forum)
Innovez One, one of the world’s leading providers of port management software for the world’s busiest ports and towage operators, stated that of the
Five percent zero emission fuels by 2030 needed for Paris-aligned shipping decarbonization (Forum)
The ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030.
The Mask of Cassandra (Forum)
By Michael Grey* Nearly a year into the wretched pandemic and it is difficult to determine any real cheer amid the winter snow. Some
Provincial government investments should give priority to Made in Canada ships (FORUM)
Ottawa – The Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA) has expressed concern over provincial governments ordering vessels overseas rather than giving such business to
The Poseidon Principles Disclosure Report is good, but the disclosure could have been better (Forum)
In December 2020, the signatories of the Poseidon Principles—currently twenty large banks—released their first Annual Disclosure Report. As the first paragraph of the report says: