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[By Grant Holmes, Inchcape Shipping Services Global VP Cruise Solutions] Had it not been for my intense desire to travel, I may well have ended up as shipyard engineer. As a youngster I completed an apprenticeship in shipbuilding at HMS Dockyard in Portsmouth but chose instead a career in leisure and...

PT. Graha Trisaka Industri, has awarded tug design contracts to Robert Allan Ltd. for a RAmparts 3200-W and a TRAktor 3200-V. The tugs will be built and operated by Taiwan Navigation Co. Ltd. under a long-term charter contract for CPC Corporation, Taiwan. PT. Graha Trisaka Industri is an affiliate...

A bio-based industry likely to boom soon uses loose DNA in seawater, or environmental DNA, to measure presence and abundance of marine species. Animals in water inevitably shed their eDNA into it. Surveyors have traditionally monitored sea life by observing seafood markets and trawl nets, diving...