[ad_1] The Naval Historical Foundation's new monthly naval history program featuring presenters and topics you will want to make time for! Following in the wake of our Annual Meeting's Leighton Lecture, "Hollywood and History in the Battle of the Atlantic," we were heartened not only by Dr....
[ad_1] The ratings agency Moody's has downgraded its forecast for the deep-sea shipping industry this year, and it now expects that earnings will contract by as much as 18 percent compared with 2019. "We now expect the aggregate EBITDA of rated shipping companies to fall by...
[ad_1] The U.S. maritime industry offers significant opportunity for U.S. or foreign shipowners, lenders and investors. With massive coastlines on three sides and the largest inland water river system in the middle, the world’s largest economy has a dynamic maritime system that stretches from government...
[ad_1] The recognized government of Yemen and an array of civil society groups are adding their voices to the call to salvage and remove the FSO Safer, a decaying single-hull tanker that has been storing the same cargo of crude oil in her tanks since...
[ad_1] Just over a week after resuming operations in the Central Mediterranean, the migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking has declared a "state of emergency" onboard due to a spate of attempted suicides. Ocean Viking took aboard 180 maritime migrants in a series of rescues from June...
[ad_1] A cargo vessel was the latest target of pirates in the waters off Benin. This attack came just one day after reports of an even more brazen attack on a vessel in the oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea. In the latest incident, security...
[ad_1] David Loy Stewart Sr, 72, of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, the former owner and chairman of Detyens Shipyards, passed away on Tuesday, June 30. Loy was born September 15, 1947 in Abbeville, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman University with a Bachelor of Arts degree...
[ad_1] [By Dr Mark J. Valencia] On June 26, the leaders of the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held their 36th annual summit by video conference. The pandemic was the main topic of discussions. Also high on the agenda was the South China Sea conundrum....
[ad_1] The livestock carrier Al Messilah has been delayed at the port of East London, South Africa due to a legal dispute over whether she may load a cargo of South African sheep. The South African National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
[ad_1] In the middle of the ongoing pandemic, ferry company Stena Line has confirmed that the construction of their two new larger E-Flexer ferries has begun in Weihai, China. The vessels were ordered in 2018 and the delivery is expected in 2022. Stena Line has...
