P&I club executives plan to create new marine insurer

Major P&I merger set to go ahead

Get ready for a new name in P&I: NorthStandard. Two major players in the marine mutual insurance market — North P&I and Standard Club — are to go ahead with the merger

Winning design in student ferry design competition

Student ferry design competition winners receive awards

The Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) has presented awards to the finalists in its student ferry design competition, now in its ninth year. Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, WFSA’s executive director, said the specifications

Columbia-class execs

HII names Brandi Smith VP of Columbia-class program

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that Brandi Smith has been named vice president of the Columbia-class program at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. She succeeds Charles Southall, who will retire July 1

floating offshore wind turbine

BOEM moves forward on California offshore wind

The Business Network for Offshore Wind reports that development on the West Coast took a major step forward today with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s release of a Proposed Sale Notice

All Aboard Alliance logo

New initiative aims to make maritime more attractive for new generations of talent

Launched at a meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, this week, the All Aboard Alliance has been formed to pave the way for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive maritime industry. The All Aboard Alliance

crew shortages are growing says Danica CEO

Crew shortages are driving up seafarer wages

The Ukrainian conflict, sanctions against Russia, and new COVID-19 outbreaks in the Far East are all impacting global crewing levels, says Henrik Jensen, CEO of Danica Crewing Specialists. And with crew shortages

River container vessel

River container vessel project reports progress

Plans for a new all-water container-on-vessel (COV) trade lane between the Port of Plaquemines on the Lower Mississippi and the Midwest continue to move along. A key part of the plan, which

methane slip reducer

WinGD introduces on-engine iCER

Winterthur, Switzerland, headquartered low-speed gas and diesel engine developer WinGD has introduced an on-engine version of its Intelligent Control by Exhaust Recycling (iCER) emissions reduction system. Designed to reduce methane slip emissions

NTSB report report implicates cell phone use

NTSB determines cause of $8.22 million containership fire

An incorrectly installed section of main engine fuel oil return tubing led to an engine room fire aboard a containership off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, the National Transportation Safety Board

Scrubber barge

Scrubber barge will clean up emissions from ships in California ports

A self-propelled, scrubber barge vessel being built to to capture and treat exhaust stack emissions vessels in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is to have a Schottel propulsion system.

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