Highlights of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2022 budget request for the U.S. Coast Guard include $170 million to fund Polar Security Cutter program management and provide for long lead time materials
A virtually new containership that has been on fire off Sri Lanka since May 20 partially sank today, just as salvage efforts were seeming to show some progress. As we reported earlier,
After the setback that followed last month’s fire inside the Golden Ray wreck, cutting operations have continued as responders work to dismantle the remains of the capsized car carrier and remove them
Here’s another sign that the Biden administration is all on board with tougher shipping decarbonization goals. The governments of the United States, Denmark and Norway, along with the Global Maritime Forum and
“The Army Civil Works FY 2022 Budget—the highest annual budget ever requested for the Civil Works program—focuses on investments that yield high economic and environmental returns, while increasing resiliency to climate change,
The Biden administration has released its FY 2022 budget request. For many in the U.S. maritime industry, among the most significant programs to look at are those administered by the Department of
Following the fatal collisions with civilian ships involving the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain in the summer of 2017, the U.S. Navy found that sailor overwork, fatigue, and training
New measures likely to be adopted at the next meeting of IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) will need to be addressed by shipowners’ legal teams as well as their technical departments.
Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) said yesterday that it had received approval to resume sailings from the United States after more than a year of suspended operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. On
Sri Lanka TV news channels today showed the nearly new containership X-Press Pearl as still continuing to burn, despite firefighting efforts that are now in their eighth day. Pollution from the 2021-built,