New Excel-class Carnival ship will be a sister to Mardi Gras

VIDEO: Carnival’s Mardi Gras arrives at Port Canaveral

Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras made her U.S. debut June 4, docking for the first time at Port Canaveral’s Cruise Terminal 3, built specifically for this vessel which is the first cruise

Capsized SEACOR Power on the evening of the accident, with a Coast Guard response boat in the foreground. [U.S. Coast Guard photograph]

SEACOR Power: Owners file to limit liability

As widely expected, the owners of the capsized liftboat SEACOR Power have filed suit seeking to limit their liability in the fatal April 13 incident in which all but six of the

Euronav stack insignia

Euronav books $9.3 million gain on sale of oldie

Antwerp-headquartered tanker giant Euronav NV (NYSE: EURN) has sold the oldest conventional vessel in its fleet, the 2002-built, 149,989 dwt Suezmax Filikon, for $16.3 million. The company will record a capital gain

Nico De Golia, director of global sustainability and corporate citizenship

Crowley joins Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative

Crowley Maritime Corporation has become the first U.S.-owned ship owner-operator that will publicly disclose its ship recycling policies, practices and process through the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI) website. It is the

Shipping CEOs to IMO: We need massive decarbonization R&D fund

The CEOs of 17 major container and RO/RO carriers—including Thomas Crowley, owner & CEO, Crowley Maritime, and Matthew J. Cox, Chairman & CEO, Matson Inc.—have written an open letter to the International

Burned out shell of containership seen from air

X-Press Pearl: Environmentalists file lawsuit

As the smoldering remains of the containership X-Press Pearl settle into the sea, Sri Lanka’s Centre for Environmental Justice, which is associated with Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka, today filed a

Forward end of Offshore patrol cutter

Coast Guard budget request funds key shipbuilding programs

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

Burned out shell of containership seen from air

VIDEO: X-Press Pearl sinks at stern

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,

The cutting chain progresses along the pre-cut groove during operations to separate Section Three from the remaining Golden Ray wreck on Sunday. [

Golden Ray: Cutting and clean-up efforts continue

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

Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy.

U.S. joins Denmark and Norway to lead new push for zero-emission shipping

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

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