• OPINION | The choppy seas and non-dialogue of US-China relations

    OPINION | The choppy seas and non-dialogue of US-China relations

  • COLUMN | Saudi Arabia Update: OPEC, Ronaldo and NEOM – Oil, soccer and death sentences make macabre combination [Offshore Accounts]

    COLUMN | Saudi Arabia Update: OPEC, Ronaldo and NEOM – Oil, soccer and death sentences make macabre combination [Offshore Accounts]

  • OPINION | India and Australia should join forces to support maritime security in the Pacific

    OPINION | India and Australia should join forces to support maritime security in the Pacific

  • MEPS WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Blue Whale – LNG bunkering ship to serve South Korean market

    VESSEL REVIEW | Blue Whale – LNG bunkering ship to serve South Korean market

  • MEPS WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Evpatiy Kolovrat – Large icebreaker handed over to Russian Navy

    VESSEL REVIEW | Evpatiy Kolovrat – Large icebreaker handed over to Russian Navy

  • OPINION | The choppy seas and non-dialogue of US-China relations
  • COLUMN | Saudi Arabia Update: OPEC, Ronaldo and NEOM – Oil, soccer and death sentences make macabre combination [Offshore Accounts]
  • OPINION | India and Australia should join forces to support maritime security in the Pacific
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Blue Whale – LNG bunkering ship to serve South Korean market
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Evpatiy Kolovrat – Large icebreaker handed over to Russian Navy
    OPINION | The choppy seas and non-dialogue of US-China relations

    OPINION | The choppy seas and non-dialogue of US-China relations

    By Graeme Dobell

    In the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, June 3, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) ship and a US Navy ship came within 150 yards (137 metres) of a collision. The US says the Chinese warship crossed the bow of the US destroyer in an “unsafe” manoeuvre that “violated the maritime ‘rules of the ..

    COLUMN | Saudi Arabia Update: OPEC, Ronaldo and NEOM – Oil, soccer and death sentences make macabre combination [Offshore Accounts]

    COLUMN | Saudi Arabia Update: OPEC, Ronaldo and NEOM – Oil, soccer and death sentences make macabre combination [Offshore Accounts]

    By Hieronymus Bosch

    By the time you read this, OPEC will likely have finished a meeting to determine whether further production cuts are needed to stabilise the price of crude, which closed above US$75 per barrel on Friday. It was up five per cent on that one day, as traders bet that the oil producers’ cartel will announce another reduction ..

    OPINION | India and Australia should join forces to support maritime security in the Pacific

    OPINION | India and Australia should join forces to support maritime security in the Pacific

    By Prakash Gopal

    Ricky Ponting, one of the most successful captains of an Australian cricket team, once described his mindset at the batting crease: “In my head, I don’t see the fielders. I only see the gaps.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Papua New Guinea last month was his second to the Pacific islands ..

    BOOK REVIEW | Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story

    BOOK REVIEW | Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story

    By Neil Baird

    Once your reviewer gained the strength to lift its 500, bigger than A4, hard-covered pages, he not so much read this book as devoured it. It is a brilliant and priceless maritime history. It will ensure that its readers are entertained for at least a week and informed for decades. Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) needs no ..

    BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
    AWARDS 2022 | Best Crabber – Ugjit Mijua’ji’jg – Navanex & Chantier Naval Forillon

    AWARDS 2022 | Best Crabber – Ugjit Mijua’ji’jg – Navanex & Chantier Naval Forillon

    By Baird Maritime

    Best Crabber – Ugjit Mijua’ji’jg – Navanex & Chantier Naval Forillon Here is a comparatively simple but truly multi-purpose fishing vessel that can readily adapt from trawling to potting for crabs. Obviously, its primary target will be high-value crabs, but given the vessel’s ownership, it will be very useful ..

    MEPS WEEK
    FEATURE | Marine fuel flow monitoring may be done virtually with aid of new sensor

    FEATURE | Marine fuel flow monitoring may be done virtually with aid of new sensor

    By Baird Maritime Gear Editor

    Swedish technology company Cetasol has developed a new type of virtual sensor for fuel flow measurement. The CetaFuel sensor can accurately measure properties without requiring physical sensors. Cetafuel said this technology can replace traditional and expensive fuel flow meters, making fuel monitoring more accessible and ..

    Focus on Marine Engines and Propulsion Systems

    Focus on Marine Engines and Propulsion Systems

    Readers of Baird Maritime know that marine engines and propulsion systems are regularly featured on these pages. This time, though, we devote another feature week to thes ..

    Passenger Vessel News Roundup | June 7 – Russian and French Polynesian ferries, a hybrid European river cruise ship and more

    Passenger Vessel News Roundup | June 7 – Russian and French Polynesian ferries, a hybrid European river cruise ship and more

    By Baird Maritime

    Deliveries include a catamaran ferry for a French Polynesian operator, a commuter hydrofoil for Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, a rail ferry to serve the Russian Far East, ..

    Over 60 evacuated following ferry fire in Glacier Bay, Alaska

    Over 60 evacuated following ferry fire in Glacier Bay, Alaska

    By Baird Maritime

    The US Coast Guard and various partner agencies have successfully rescued all 51 passengers plus 16 crewmembers from a ferry in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park a ..

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