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Quick updates: Bourbon vessel sales; Kotug buys Vortex; Atlantic Towing sold to J. P. Morgan; IWS and Dong Fang order more windfarm support ships [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Quick updates: Bourbon vessel sales; Kotug buys Vortex; Atlantic Towing sold to J. P. Morgan; IWS and Dong Fang order more windfarm support ships [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
COLUMN | Stop in the name of the law! Argentina and the Falklands; Navitas and the Sea Lion project; Bluewater’s Aoka Mizu and OGX-1 [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Stop in the name of the law! Argentina and the Falklands; Navitas and the Sea Lion project; Bluewater’s Aoka Mizu and OGX-1 [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
The pure car and truck carrier Felicity Ace after it was damaged by an onboard fire while off Portugal's Azores region on February 16, 2022. The ship, which was ultimately abandoned, had electric vehicles fitted with lithium-ion batteries among its embarked cargo on the day of the incident. The exact cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Shipping

COLUMN | The hazards of our all-electric future: detailing the risks of battery transport by sea [Grey Power]

Michael Grey
Kurtarma 10, an emergency response tug of the Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety Pexels
Harbour Tugs and Operation

COLUMN | Being careful out there: understanding crew health risks and rising threats to maritime rescuers [Tug Times]

Alan Loynd
COLUMN | 2020 Bulkers becomes AHTS AS – Norwegian casino capitalism benefits the promoters as anchor handlers surge in a Drew Barrymore-like comeback [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | 2020 Bulkers becomes AHTS AS – Norwegian casino capitalism benefits the promoters as anchor handlers surge in a Drew Barrymore-like comeback [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
The fast ferry SH-Galata 2 underway in the Bosphorus Strait just outside Istanbul
Ferry

COLUMN | Science versus subversion: dispelling claims of "magic hulls" that promise improved efficiency [Aft Lines]

John Kecsmar
COLUMN | Arrested development: Mexican-connected ships in the firing line for arrest and detention [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Arrested development: Mexican-connected ships in the firing line for arrest and detention [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
COLUMN | Great expectation: Venezuela's curious oil deal with NABEP as Chevron goes full throttle on Caracas [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Great expectation: Venezuela's curious oil deal with NABEP as Chevron goes full throttle on Caracas [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika
Shipping

COLUMN | Understanding nuclear-powered ship development and its accompanying risks [Grey Power]

Michael Grey
COLUMN | Rein me in: Alphard Maritime – Strait of Hormuz pressure and firefighting shambles revealed [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Rein me in: Alphard Maritime – Strait of Hormuz pressure and firefighting shambles revealed [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
The 23,000TEU container vessel ANL Kokoda, the first ship of a proposed 12-strong Australian "strategic fleet"
Container Shipping

COLUMN | Where there is no vision, the people will perish: a look at cancers hindering Australia's maritime potential [An Innocent Australian]

Stuart Ballantyne
COLUMN | I have nothing, nothing: Scotland and Tasmania ferry fiascos; New Zealand shipping and emergency towage woes; Oman's dark fleet tanker dilemma; Chinese overfishing off Guinea-Bissau [Offshore Accounts]
Shipping

COLUMN | I have nothing, nothing: Scotland and Tasmania ferry fiascos; New Zealand shipping and emergency towage woes; Oman's dark fleet tanker dilemma; Chinese overfishing off Guinea-Bissau [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
Surveyors inspect the punctured hull of the offshore support vessel Thunder after it was accidentally struck by the bulk carrier Bunun Queen just south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on July 22, 2022. Investigators found that at the time of the collision, Bunun Queen's master and second officer were both engaged in non-navigational tasks instead of maintaining a proper lookout as required by international law.
Accidents

COLUMN | Lessons from outside the bubble: what the shipping industry could learn about safety from other sectors [Grey Power]

Michael Grey
COLUMN | Quick updates: tanker bonanza: Euronav and Frontline sell VLCCs and invest in offshore; sinking Suezmax threatens Oman [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Quick updates: tanker bonanza: Euronav and Frontline sell VLCCs and invest in offshore; sinking Suezmax threatens Oman [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
COLUMN | Summer Shorts 2026: The Odyssey; You Can't Win; the Nord Stream conspiracy; fake tan/fake ministry [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Summer Shorts 2026: The Odyssey; You Can't Win; the Nord Stream conspiracy; fake tan/fake ministry [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
Some of the plastic nurdles that are believed to have originated from a stack of containers that had fallen overboard from the feeder ship BG Orange at the Port of Tyne in the UK on July 19, 2026. The containers fell after BG Orange was accidentally struck by the wind turbine installation vessel Wind Orca as the latter was manoeuvring to depart the port on the said date.
Shipping

COLUMN | Transporting hazardous cargo: are today's shippers taking on too much risk? [Grey Power]

Michael Grey
Application of finite element analysis in the design of a vessel's hull
Shipping

COLUMN | Finite element analysis software: understanding its limitations and why engineering judgment still matters [Aft Lines]

John Kecsmar
COLUMN | End of the road or a new beginning? Global Marine Group, Orange and the global cable opportunity [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | End of the road or a new beginning? Global Marine Group, Orange and the global cable opportunity [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
COLUMN | Flip, flip, flip: DOF sells to Uthalden, Fredriksen sells to DOF, Borealis sells to both DOF and Uthalden [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Flip, flip, flip: DOF sells to Uthalden, Fredriksen sells to DOF, Borealis sells to both DOF and Uthalden [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
Firefighters work to extinguish the blaze on the Turkish-flagged LPG tanker Orinda after it was hit by a Russian drone at the Port of Izmail in Ukraine, November 17, 2025.
Shipping

COLUMN | Seafarers: another category of non-combatants who always seem to be in the line of fire [Grey Power]

Michael Grey
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