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The charred wreck of the Philippine ferry June Aster. The vessel caught fire while underway off Palawan province on the late evening of September 9, 2026. Seventy-seven people who were on the ferry perished in the tragedy while 43 were rescued and another eight remain unaccounted for as of September 28, 2026.
Accidents

Philippine officials link fatal ferry fire to unsecured chemical cargo

Will Xavier
Salmon farm
Aquaculture

Bakkafrost Scotland operating loss widens to £58.1 million in 2025

Gareth Havelock
Suction dredger (representative photo only) Pixabay
Dredging

Report records 12 illegal dredger visits in one night on Vietnam's Lam River

Jens Karsten
An Exail USV for ISR missions
Unmanned Security Systems

French-built unmanned boats to support US Navy counter-drone research, US Coast Guard testing

Will Xavier
Security Vessel News Roundup | October 20 – US foreign military sales boat orders, German naval infantry craft and more
Security

Security Vessel News Roundup | October 20 – US foreign military sales boat orders, German naval infantry craft and more

Baird Maritime
Naming ceremony of Th'ailib, an MISC-owned LNG carrier with a 174-000-cubic-metre capacity
Gas

MISC exercises options for five additional LNG carriers to be built in China

Jens Karsten
Royal Tern
PCC/PCTC

Wallenius Wilhelmsen takes delivery of second methanol dual-fuel PCTC in series

Gareth Havelock
The ocean liner United States in the mid-1950s (colorised version of a black and white photograph by an unknown author)
Passenger

Decommissioned ocean liner United States scheduled for reef deployment off Florida in November

Jens Karsten
Rendering of the floating dry dock
Other Workboats

Dutch design firm completes 250m floating dry dock concept

Gareth Havelock
Visualisation of USVs utilising a counter-UAS mission equipment package
Unmanned Security Systems

US War Department offers $40m for production-ready, counter-drone boats

Will Xavier
Mowi salmon farm
Aquaculture

Mowi Q3 operating income reaches $308m on record 186,000-tonne salmon harvest

Jens Karsten
Sea of Treasures cover
Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEW | Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade

Dr Neil Baird
Dredging works at the Cay Dua dam area in Vietnam
Dredging

Vietnam's Gia Lai nears completion of Ha Thanh River dredging

Alan Bosworth
Pembroke Dock, Wales
Ports & Terminals

Celtic Freeport approves $12.2m for Pembroke floating wind quayside upgrades

Alan Bosworth
Yanbu terminal, Saudi Arabia
Tankers

Oil prices rise as fresh Houthi strikes on Saudi targets rattle nerves

Reuters
Ship-launched variant of Kongsberg's naval strike missile
Weaponry

Denmark orders more naval strike missiles in $42m deal

Alan Bosworth
Forties Unity riser in the UK North Sea
Drilling & Production

Apache UK offshore workers gear up for 24-hour strike over pay

Reuters
Hanwha Philly Shipyard
Shipbuilding

Financing dispute stalls South Korea's $150b US shipbuilding initiative, delaying Hanwha Philly expansion

Alan Bosworth
Bulk carriers in the port of Paranagua, Brazil
Bulkers

Stronger Capesize rates lift Baltic index after 10-day slide

Reuters
Mangalia shipyard in Romania
Shipbuilding

Rheinmetall and MSC win $155m Romanian shipyard bid

Alan Bosworth
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