Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line has taken delivery of its second Excel-class cruise ship following construction at Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku. Like its earlier siste ..

Baird Maritime resumes its regular vessel feature weeks for this year by focusing once more on the ever-expanding passenger vessel sector. This week’s lineup of reviewe ..

A judge of the High Court of Hong Kong has rejected calls for a coroner’s inquest into a highly-publicised maritime incident in 2012 wherein two passenger ferries c ..

US naval forces in the Middle East have intercepted a fishing trawler smuggling more than 50 tons (45 tonnes) of ammunition rounds, fuses, and propellants for rockets in ..

Nine US Navy sailors suffered minor injuries after a fire ignited on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday, November 29. The navy said ..

Indonesia is a country of 17,500 islands with 80,000 kilometres of coastline. It is therefore a nation that needs to place considerable emphasis upon maritime security. T ..

UAE-based Grandweld Shipyards has delivered four new tugs in a series to Specialities Construction for General Trading and Contracting Company, a marine services company ..

In past columns we have looked at the battle of the subsea robots (here) and the struggle to win subsidies to fund future fuel initiatives (here). This week we look at fi ..

One person was killed after a tug that was assisting in the mooring of an arriving cruise ship sank off the Greek island of Patmos on Friday, October 21. Two crewmembers ..

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries (NOAA Fisheries) have crafted a joint strategy to addres ..

This latest roundup focuses on the offshore wind support sector. Construction is nearly complete on a new servicing and maintenance vessel for a Norwegian owner while wor ..

An Indonesian owner will welcome a new stationary dredger to its fleet early next year and a Danish operator will soon deploy a survey boat for harbour support work in Co ..

Netherlands-based Neptune Marine has completed construction of a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ordered by Antwerp-based mining company the Sibelco Group for ..

Associated British Ports (ABP) has awarded UK construction company McLaughlin and Harvey the design and build contract for its Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) at ..

A joint venture between Dutch marine projects companies the Boskalis Group and Dutch Dredging has been awarded a contract to further deepen a 68-kilometre-long stretch of ..

Early in the year 1992, a tender arrived on my desk from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). This looked exciting. I opened the tender documents to see what sort of naval ve ..

Nine US Navy sailors suffered minor injuries after a fire ignited on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday, November 29. The navy said ..

Professional sailing team Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) has begun operational sailings of a new hydrogen-powered, catamaran foiling chase boat prototype. Named Chase Z ..