 | Ancient 2nd Century Roman Shipyard Unearthed by UK Archaeologists
A team of archaeologists led by the Britain-based University of Southampton has announced what they believe to have been the first major shipyard in Ancient Rome to ever be discovered at Portus, Rome’s main trading hub between the 1st and 6th centuries. The structure, which BBC reports to be dated around year 117 AD, was...
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 | Another Fatal Accident at Chittagong, Bangladesh Gov’t to Beef Up Maritime Training
On Thursday at the Chittagong shipbreaking yard, one worker was killed and two others injured when a large iron plate crashed onto the men while conducting welding work in Sitakunda upazila, The Daily Star reports. The man who died has been identified as Md Farid, 22, and the injured as Alam, 20, and Saiful, 22. The accident...
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 | EXECUTIVE ACHIEVEMENT: Thomas J. Bethel, National President, American Maritime Officers
By MarEx Staff Tom Bethel, National President of American Maritime Officers (AMO), the largest union of merchant marine officers in the U.S., was raised in Philadelphia by a family that worked the city’s waterfront. His grandfather...
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 | American Security Team Arrested In Nampula By Mozambique Police
The Mozambican police have announced the arrest on Thursday night of four Americans and one British citizen at the airport in the northern city of Nampula, in unauthorized possession of weaponry, According to a Nampula police spokesperson cited in Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais", the group was...
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 | VIDEO: Coast Guard Monitors Adrift Barge In Bering Straight
The crews of the 82-foot Crowley tugs Siku and Sinuk successfully reestablished the tow of an adrift 173-foot barge carrying approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel in the Bering Strait near Wales Wednesday at 4:35 p.m. The Coast Guard will continue to monitor the situation as the tugs take the barge to Port Clarence, its...
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 | Hearing Focuses on Economic Impacts of Aging U.S. Inland Waterways System
A Congressional hearing highlighted the economic importance and positive impacts on job creation of the nation’s Inland Waterways Transportation System. The hearing focused on the physical needs of the aging locks and dams as well as challenges to improving the system’s infrastructure, including the increasing amount of...
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 | BOEMRE Awards $5.6 Million for Arctic Environmental Study
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of highly qualified and experienced Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast....
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 | Copenhagen Shipping Exchange Expands Presence in the Americas
Copenhagen Shipping Exchange (CPHSE), a leading software application provider to the shipping industry announced that it is expanding its US presence with the addition of Joseph Benzola as its sales director for North and South America. Benzola joins CPHSE after nearly two decades servicing the shipping industry. An...
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 | Van Oord Wins Orders in Brazil in Excess of EUR 165 Million
Van Oord has been awarded two dredging projects in the port of Suape, Brazil. Together the two contracts are worth more than EUR 165 million. The client is Suape Complexo Industrial Portuario Governador Eraldo Gueiros, the port authority for the State of Pernambuco. Work on the two projects is scheduled to begin in late...
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 | Dubai Maritime City Authority Seeks to Establish Bunker Standards in UAE
DMCA focuses on key issues covering safety, environmental sustainability and dispute resolution in bunkering industry. Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), the government entity in-charge of regulating and supervising all aspects of the maritime sector in Dubai, has announced that it is leading a new initiative that seeks to...
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 | Imtech Receives the Designation 'Royal'
Imtech N.V. (IM-AE, technical services provider in Europe and on the global marine market) announces that Her Royal Highness the Queen of the Netherlands has decided to grant Imtech N.V. the right to use the designation 'Royal'. This special Predicate is awarded today by Mr. Jan Franssen, Queen's Commissioner in the Provence...
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 | Coast Guard Awards Bollinger Huge Contract for Four More Fast Response Cutters
The Coast Guard awarded a $179.7 million contract option to Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La., September 22 for the production of four more Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs). This option award brings the total number of FRCs under contract with Bollinger to twelve, with a current contract value of $597 million. ...
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 | Jackson Offshore Operators Secures GOM Contract with Super Major
Lee Jackson, President and CEO of Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC is pleased to announce that the company is now 60 days into two long term contracts with a Super Major oil and gas company in the US Gulf of Mexico to supply two Fast Supply Vessels (FSV), M/V Fury and M/V Storm, for Gulf of Mexico operations. “Our...
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 | Crowley Expands Logistics Offerings to the British Virgin Islands
Crowley Maritime Corporation announced today the continued expansion of the company's logistics offerings in the Caribbean with the addition of freight forwarding, consolidation and Customs brokerage services in Tortola and Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands (BVI). In conjunction with these new capabilities, Crowley now also offers...
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