By MarEx 2015-09-04 19:09:16 Naval architects Knud E. Hansen have designed a luxury expedition cruise ship for worldwide operation including Arctic and Antarctic regions. The vessel features a range ...
Polar Cruise Ship Designed with Solar, Battery Systems
Diver Jailed for Taking Historic Artifacts
By MarEx 2015-09-04 18:43:58 After a two year investigation by the U.K. Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA), a commercial diver has been jailed for two years and ordered to pay £35,000 ($53,000) ...
Saving Our Reefs With An Underwater Drone
By MarEx 2015-09-04 16:44:54 Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has developed the world’s first autonomous robot designed to seek and kill the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), ...
Development of Louisiana Offshore Megaport Underway
By MarEx 2015-09-04 14:55:47 After seven years of planning, development of a deepwater port off the coast of Plaquemines Parish is underway. On August 31, the Louisiana International Deepwater Gulf ...
Suez Canal Sets One-Day Record
By MarEx 2015-09-04 14:39:10 Less than one month after its inauguration, the newly expanded Suez Canal appears on track to hit Egypt’s lofty projections for increased canal traffic. The Suez Canal ...
Vessel Sinks In Xiashimen Channel
By MarEx 2015-09-04 14:29:24 The Chinese-flagged M/V Zhe Pu 01833 sank after striking a reef as it approached China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port via the Xiashimen Channel on September 3. According to ...
Controversial Vessel Up For Sale
By MarEx 2015-09-04 14:17:44 The M/T Morning Glory has been put up for auction by the Libyan government. The tanker was seized by U.S. Special Forces off Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean in March ...
Sailors’ Society launches app for port chaplains
Port chaplains can now track and follow up on care given to seafarers using a new phone app. Launched by the charity Sailors' Society, the Chapplaincy Android phone app will also collect data on ...
New Florida Ports Couincil Chairman Named
By MarEx 2015-09-04 12:06:17 Port Tampa Bay President and CEO Paul Anderson has been elected chairman of the Florida Ports Council, an association of the state’s 15 public seaports, headquartered in ...
Passengers trapped as migrants try to storm Greek ferry
The Greek Coast Guard in the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was forced to use even stun grenades to push back an angry crowd of refugees demanding to sail to Athens. About 1,000 refugees, mainly from ...