By MarEx 2017-01-18 00:37:45 Shipping analyst Alphaliner has voiced a rumor that has been circulating throughout the container shipping industry: that Orient Overseas International might sell its ...
Rumors of OOCL Sale Intensify
MSC Breaks Ground at New Private Island
By MarEx 2017-01-17 20:49:53 On Tuesday, MSC Cruises announced that it has broken ground at last on the construction of its new private island, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve. Ocean Cay, a former ...
Ex-Maritime Administrator Joins HMS Global Maritime
By MarEx 2017-01-17 19:30:28 U.S. Maritime Administrator Paul "Chip" Jaenichen has accepted a position as chief operating officer of HMS Global Maritime, the owner of Queen Steamboat Company, ...
MLC Abandonment Provisions Enter into Force
By MarEx 2017-01-17 19:19:42 Under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) shipowners must now have insurance to assist the seafarers on board vessels if they are abandoned. All ships, to which ...
Norway Awards Fifty-Six Offshore Licenses
By MarEx 2017-01-17 19:04:57 On January 17, offers for 56 new production licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf were sent to 29 companies. Of the 56 licenses, 36 are in the North Sea, 17 in the ...
Sinking Off Manila Leaves One Dead, Five Missing
By MarEx 2017-01-17 18:24:41 [Brief] Philippine search and rescue teams are looking for five missing members of the crew of the cargo vessel Virginia 1, which caught fire and sank Tuesday at the ...
CLIA Joins Coalition to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
By MarEx 2017-01-17 18:17:03 Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and American Society for Travel Agents (ASTA) have joined the U.S. Wildlife ...
MH370 Search Suspended
By MarEx 2017-01-17 17:00:00 The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended. Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board en route to ...
80 False Killer Whales Dead in Mass Stranding
By MarEx 2017-01-17 16:45:32 Over the weekend, nearly 100 false killer whales were found stranded on a mangrove shoreline in the Florida Everglades, and biologists are trying to determine why they ...
Abu Sayyaf Releases Two Seafarers
By MarEx 2017-01-17 13:48:40 Captain Park Chul Hong, the master of the heavy lift ship Dongbang Giant II, returned to South Korea on Sunday after three months' captivity as a hostage of the Abu ...