By Alastair Marsh (Bloomberg) — Terence Tsai started hearing about the growing labor crisis in shipping in a roundabout way. First, in March, an official at a ship management… Weiterlesen »Rogue Captain’s Mid-Ocean Detour Tips Investors to Humanitarian Crisis at Sea

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Federal Maritime Commissioners Carl Bentzel and Daniel Maffei have written to US president Joe Biden urging his new administration to… Weiterlesen »FMC Urges Biden Administration to Expedite Vaccinations for Nation’s Dockworkers

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a U.S.-flagged Matson ship after she was having difficulty breathing and temporarily lost consciousness off Washington’s coast… Weiterlesen »Woman Medevaced from Matson Ship Off Washington

By Lucien Libert (Reuters) A French ocean adventurer and his team have designed a yacht that he says can scoop up plastic garbage to stop… Weiterlesen »This Sailing Yacht Feeds On Ocean Plastic

WaveSignalTM, launched this week by Rutter Inc., is the latest addition to the sigma S6 line of advanced radar processing systems. WaveSignalTM uses x-band radar… Weiterlesen »Wave Prediction Becomes A Reality

Turkish maritime authorities have published some terrifying video showing a cargo ship breaking in half in a matter of minutes. The incident took place January… Weiterlesen »Terrifying Video Shows Cargo Ship Break in Half Off Turkey

By Katarina Hoije (Bloomberg) – One of the world’s largest operators of floating power plants is in talks to bring power to two West African countries,… Weiterlesen »West African Countries Seek Power Ships as Virus Stalls Land Projects

DUBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) – A move by South Korea towards releasing $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds may help spur Iran’s judiciary to resolve… Weiterlesen »Iran MP Says Unfreezing $7 Billion May Help Release of South Korean Tanker

The NOAA Ocean Prediction Center is predicting seas in excess of 60 feet associated with a low pressure system that has rapidly intensified in the… Weiterlesen »North Atlantic Storm Forecasted to Produce Massive 60-Foot Seas

by John Konrad (gCaptain) Yesterday we wrote that shares of the offshore drillship company Transocean ($RIG) were surging on retail investor interest in highly shorted… Weiterlesen »Castor Maritime Stock Gets Delisted By Robinhood Alongside Gamestop