• After Turkey Rejects "Stolen" Ukrainian Grain, Bulker Loiters at Sea
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     Following diplomatic pressure from Kyiv, the government of Turkey has refused to allow a Greek bulker carrying allegedly stolen grain from Russian-oc...
  • Facing Risk of U.S. Sanctions, Hapag and CMA CGM Suspend Cuba Bookings
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Following the threat of asset seizures from the U.S. government, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd have both paused all of their cargo bookings in and out of Cu...
  • Treasury Reverses Course and Waives Sanctions on Russian Oil for Third Time
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     The U.S. Treasury has once again extended a sanctions waiver for the sale of Russian oil already on the water, despite past statements that there wou...
  • Israeli Forces Intercept Activist Flotilla off Crete
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Israeli forces moved for the second time to stop the activist Global Summid Flotilla, made up of small boats heading toward Gaza. The action came afte...
  • Professor Momoko Kitada Receives IMO Gender Equality Award
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Japanese maritime academic and former seafarer Professor Momoko Kitada has been awarded the International Maritime Organization’s Gender Equality Award 2026. The award was presented by IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez during a...
  • Gaza Aid flotilla Says Israeli Forces Intercepted 39 Boats
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    The organisers of a flotilla of aid vessels bound for Gaza said on Monday that Israeli forces had intercepted 39 of their boats in the eastern Mediterranean, while the remaining ships were continuing to sail toward the enclave.Earlier on...
  • NextEra CEO Positive About Dominion Offshore Wind Project
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    The chief executive of NextEra Energy said on Monday that his company felt good about Dominion's investment in offshore wind, a technology he has disparaged in the past.CEO John Ketchum made the remarks on a call with investors to...
  • China’s Second Domestically Built Cruise Ship Starts Trials
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     The Adora Flora City, China’s second, large, domestically built cruise ship, began sea trials over the weekend. It comes as China State Shipbuilding...
  • Wesgarde Highlights the Optifuse 641, 642, and 643 Mid-Amp Circuit Breakers
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Wesgarde, a national leader in the distribution of electromechanical and electronic power components, is proud to highlight the Optifuse 641, 642, and...
  • Helm Operations Receives U.S. Coast Guard Recognition for Digital Logbook
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Helm Operations, a market leader in fleet management software for the maritime industry, today announced that Helm CONNECT Logbook has received offici...
  • ABB to Power Two Coastal Hydrographic Vessels for Spanish Navy
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    ABB has secured a contract with Spanish state-owned shipbuilding and design company Navantia to supply two forthcoming Spanish Navy coastal hydrograph...
  • Berg Propulsion New Milestone in Turkey with Strongest Bollard Pull to Date
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Berg Propulsion has been contracted to supply the propulsion and control systems for four diesel-electric, firefighting offshore support tugs which wi...
  • U.S. Coast Guard’s Newest Icebreaker Returns From Arctic Patrol as U.S. Expands Polar Fleet
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest polar icebreaker has returned to Seattle after a 36-day deployment to the Bering Sea, marking an early operational test for a cutter expected to play...
  • Steven Grotsky Appointed M&O Sales & Marketing VP at Bureau Veritas
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has recently appointed Steven Grotsky as Sales & Marketing Vice-President.In this role, Steven leads the Sales & Mark...
  • Eastern Shipbuilding Group Receives SCA Annual Improvement in Safety Award
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA), the national trade association representing the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry, today announced that...
  • Massive Atlantic ‘Cocaine Highway’ Busted in European Maritime Drug Operation
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    European law enforcement agencies say they have disrupted a major transatlantic narcotics corridor known as the “Cocaine Highway,” seizing 11 tonnes of cocaine and 8.5 tonnes of hashish during a...
  • Iran's "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" Takes Steps Towards Operations
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     Iran's self-proclaimed "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" for the administration of Strait of Hormuz transit authorization has formally launched with an...
  • Two Injured Seafarers From CMA CGM Boxship Attack Return Home
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     When the boxship CMA CGM San Antonio was hit by an Iranian missile in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, eight crewmembers were injured and the...
  • Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine Petition Court to Delay Dali Civil Trial
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    With just over two weeks until the scheduled start of the civil trial over the civil liabilities from the containership Dali destroying Baltimore’s Fr...
  • Bosuns and Seamen Call Strike Against Iceland’s Eimskip
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     Eimskip, a niche shipping company based in Iceland that maintains service connecting Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Europe, reports it has received...
  • The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Cracking the Petrodollar System
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    The U.S. dollar-dominated global oil trading system is being tested by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as governments in major consuming nations turn to increasingly opaque deals with Tehran and Gulf producers to...
  • Sanmar Delivers LAGANMAN Tug to Belfast Towage
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Sanmar has completed the delivery of the ASD harbor tug LAGANMAN to Belfast Towage in Northern Ireland. The vessel has arrived at the Port of Belfast following a delivery vovage from Türkiye, carried out by one of Sanmar's experienced...
  • BATTERIES: FleetZero aims to Help Rewrite the Rules of Marine Power
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Michael Carter and Steven Henderson grew up together in North Carolina, attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) together, and most recently jointly founded Fleet Zero, a company aiming to develop modular, containerized...
  • ‘The Madison’ and Tossing Maritime under the Bus
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    I watched the first episode of The Madison, a Michelle Pfeiffer TV Drama on Paramount.In short, it deals with a rich NY family, where the patriarch dies while fishing in Montana and the daughter of the matriarch played, by Michelle...
  • Port of Corpus Christi: Deep Water and Big Energy
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Drive into Corpus Christi and you can feel the paradox that defines many port cities: the waterfront is everywhere, yet the maritime business that powers the place is easy to miss — until you look past the horizon of tanks, docks, and...
  • The Great Battleship Debate: gCaptain’s Konrad Takes On AEI’s Zack Cooper
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    The U.S. Navy has not commissioned a battleship since 1944. Donald Trump now wants as many as 25. The first, USS Defiant, will displace more than 35,000 tons, carry hypersonics,...
  • Russia's FESCO Expands Africa Operations With a New Service in Tanzania
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    The Russian-based container line FESCO is further expanding its global operations, with the company launching a new connection to Tanzania. This miles...
  • Expedition Cruise Ship Hondius Arrives in Rotterdam to Begin Disinfection
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     The expedition cruise ship Hondius docked in Rotterdam on Monday, May 18, operating with a skeleton crew, and will begin an extensive disinfection pr...
  • IEA Supports Digital Transformation of Glaciar Pesquera Fisheries Fleet
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has worked with its Argentinian partner Ingenieros Electrónicos Asociados (IEA) to implement NexusWave for Glacia...
  • ABS & HHI Sign MoU to Advance Innovative Technology in Maritime & Offshore
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    ABS and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., LTD. (HHI), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a range of initiatives supporti...
  • Korean Register, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries Publish EEDI Guidelines
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Korean Register (KR) has published the "Numerical Calculation Guidelines for the Determination of the Attained EEDI," developed through a joint research initiative with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) and Samsung Heavy Industries...
  • Berg Propulsion to Supply Propulsion for Diesel-Electric Tugs
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Berg Propulsion has been contracted to supply the propulsion and control systems for four diesel-electric, firefighting offshore support tugs which will be the most powerful vessels of their type ever built in Türkiye.The vessels have...
  • Revenue for Russian LNG Exports Decreases as Shift to Asia Doubles Costs
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding News
    Russia's diversification of its liquefied natural gas exports to Asia after the loss of the European market will cut its revenue due to at least a doubling of logistics costs, industry sources and analysts told Reuters.The European Union...
  • Sweden Arrests New Captain After Detained Tanker Fakes New Registry
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     Sweden’s Coast Guard reported on Monday that the country’s prosecutors have opened a new investigation into the detained product tanker Sea Owl I. Ac...
  • Iran Launches Bitcoin-Based Insurance Scheme for Ships Crossing Hormuz
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    Iran has started a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for Iranian shipping companies that want to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing documents obtained from the country’s Ministry of Economy...
  • Treasury Extends Russian Oil Sanctions Relief as Hormuz Crisis Tightens Global Supplies
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day general license allowing “the most vulnerable nations” to access Russian oil cargoes currently stranded at sea,...
  • Russian Drones Strike Three Commercial Ships Including Chinese Bulker
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Ukrainian officials are reporting that three commercial ships inbound for the ports near Odesa were struck on Monday. Although there was only minor da...
  • Iran Launches Official ‘Persian Gulf Strait Authority’ Account, Declares Unauthorized Hormuz Transit ‘Illegal’
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    The Iranian-backed Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has officially launched a public presence on X, marking the clearest effort yet by Tehran to formalize and publicize its emerging control regime...
  • Norway Joins EU Baltic Sea Strategy as Full Member Amid Regional Security Push
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    Norway has officially become a full member of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), marking a significant expansion of regional cooperation as Europe sharpens its focus...
  • Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Reaches Rotterdam
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    A luxury liner at the center of an outbreak of hantavirus docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, where authorities were disembarking the remaining 25 crew members and two medical staff and planned to cremate a German woman who...
  • Boskalis Orders Massive New Cable Layer for Offshore Energy Projects
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    Dutch offshore contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. is betting big on the future of subsea power infrastructure, announcing plans to build a massive new 24,000-ton Cable Lay Vessel (CLV) designed to support...
  • Global Oil Inventories Are Collapsing at Record Pace, IEA Warns
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    The International Energy Agency says the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis is triggering one of the most severe oil market disruptions in modern history, with global oil demand now expected...
  • Military Jets’ Crew Members Safely Ejected after Idaho Air Show Collision, Navy Says
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from gCaptain.com
    Four crew members involved in a mid-air collision of military jets at an air show ejected safely on Sunday outside Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, the U.S. Navy said.
  • Iran's Empty Tankers are Still Running Blockade, But Loadings Have Stopped
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     The U.S. Navy's blockade on Iranian shipping continues to turn back vessels in the Gulf of Oman, but Central Command has not yet sealed up all of its...
  • Shipping's Decision in 2026: Act With Pace, Preserve Flexibility
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     Shipping now has a range of credible decarbonization options, from alternative fuels to energy-saving technologies. With regulations tightening and c...
  • UAE Shipbuilders Launch a Consortium to Coordinate Projects
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     In the past few years, the UAE’s shipbuilding sector has been able to build an international client base resulting in an increase of exports. To prot...
  • Anchor Handler Runs Aground Just Off a Popular Beach in Brazil
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     An anchor-handler on charter to Petrobras has gone aground about 80 nautical miles to the northeast of Rio de Janiero.The 2010-built AHTS vessel Skan...
  • Researchers Want to Use AI and Robotics to Find Ship Defects in Outfitting
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
     The outfitting process for newbuilds could benefit from a new University of Michigan project to develop autonomous robots and AI models that can help...
  • Research Partnership to Quantify Efficacy Maritime Training Immersive Tech
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    The University of Plymouth (UK), Odesa National Maritime University (Ukraine), and Kilo Solutions Ltd have launched a joint research project focused o...
  • Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s SNAME Cadets Earn Honorable Mention
    Sunday, May 17, 2026 from The Maritime Executive - Latest News
    Massachusetts Maritime Academy, a top-ranked public university with undergraduate degree programs focusing on science, engineering, technology, math,...
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