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“Get Out of Here,” Yells French Mayor as Royal Caribbean Ignores Port Ban

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Rhoads Plans $100M Investment to Expand Operations at Philly’s Navy Yard

Published Jul 4, 2025 9:16 AM by The Maritime Executive

  Rhoads Industries, alongside Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, announced its plans for a nearly $100 million investment to expand manufacturing capacity at its shipyard facilities in Philadelphia at the site of the former Navy shipyard. Rhodes operates layup and recycling operations as well as a repair facility. It will grow its manufacturing operations as the U.S. Navy looks to expand and the Trump administration promises large investments into the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry. “Shipbuilding has always been a key...

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Three Australians Arrested for Importing Ornate Tiles Coated in Meth

Published Jul 3, 2025 11:36 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Australian authorities have arrested three men for allegedly attempting to import more than 300 kilos of crystal meth, dissolved and coated onto a consignment of ceramic tiles.  Meth smugglers have used every imaginable inventive tactic to move their goods across borders, like dissolved "liquid meth" in gas tanks or liquor bottles, hollow compartments inside marble slabs, or loose pills poured into compartments within industrial machinery. This new tactic - dissolving meth, then soaking objects in it and letting the...

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Wind

Sowing the Wind

Published Jul 3, 2025 9:33 PM by Erik Kravets

  Wind as power is an old idea. The ancient Egyptians sailed up and down the Nile with ships and barges. Later, windmills were used to grind grain or pump water to irrigate fields. Today, 18 percent of European electrical demand is satisfied by wind-spun blades powering turbines, each with magnets that dance around coils to create current. I also have a history with wind power. In 2016, I wondered if offshore wind was here to stay, noting that it...

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Ukraine Now Has a Drone Boat That Launches Bomber Drones

Published Jul 3, 2025 9:24 PM by The Maritime Executive

Ukraine's drone boats have set another operational milestone: they can now be used to launch bomber drones, the heavyweight quadcopters that Ukrainian forces use to drop mortar shells and other explosives.  In a statement, Ukraine's defense ministry said that its forces carried out a long-distance mission to destroy a Nebo-M radar system in Russian-occupied Crimea. The Nebo-M is a high-spec multiband radar that has anti-stealth and hypersonic detection capabilities, and is accompanied by one to three giant truck-mounted radar arrays....

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MARAD Receives Proposal for Floating Offshore LNG Export Terminal off Texas

With the rush to expand the U.S. LNG export business and strong support from the Trump administration for the energy sector, a developer has filed a novel proposal with the Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the U.S. Coast Guard. In a notice to be published on Monday, July 7, in the Federal Register, MARAD and USCG report that the application is sufficiently complete to start processing the proposal from the company called ST LNG for the ST LNG Deepwater...

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Shipbuilding

Philadelphia Navy Yard

Rhoads Plans $100M Investment to Expand Operations at Philly’s Navy Yard

  Rhoads Industries, alongside Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, announced its plans for a nearly $100 million investment to expand manufacturing capacity at its shipyard facilities in Philadelphia at the site of the former Navy shipyard. Rhodes operates layup and recycling operations as well as a repair facility. It will grow its manufacturing operations as the U.S. Navy looks to expand and the Trump administration promises large investments into the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry. “Shipbuilding has always been a key...

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Environment

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Norway Provides $76M in Grants to Advance Hydrogen and Ammonia Ships

Norway continues to support the advancement of a broad range of new technologies that it points out will both contribute to maritime decarbonization while also creating new industries and jobs for Norway. The Enova program announced its fourth round of grants, providing a total of approximately $76 million for projects advancing hydrogen and ammonia as fuels for ships, as well as the establishment of facilities for storing ammonia. Enova SF is owned by Norway’s Ministry of Climate and...

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Business

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Tsuneishi Buys Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding to Consolidate Japanese Shipbuilding

In a further move to consolidate the Japanese shipbuilding and repair businesses, Tsuneishi Shipbuilding reports it acquired its former joint venture with Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding. It is part of a broader reorganization and rebranding of all Tsuneishi’s operations as the Japanese shipbuilding sector works to respond to competition and a changing market. Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding, which traces its origins back 110 years to 1917, had been one of Japan’s leading shipbuilders. The company’s focus had shifted to commercial...

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