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Expedition Cruise Ship Hondius Arrives in Rotterdam to Begin Disinfection

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Two Injured Seafarers From CMA CGM Boxship Attack Return Home

Published May 18, 2026 5:26 PM by The Maritime Executive

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 vessel sustained significant damage. Two of the injured crewmembers have now returned to the Philippines, according to the country's overseas labor ministry. On May 6, the boxship CMA CGM San Antonio was struck by a cruise missile as it passed eastbound through the contested waterway. CMA CGM told media that eight wounded personnel...

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Dali containership and wrecked Francis Scot Key Bridge Baltimore

Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine Petition Court to Delay Dali Civil Trial

Published May 18, 2026 5:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

With just over two weeks until the scheduled start of the civil trial over the civil liabilities from the containership Dali destroying Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the owner and operator of the Dali petitioned the U.S. District Court in Baltimore to stay the trial based on the Department of Justice just unsealing criminal charges. “The DOJ’s investigation alone has had a significant, detrimental impact on both petitioners, and unsealing the indictment so close in time to trial continues to...

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Bosuns and Seamen Call Strike Against Iceland’s Eimskip

Published May 18, 2026 4:37 PM by The Maritime Executive

Eimskip, a niche shipping company based in Iceland that maintains service connecting Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Europe, reports it has received a strike notice from the Seafarers’ Union of Iceland. Contract negotiations have been ongoing since the old agreement expired at the end of the year, and if the strike proceeds on May 25, it would impact three of the company’s fleet of 13 ships as well as 40 percent of its staffing at the Eimskip Sundahöfn terminal...

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Russia's FESCO Expands Africa Operations With a New Service in Tanzania

Published May 18, 2026 3:17 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Russian-based container line FESCO is further expanding its global operations, with the company launching a new connection to Tanzania. This milestone appears to be part of a wider strategy by the company to strengthen its footprint in Africa. Almost a year ago, FESCO launched a container service between South Africa’s Durban port and the Russian ports of Novorossiysk and St. Petersburg. The containers are transshipped through India’s Nhava Sheva port, under FESCO’s regular Indian Line West Service (FIL-W). This...

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UK Approves Three Offshore Wind Farms as it Looks to Next Allocation Round

The UK continues to push forward with its focus on renewable energy, with the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announcing the approval of three projects, two of which have already completed electricity contracts and are likely to move forward quickly. It comes as the Crown Estate released a new report saying the UK has reached 19 percent of its energy generation coming from offshore wind energy and a total of 30 percent coming from a combination of onshore and offshore wind...

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UAE Shipbuilders Launch a Consortium to Coordinate Projects

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 protect these market gains in a region facing geopolitical tensions, UAE shipbuilders have announced an industry wide partnership. Last week, AD Ports Group said that it had joined hands with other shipbuilders to form a consortium. The aim is to create a unified platform cross shipbuilding, vessel repair, fabrication and marine engineering. The consortium includes...

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Environment

A giant guitarfish is among the species being caught by bottom trawling. (Sarah Foster)

Op-Ed: Bottom Trawl Operators Need to Prove That They Are Sustainable

[By Sarah Foster and Amanda Vincent] Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world’s fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and social concerns. Given that, you’d think there would be an answer to basic questions in fisheries: how many fish species are being caught, and what are they? In reality, though, bottom trawling is often proceeding blindly. Bottom trawling is widespread and problematic. Gears operate by dragging large weighted nets across the ocean floor (some as wide as...

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Dali containership and wrecked Francis Scot Key Bridge Baltimore

Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine Petition Court to Delay Dali Civil Trial

With just over two weeks until the scheduled start of the civil trial over the civil liabilities from the containership Dali destroying Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the owner and operator of the Dali petitioned the U.S. District Court in Baltimore to stay the trial based on the Department of Justice just unsealing criminal charges. “The DOJ’s investigation alone has had a significant, detrimental impact on both petitioners, and unsealing the indictment so close in time to trial continues to...

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