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File image: KMWU members protest at a Hanwha Ocean facility, 2026 (KMWU)

Union Leader Launches Crane Sit-in at Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan Yard

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Hundreds of shipyard workers gather for the keel-laying for the future CCGS Imnaryuaq, with a nearly-completed naval auxiliary in the background (CCG)

Seaspan Lays the Keel for Canada's Biggest Domestically-Built Icebreaker

Published Oct 16, 2026 10:52 PM by The Maritime Executive

Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards has carried out the keel-laying ceremony for the Canadian Coast Guard's next polar icebreaker, the future CCGS Imnaryuaq. It has been 15 years since the initial contract was awarded for Imnaryuaq, and the long-awaited vessel is now formally under way towards completion. Delivery is expected in 2032. At 520 feet long and 26,000 tonnes displacement, Imnaryuaq will be the largest icebreaker ever built in Canada. The ship will be constructed to Polar Class 2 standards for service...

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Maritime Piracy in 2026 Fell to 1992 Levels Despite Somalia-Yemen Surge

Published Oct 16, 2026 6:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

The waters off the Horn of Africa are now the most dangerous for the merchant shipping industry owing to the resurgence of Somali piracy, a development that comes as global piracy and armed robbery incidents have plunged to their lowest levels in decades. In its quarterly report on violence against seafarers, the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) highlighted the renewed threat from Somali pirates while saying vigilance needs to be maintained in all areas of the globe, The overall tone...

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HMAS Leeuwin

Australia Investigates Hidden Camera Found in Women’s Bathroom on Navy Ship

Published Oct 16, 2026 6:34 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Australian Defence Force is reporting that a person of interest has been identified and is cooperating with its investigation into a hidden camera that was found aboard one of its vessels. The camera located in a women’s bathroom on HMAS Leeuwin has turned into a national embarrassment and is being treated as an act of sexual violence. The video recording device was discovered aboard HMAS Leeuwin on October 11 while the ship was at its berth in Cairns, Queensland....

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USNS dry cargo ship arriving for repairs

South Korean Yard Completes Repairs for USNS Amelia Earhart

Published Oct 16, 2026 5:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

South Korea’s HJ Heavy Industries completed a larger-than-planned overhaul and repair project for the Military Sealift Command supply ship USNS Amelia Earhart and redelivered the ship to the U.S. Navy. The project is in keeping with the U.S. Navy’s “Indo-Pacific Maintenance Capability Enhancement” policy, which is designed to undertake maintenance and overhaul work in the region to reduce the vessel’s time away from service and out of the region, while also reducing the amount of work on the already stretched...

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Despite Rumors, Logistical Shortfalls Rule Out Russian-Iranian Oil Blending

Speculation has recently mounted that Iran is managing to export its crude oil using routes over the Caspian Sea. Given the Iranian regime’s sanctions-breaking expertise, developed over nearly 50 years, one might expect the Iranians capable of putting such diversions in place. But as yet there is little public evidence that they have managed to do so in any appreciable quantity. Iranian oil is produced onshore in the southwestern province of Khuzestan (from the Ahvaz, Gachsaran, Marun and Aghajari oilfields)...

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File image: KMWU members protest at a Hanwha Ocean facility, 2026 (KMWU)

Union Leader Launches Crane Sit-in at Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan Yard

The head of one of the labor unions at Hyundai Heavy Industries has begun a sit-in on top of a crane at HHI's shipyard in Ulsan, the local branch of the Korean Metal Workers' Union said in a statement. The protest comes after months of unsuccessful negotiations on a new collective bargaining contract; the talks have yet to produce a deal that the rank and file will accept, and the KMWU has called a five-day partial strike extending through the...

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Investigating the Hidden Costs of World’s Farmed Seafood

For nearly a decade, the Outlaw Ocean Project, the non-profit journalistic organization that I founded, has produced high-impact investigative stories about lawlessness at sea and the variety of threats posed to the people and biodiversity of a space that covers two thirds of our planet. The oceans bear a heavy and largely invisible burden. The public usually takes it for granted, a forever self-replenishing resource that we use to fill our stomachs or line our wallets. Our journalism intends to...

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A refinery in Moscow burns after a Ukrainian drone strike, June 2026 (Russian social media)

IEA: Russian Diesel Deal Won't Change Tight Global Energy Market

The tight global market for diesel fuel is likely to extend well into 2027, according to the latest analysis from the International Energy Agency, meaning that record prices may be here to stay through at least the first quarter of 2027 - and maybe longer, depending upon the conflicts in the Mideast and Ukraine. The disruption at the Strait of Hormuz, attacks on refineries in the GCC states, and Ukraine's concerted campaign of strikes on Russian energy infrastructure have all...

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