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Israeli fighter destroys an Iranian ballistic missile launcher, June 14, 2025 (IAF)

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Op-Ed: No Need to Panic Over AUKUS Review

Published Jun 15, 2025 2:15 PM by The Strategist

  [By Euan Graham] The Trump administration has ordered a review of AUKUS to be led by Undersecretary of Defense Policy Elbridge Colby. The review has some attendant risks, but also a potential upside for the three-way partnership. The decision to review AUKUS shouldn’t be surprising. It’s normal, after a change of government, for a new administration to review existing commitments in the light of new policy priorities: in this case, ‘America First’. Britain’s Labour government has completed its own...

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Trigon Takes FID for Prince Rupert LPG as Canada Grows Gas Exports to Asia

Published Jun 13, 2025 7:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

Canadian firm Trigon Pacific Terminals intends to increase bulk liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exports to Asian markets after reaching a final investment decision (FID) on a C$750 million (US$552 million) export facility at the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It comes as Canada works to expand its energy exports including the Canada LNG plant in Vancouver which is scheduled to start exports in the coming weeks. Privately-owned Trigon called reaching the FID a critical milestone in the...

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WWI Shipwreck Survey to Help Tackle Threats of Environmental Time Bomb

Published Jun 13, 2025 6:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

  A team of experts is planning to carry out a detailed survey of a British World War I warship sitting at the bottom of the sea, hoping that it can serve as a blueprint for tackling the environmental time bombs of wartime shipwrecks. The team from Britain’s Ministry of Defense Salvage and Maritime Operations (SALMO) and Waves Group intends to study the wreck of HMS Cassandra which is lying in just 20 meters of water in the Baltic Sea,...

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Why Wind Farm Developers Are Pulling Out At The Last Minute

Published Jun 13, 2025 5:49 PM by The Conversation

[By Thomas York] The UK government’s strategy for tackling climate change received a major blow in May when Danish developer Ørsted announced that adverse economic developments had halted its 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea 4 wind farm in the North Sea. The government aims to generate at least 43GW of offshore wind power (current capacity is 14.7GW) and 95% of all energy from renewable sources by 2030. These targets are now in jeopardy. The cancellation of Hornsea 4 follows a similar...

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Why Wind Farm Developers Are Pulling Out At The Last Minute

[By Thomas York] The UK government’s strategy for tackling climate change received a major blow in May when Danish developer Ørsted announced that adverse economic developments had halted its 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea 4 wind farm in the North Sea. The government aims to generate at least 43GW of offshore wind power (current capacity is 14.7GW) and 95% of all energy from renewable sources by 2030. These targets are now in jeopardy. The cancellation of Hornsea 4 follows a similar...

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Hapag-Lloyd Takes Delivery of Last Ship in its New LNG Ultra Large Class

  Hapag-Lloyd is reporting it has taken the delivery of the new Wilhelmshaven Express (229,350 dwt) container vessel the twelfth in its new ultra large Hamburg Express class and its first dual-fuel LNG class of vessels. Ordering the ships in 2020 and 2021, Hapag became one of the first in the industry to jump to the larger 24,000 TEU class of ultra large vessels. The company highlighted that the class has 20 percent more capacity than its A 19 class...

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Nor-Shipping: Wind-Assisted Propulsion is Finally Taking Off

  Wind-assisted propulsion is having a moment in commercial shipping. On average, most systems on the market can reduce fuel consumption by about 10 percent for a tanker or bulker - or more, if the conditions on the route are right. Design maturity is increasing, along with economies of scale for manufacturing, bringing down capex and shortening payback times for the shipowner. It's not just a matter of whether it's the right thing to do; it is getting to the...

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Report: COSCO Seeks Share of Hutchison Deal Addressing China’s Fears

A new report is suggesting that China’s COSCO Shipping is negotiating for a role as an investor in the deal to acquire the terminal operations of CK Hutchison. Bloomberg first reported that a group of Chinese investors is in discussions with MSC’s Terminal Investments and BlackRock about participating in the $23 billion deal for the terminal operations in 41 ports around the world. China has strongly objected to the deal and primarily the parallel portion that sells the...

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