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Houthi Forces Confirm Attacks on American Drone and Dark Fleet Tanker

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Video: World’s Largest Self-Righting Fireboat Rolls Like Bathtub Toy

Published Apr 26, 2024 11:00 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Video leaked to social media in Taiwan of the tests of the world’s largest self-righting fireboat. Believed to be the largest of its kind yet built, the vessel rolls in the test before returning to an even keel in six to ten seconds according to documentation from its builders. Taiwan’s Lungteh Shipbuilding, a private shipyard specializing in patrol boats, inceptors, and other high-speed and high-performance vessels, confirmed to media inquiries that the tests were authentic. The shipyard, however, declined...

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Updated: Houthi Missile Damages Shadow Tanker Carrying Russian Oil

Published Apr 26, 2024 9:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

  A tanker traveling in the Red Sea was damaged when the Houthis launched two attacks today. It is the third consecutive day in which they have launched new attacks after a nearly two-week pause. The Houthi missile hit a tanker operating in the so-called shadow fleet and late today U.S. Central Command confirmed two tankers had been targeted. The monitoring operation UK Maritime Trade Operations confirmed receiving a report of an incident approximately 14 nautical miles southwest of Al Mukha, Yemen....

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Steel Cut for Sail Cruise Ships with Brunvoll Added to Propulsion Systems

Published Apr 26, 2024 5:25 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Construction work is now underway for the world’s largest sailing cruise ships which are being developed for Accor’s Orient Express to provide a new level of luxury in cruising. The first steel has been cut for the first of two ships on order in France and today additional details were announced for the vessel’s propulsion system. French hospitality company Accor Group announced its intent to enter the cruise business in January 2023 signing a letter of intent...

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Russian Official Linked to "Ghost Fleet" Has Been Charged With Treason

Published Apr 26, 2024 4:00 PM by Giangiuseppe Pili, Jack Crawford and Alessio Armenzoni

  Timur Vadimovich Ivanov, ex-Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, is under custody on charges of bribery and treason by the Russian authorities. He was considered one of the ten most influential individuals in Putin’s regime, and ‘Shoigu’s man,’ and is suspected of involvement in illicit traffic and turning a profit on the war in Ukraine. Timur Ivanov was born in Moscow (1975), and is sanctioned by the United States and European countries. He was possibly one of the main architects of the Russian ‘ghost...

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Asia’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Commissioned by Ørsted in Taiwan

  Ørsted along with officials of the government of Taiwan gathered today to celebrate the commission of the first sections of the Greater Changhau offshore wind farms. In addition to being the largest of its kind in Asia, the wind farm doubled Taiwan’s offshore wind energy capacity and it is Ørsted’s first gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm outside of Europe. "It took us eight years to turn the words 'energy transition' in our policy papers into actual wind farms in operation,”...

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Shipbuilding

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Steel Cut for Sail Cruise Ships with Brunvoll Added to Propulsion Systems

  Construction work is now underway for the world’s largest sailing cruise ships which are being developed for Accor’s Orient Express to provide a new level of luxury in cruising. The first steel has been cut for the first of two ships on order in France and today additional details were announced for the vessel’s propulsion system. French hospitality company Accor Group announced its intent to enter the cruise business in January 2023 signing a letter of intent...

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Environment

A Raben team rescues an entangled whale in the Banderas Bay, Jalisco state, Pacific Coast of Mexico. Untangling large mammals is a risky task, as rescuers could become caught in the fishing gear they are trying to cut loose. (Image: Ecobac)

Saving Whales, One Rope at a Time

    [By Daniel Cressey]   In 2004, a humpback whale was spotted entangled in fishing gear in Banderas Bay, a small bight on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in which the resort town of Puerto Vallarta nestles. This area is home for Astrid Frisch-Jordán, the operations manager for Ecotours de Mexico and a professional whale watcher. Concerned townspeople were soon calling her about the trapped animal. “The first day, we were like: ‘Oh, that’s very bad, but we cannot...

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Business

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Whistleblower Reveals Japanese Engine Manufacturer Faked Fuel Data

  Japan’s IHI Power Systems Company, a leading manufacturer of engines used in marine and land applications including trains, issued an apology and official “Notice of Misconduct” after a whistleblower revealed the company has been altering fuel consumption data for decades. The company is confirming that an internal investigation found that “improper alterations” were made to the test operation records with reports saying it was going on since the 1980s at one manufacturing plant and since 2001 at the other....

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