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With the downturn in the oil and gas industry, some companies are turning to the growing aquaculture industry.

One of the world’s largest salmon producers is looking to the offshore oil and gas industry for inspiration with the development of a semi-submersible fish farm rig designed to move operations further offshore where environmental conditions are best suited for the growth of fish stocks. The world’s…
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Here's what a transit of the Panama Canal's new Agua Clara locks will look like from a pilot's perspective.

Great time-lapse video showing a trial transit of the Panama Canal’s new Atlantic-facing Agua Clara locks from a pilot’s perspective. The vessel is the MV Baroque, a bulk carrier measuring 255m long by 43m in beam, which has been chartered specifically for training purposes in the lead up to the ina...
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

That's some "seizure".

The insurer of a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier which ran aground last week in Mauritius following an apparent brawl on board says that the incident was the result of a serious medical episode suffered by one of the vessel’s crew members, and not the result of a wider conflict. The circumstances of…
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

Maersk hasn’t made a major acquisition in more than a decade but says it might be open to “the right opportunity”.

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Line is fighting to remain the world’s no.1 container shipping carrier as a wave of mergers and acquisitions, particularly in Asia, creates new challengers trying to grab a bigger share of a depressed market. Maersk itself hasn’t made a m...
gcaptain.com|By Reuters

Could we actually see a remote controlled ship in commercial use by the end of the decade?

Representatives from the Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) are in Amsterdam this week to discuss the project’s vision of how remote and autonomous shipping will become a reality. “This is happening. It’s not if, it’s when,” said Oskar Levander, Rolls-Royce...
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The market is "as bad as it’s ever been".

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The continuing cost-per-slot supremacy of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) was called into question by speakers at last week’s TOC Container Supply Chain event in Hamburg. With bunker prices still at low ebb, and daily charter rates at some of the lowest leve...
gcaptain.com|By The Loadstar

Earlier this month the Panama Canal tested its new Agua Clara locks. This time they tested the Pacific-facing Cocoli locks, with a much smaller vessel.

A U.S.-built crane ship was used to conduct a trial transit of the Panama Canal’s new Cocoli Locks on Monday ahead of next week’s inauguration of the Expanded Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority reports that the Panama-flagged vessel, named Oceanus, was maneuvered through the Pacific-facing Coc...
gcaptain.com|By gCaptain

This vessel was the first of two ordered when the Turku shipyard switch hands from STX Finland to Meyer Werft and the Finnish government.

Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku on Monday delivered the cruise ship Mein Schiff 5 to TUI Cruises a full ten days ahead of schedule. Construction of the vessel began in November 2014 shortly after the Turku shipyard, formerly part of STX Finland, was acquired by State of Finland and German shipbuilder…
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

Subchapter M... here it is (finally)

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday published the final rule of its new and long-awaited towing vessel regulations known as Subchapter M establishing new requirements for the design, construction, onboard equipment and operation of towing vessels. The regulations, which were developed over more than a de...
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Unfortunately the damage has already been done.

A Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier has been refloated after running aground on at a world-famous diving site off Cebu, Philippines last week. The ship, MV Belle Rose, was refloated Saturday morning and moved to an anchorage off the coast San Fernand, Cebu under its own power. According to reports a s...
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

The area in the southern Philippines has been hit by a spate of recent hijackings by Islamist militants.

MANILA, June 20 (Reuters) – Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on Monday agreed to designate a transit corridor for commercial vessels crossing a maritime zone hit by a spate of hijackings by Islamist militants in the southern Philippines. Nearly 20 Indonesian and Malaysian tugboat crew have be...
gcaptain.com|By Reuters

This shouldn't come as a surprise.

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Ship scrapping appears set to hit record levels this year, according to shipbroker and services firm Clarksons. In its latest review of the demolition market, it says that after a slowing in the second half of 2015, ship scrapping “returned to a rapid pace” this year. A...
gcaptain.com|By The Loadstar
Berengaria started life as SS Imperator, an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the largest passenger ship in the world, surpassing Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic. During World War I, she remained in port at Hamburg. After a brief s...
gcaptain.com|By Monkey Fist

Mutiny?

A 44,000 DWT bulk carrier is hard aground in Mauritius after a fight apparently broke out on board among crew members. Local media reports that Liberian-flagged MV Benita was sailing from India to Durban South Africa when a brawl erupted Thursday night, causing the ship to drift into land on the sou...
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

New Job on the Board: Foss Maritime Company, Hawaii: Class 2 Operator

Notice #: FMC-03-16 Job Title: CLASS 2 OPERATOR
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BP Shipping needs a Technical Superintendent. Apply Now!

The Technical Superintendent will operate as an integrated member of the Marine & Technical team in Houston providing marine engineering subject matter expertise and support to BP Shipping and Group activities in the region. This will include ongoing engineering support and acting as a single point…
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Did the Merchant Marine Academy just cancel Sea Year?

One of the great benefits of attending the US Merchant Marine Academy is the experience of going out to sea on US-Flag merchant ships. This is called ‘Sea Year’. While the state schools primarily rely on school ships, USMMA Midshipmen are sent, generally two at a time, to commercial vessels trading…
gcaptain.com|By Fred

The Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm in dense fog 12 miles off the coast of Nantucket. 51 people died.

For the first time ever, a team of underwater explorers have captured detailed close-up sonar images of the legendary Andrea Doria nearly 60 years after its sinking off the coast of Nantucket. The sonar images are being collected by a team from OceanGate, an ocean exploration company, which has laun...
gcaptain.com|By Mike Schuler

This could be the break investigators were hoping for.

By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO, June 16 (Reuters) – The cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 has been retrieved by search teams in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to crash into the sea killing all 66 people on board. The Airbus A320…
gcaptain.com|By Reuters