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Every year on June 25th we celebrate the International Maritime Organization - IMO's Day of the Seafarer. This year's theme is "At Sea for All".

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

Here's what a transit of the Panama Canal's new Agua Clara locks will look like from a pilot's perspective.

That's some "seizure".

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

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

The market is "as bad as it’s ever been".

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.

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

Subchapter M... here it is (finally)

Unfortunately the damage has already been done.

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

This shouldn't come as a surprise.

https://gcaptain.com/maritime-monday-june-20-2016/

Mutiny?

Did the Merchant Marine Academy just cancel Sea Year?

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

This could be the break investigators were hoping for.