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Louisiana-based boat builder Metal Shark is building two welded-aluminum fireboats for Anne Arundel County Fire Department in Maryland.The new 50 Defiant NXT monohull pilothouse fireboats were designed by Metal Shark’s in-house engineering team…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/metal-shark-building-fireboats-anne-509047
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GTT and Deltamarin have obtained an approval in principle (AIP) from Lloyd's Register for their design of a dual-fuel very large crude carrier (VLCC), which incorporates a 12,500m3 liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank equipped with GTT's Mark III…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/lr-grants-aip-lng-dualfuel-vlcc-design-509050
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Israel will provide compensation for ships that are damaged due to the war in Gaza and the government is taking steps to minimise risks for vessels using the country's ports, government advisories said.Israel has vowed to annihilate the Hamas…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/israel-pay-compensation-ships-damaged-509051
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Royal Caribbean Group on Thursday lifted its full-year profit forecast for a third time and said bookings for the next year were "significantly outpacing" pre-pandemic levels by a wide margin, sending its shares up about 3%.Cruise operators…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/royal-caribbean-raises-profit-target-509052
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Lloyd's Register (LR) will classify two methanol-ready Commissioning Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) being built by VARD for the UK-based offshore vessel operator North Star."The new tonnage will increase North Star’s offshore wind capabilities…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/lloyds-register-classify-methanolready-509053
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused a federal judge's order last month that had required the Biden administration to expand a planned offshore oil and gas auction in the Gulf of Mexico by 6 million acres (2.4 million hectares).The U.S.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-appeals-court-blocks-gulf-mexico-oil-509055
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The three incidents that resulted in damage to a gas pipeline and two telecom cables between Estonia, Finland and Sweden "are related", Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said.Finnish police leading the pipeline investigation have named the…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/three-baltic-pipe-cable-incidents-related-509059
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Andrew Craig-Bennett gives readers his take on the rise of the shadow tanker fleet. In 1995, I wrote in a column that “good” shipowners, of whom there are several, the people who look after their ships and their crews, whose immaculate ocean greyhounds arrive with pretty much the cargo that they set out with, and …
https://splash247.com/the-dark-side/
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Shipbuilding might be enjoying record-long orderbooks and elevated prices, but margins remain wafer-thin for many as evidenced in South Korea where one of the nation’s oldest shipyards has applied for a debt workout with its main creditor. Busan-based Daesun Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, whose history dates back to 1945, has sought debt protection from the …
https://splash247.com/korean-shipyard-seeks-bank-protection/
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With just over two months to go until its implementation, the European Union’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) is proving to be as contentious as the 2020 scrubber debate. The lead story in this month’s Splash Extra identifies the inconsistencies with the new regulation with suggestions for urgent patches to make the ruling more functional. …
https://splash247.com/inconsistencies-of-the-upcoming-eu-emissions-trading-system-laid-bare/
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