The Maritime Executive
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Fincantieri Marine Group Appoints George Moutafis as Chief Executive Office
[By Fincantieri Marine Group] Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG), the U.S. subsidiary of Fincantieri – one of the world&rsq...
ABS Develops Industry-Leading EV Battery Fire Simulation Modeling
[By: ABS] ABS has developed advanced simulation modeling of thermal runaway in Lithium-ion battery fires, in a critical step fo...
Alternative Fuels Orderbook Shows Resilience Amid Overall Decline in Market
[By: DNV] Ordering of alternative-fuelled vessels is continuing to grow in 2025, despite a slowdown in the overall newbuild mar...
North Star Expands North Sea Presence with New Aberdeen HQ
[By: North Star] North Star, the UK’s leading fully integrated shipowner-operator, has relocated into new headquarters at...
Video: Fire Breakouts on Controversial Tanker at Turkish Scrapyard
A supertanker, which for many years had been used as a storage platform off Libya, is once again causing controversy after a fir...
Nigeria Starts First Domestic Container Shipping Line
Clarion Shipping West Africa is starting what it calls “Nigeria’s first fully indigenous container liner,” as...
MARAD Receives Proposal for Floating Offshore LNG Export Terminal off Texas
With the rush to expand the U.S. LNG export business and strong support from the Trump administration for the energy sector, a d...
“Get Out of Here,” Yells French Mayor as Royal Caribbean Ignores Port Ban
The outspoken Mayor of Nice and President of the region took to the water to personally confront the master and an offic...
Uni-Tanker’s Financial Liability Limited in 2022 Anchor Dragging Incident
A Danish court has found that although the master of a tanker acted with negligence in an anchor-dragging incident that severed...
Rhoads Plans $100M Investment to Expand Operations at Philly’s Navy Yard
Rhoads Industries, alongside Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, announced its plans for a nearly $100 million investmen...