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HMS Prince of Wales Continues Extended Pacific Voyage   The UK-led carrier strike group led by HMS Prince of Wales (R09), has now left Singapore after a week-long port visit, and is heading further east to Indonesia, a series of Australian-led exercises, and then northwards past Taiwan to South Korea and Japan. The multinational group…

U.S. Navy Budget Request Leaves Out Next Constellation-Class Frigate   Each year’s proposed Navy budget gets a lot of attention for what’s in and what’s out, but this year has some big surprises. The next order for a Constellation-class frigate is zeroed out – no frigates are in the budget request. But the Pentagon has…

American Maritime Partnership Welcomes Over 1,100 US Maritime Graduates [By American Maritime Partnership]   The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the voice of the domestic maritime industry, proudly congratulates the more than 1,100 graduates from America’s maritime academies who make up the Class of 2025. These graduates now join the 650,000 men and women of the…

Denmark Grants Life Extension for Two Pioneering Wind Farms     Two of the pioneering offshore wind farms, which at the time were also the largest in the world, have been granted life extensions by the Danish Energy Agency. This marks the third offshore wind farm that Demarn was licensed for continued operations and represents…

NTSB Releases First Report on Mexican Navy Training Ship Accident The National Transportation Safety Board has released the preliminary results of its investigation into the allision of the Mexican Navy training vessel Cuauhtémoc with the Brooklyn Bridge last month. The report covers the known facts of the incident, and does not provide any conclusions about…

Vessel Rerouting Contributed to Increase in Containers Lost at Sea While the overall trend continues to show improvement in the number of containers going overboard, the World Shipping Council reports that in 2024, rerouting of vessels to avoid the hostilities in the Red Sea directly contributed to an increase in boxes lost at sea. The…

Huntington Ingalls Tries Out AI to Fight Schedule Delays   Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipbuilding programs for the U.S. Navy face significant delays, particularly for the Ford-class aircraft carrier program, which is running years behind. To speed up work, HII is working with publicly-listed enterprise AI company C3 AI to put advanced algorithms behind the wheel…