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Singaporean Cargo Inspection Company Shuttered by U.S. Sanctions   After the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a Singapore-based cargo inspection company last month, the firm has laid off most of its staff and is winding down operations, according to local media.  On May 13, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) blacklisted Chinese-owned inspection company…

Salvage Divers Head for MSC Elsa 3 as India Collects Evidence   India’s Directorate General of Shipping reports that the salvage operation for the sunken MSC Elsa 3 containership are moving into its next phase although offshore will in part be delayed by the monsoon season. This comes as the media is reporting the Indian…

Putin Finalizes Long-Term Plan to Revamp Russian Navy   Following a series of setbacks and combat losses in the Black Sea Fleet, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a new strategy to revamp his country’s battered image as a naval power.  Kremlin aide Nikolai Patrushev – who served alongside Putin in the Soviet…

IMO Secretary-General Calls for Ambitious Investments in Decarbonization   The global shipping industry must invest hundreds of billions of dollars in new technologies and alternative fuels to achieve net-zero emissions, maritime leaders said at an international forum in Monaco last weekend. Speaking at the Blue Economy Finance Forum on Sunday, IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez…

Israel Tells Citizens to Evacuate Houthi-Controlled Ports in Yemen For the second time in about a month, Israel has warned the citizens living in the near Houthi-controlled ports to evacuate for their own safety. Israel issued a similar warning on May 10 and a week pounded dropped approximately 35 bombs on the Hodeidah and Salif…

White House Walks Back U.S.-Built LNG Carrier Ambitions   The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has decided to further tweak its proposed port fee structure for Chinese-built vessels, rolling back a proposed deadline for U.S.-built LNG carrier capacity and a fee that would hit all PCTCs in the Maritime Security Program.  USTR’s original proposal…

Israel to Take “All Necessary Measures” to Block Greta Thunberg’s Boat   Israel’s defense minister has vowed to take “all necessary measures” to prevent a 60-foot sailboat carrying activist Greta Thunberg from reaching the shores of Gaza.  Likud party Knesset member and current Minister of Defense Israel Katz said Sunday that he had given instructions…

California Hauls Abandoned Crane Barges Out of San Joaquin Delta   California is taking action to address the menace of derelict vessels in the expansive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta after conducting the largest single-site commercial abandoned vessel abatement and site restoration in the state’s history. California has been grappling with the problem of abandoned vessels for decades,…

Australia Honors Lost American Warships From WWII With New Protections   The wrecks of three U.S ships, including the first U.S Navy aircraft carrier to be lost during World War II, are set to be accorded special preservation status after Australia added their final resting place off the Australian coast was added to the country’s…

Small Craft, Big Impact: Ukraine’s War and the Rise of New-Tech Warships   [By David Kirichenko] Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shocked the international order. What surprised the world even more was Ukraine’s ability to resist. While many in the West believed Ukraine would only hold out for a few weeks, the war…

Second Bulker Refloated After Grounding off Sweden   A Panama-flagged bulker, Meshka (35,829 dwt), which went aground a week ago in the Øresund between Sweden and Denmark was refloated during the day on Saturday, June 7. The Swedish Coast Guard reports the operation proceeded without problem or pollution and the ship was moved to port…

Australia Releases Report Confirming Finding Cook’s HMB Endeavour Wreck   The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) released its final report detailing its conclusion that a wreck lying on the seabed in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is the famed HM Bark Endeavour, which carried Capt. James Cook and his crew on their voyage of exploration to…