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US NAVY: Destroying chemical weapons

18 March 2014

The US Navy Military Sealift Command vessel MV Cape Ray deployed from Portsmouth, Virginia on 27 January forher unique mission to neutralise Syrian chemical...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Arctic transits increase

11 March 2014

Russia’s Northern Sea Route saw 71 ships transport just under 1.4 million tons of cargo in 2013. This was up 50 per cent over...

Sochi Olympics: Winter Olympic line up

11 March 2014

Among the seven passenger ships chartered for use as accommodation ships at the Winter Olympic Games in the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi...

COASTER: Man overboard on Trent

11 March 2014

A Russian crewman from the coaster Sea Melody (1994/3,713dwt) was lost overboard on the night of 18 December 2013 as the vessel was mooring...

US Navy: Up against the clock

4 March 2014

An internal Pentagon assessment of the state of new advanced technologies on the first of the navy’s new class of aircraft carriers has flagged...

Heavylifters: Rolldock series completed

4 March 2014

Germany’s Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has handed over Rolldock Star, the third of four specialised ro-ro semi-submersible heavylift ships it is building for Dutch owner RollDock...

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