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The Royal Malaysian Navy confirmed that 39 crewmembers were saved when one of its patrol boats sunk on Sunday, August 25. The vessel the KD Pendekar was a 45-year-old fast attack boat and was on patrol in the area around the southeastern end of the peninsular near the Singapore Strait.

The new Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana appears to have entered its final stage of ramp-up as the first LNG vessel arrived over the weekend expected to begin the cooldown phase of the first train as the plant prepares for production.

In a pioneering project, Eidesvik Offshore as the vessel owner, Equinor as the charterer, and Wärtsilä will proceed with the conversion of an offshore supply vessel (OSV) to operate as an ammonia-fueled vessel.

Kongsberg Maritime which is operating the vessels reports in a collaborative project with Norwegian telecommunications provider Telenor Maritime, the barges will be equipped with Eutelsat OneWeb new flat panel antenna system for a trial that aims to expand shipboard connectivity.

Chinese officials are highlighting the launch of the first of a new generation of highly energy-efficient inland cargo ships. The vessels feature a standardized design for mass production and will be the leaders in the modernization of China’s inland operations.

A Dutch general cargo ship outbound from Canada blacked out Thursday evening in one of the channels of the St. Lawrence Seaway south of Montreal, Canada. The vessel is currently wedged at a 45-degree angle across the waterway blocking navigation.

After a difficult multiday search, Italian rescue divers have found four more bodies inside the wreck of the sailing yacht Bayesian off Sicily, including one "heavily-built man." British outlet The Telegraph reports that tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter - both missing since Monday's sinking - are among the deceased.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it will open a 60-day comment period while soliciting input to lead to the next round of sites planned for a future lease auction. This comes just a week after the first auction was completed for the region.

After failing in two previous attempts against Greece’s Delta Tankers, the Houthis struck a tanker operated by Delta early today in the Red Sea. The situation is still unfolding with a series of at least four attacks and reports of a fire and “material damage,” according to Greece’s Ministry of Shipping.

Scottish ferry operator Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CalMac) is facing further operating challenges with news that the Turkish yard building the first of four new ferries is further delaying delivery.

Nearly five months after the fatal allision of the containership Dali with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, offloading of the vessel has been completed in Norfolk, Virginia. TV station WTKR in Norfolk caught pictures of the vessel in recent days with its decks cleared of containers.

The bulker segment continues to be at the forefront of the deployment of wind-assisted propulsion with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Brazilian mining giant Vale reporting the first retrofit of rotor sails to a capesize bulker.

Testing has begun on the first U.S.-built offshore wind turbine installation vessel, the Charybdis being built to operate for Dominion Energy. The company told investors last week that the expected delivery of the vessel, late this year or early in 2025, remains unchanged but the cost of the project continues to rise as further changes are made for its capabilities.

As part of a wave of measures to stimulate demand, China's government has announced new subsidies to incentivize domestic shipowners to renew their fleets with more efficient, green-fueled tonnage.

A research effort to develop possibly the first floating offshore wind project in the United States received a research lease today from the U.S. Department of the Interior. It comes almost three years after Maine first filed for the research license to further research projects undertaken by the University of Maine.

For the second time in approximately a month, one of CMA CGM’s large containerships, the newly inaugurated CMA CMG Belem (13,000 TEU) has lost boxes overboard in storms off South Africa.

The carrier Minsk was a Kiev-class carrier built in Mykolaiv for the Soviet Navy in 1978. Along with sister ships Novorossiysk and Kiev, she served Russia's navy into the 1990s, when she was decommissioned and put up for sale. She was purchased by a South Korean firm in 1995 and towed to East Asia for scrapping.

Maersk is joining in with a collaboration between Lloyd’s Register and CORE Power that could provide the long-term pathway for nuclear-powered commercial shipping. Using a feeder containership operating in a European port, the collaboration will determine the safety and regulatory considerations and necessary framework for nuclear-powered commercial shipping based on a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

To meet California’s pending emissions regulations for vessels on berth, tankers docking at Shell’s Mormon Island Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles will be using an emission capture and filter system based on movable barges.

Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) have introduced new legislation that would alter the 170-year-old law that limits shipowners' liability when something goes wrong.