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After a $44 million investment in shore power infrastructure and equipment, all three cruise berths at Pier 66 are now electric. In effect, this advances plans by the facility to become the greenest port in North America with the 2024 Cruise Season seeing more vessels plug into shore power at Pier 66.

On Saturday, Iranian military forces boarded a large containership operated by MSC and directed the ship to sail into Iranian waters. Iranian media is calling the 158,000 dwt MSC Aries an Israeli vessel, but did not make specific accusations leading to the seizure.

Finnish ro/pax operator Viking Line began offering passengers the opportunity to pay for bio-LNG on its voyages last year, and the possibilities for using this sustainable fuel have been growing, the company reported last week

For the first time, contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have brought in the East Coast's biggest crane barge to remove a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The large section of the main span was located in the federal navigation channel, and removing it will help advance the work to clear a "limited access channel" for smaller merchant ships. 

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Maersk is continuing to move forward with the efforts to roll out its fleet of methanol-enabled containerships. This week marked both the naming of the second of the company’s large ocean-going vessels as well the first bunkering in Europe.

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star has returned from her annual voyage to Antarctica, completing a 138-day mission to clear a channel to America's main research station on the frozen continent. The yearly "Operation Deep Freeze" breakout is typically Polar Star's sole assignment, and the aging vessel returns to shipyard each year after completing it. 

The Pentagon is profoundly interested in small, attritable, unmanned solutions that can offset the sheer-mass advantage of America's potential adversaries, particularly in the maritime domain.

Siemens Gamesa is a global leader in the renewable energy industry, specifically in the field of wind power. It is a merger of Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa, two prominent companies in the wind energy sector. Siemens Gamesa specializes in the design, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of wind turbines for onshore and offshore wind farms.

Easy to use and powered by artificial intelligence, Crewlinker’s web application makes it easy for crewing agencies, shipping companies and other employers in the maritime industry to find people in seconds, and with all the necessary competences.

Wärtsilä reports it has signed a long-term Guaranteed Asset Performance agreement with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering Co Ltd (CDWE), a joint venture between CSBC Corporation and DEME Offshore. The agreement covers CDWE’s new 216 meters-long installation vessel, the Green Jade.

U.S.-based shipping company Crowley named its four new LNG-powered containerships that are presently under construction for its Central America service. The company provided the first details of the ships which will both increase capacity and provide more sustainable operations. 

To meet its growing electricity needs in its drive to develop oil resources in remote Arctic regions, Russia has built a floating nuclear power station, a project that detractors deride as a "Chernobyl on ice".

"Power plants are just robots that don't have a brain yet," Peter Kirk, former chief executive of software company NeuCo, told the BBC recently. As indispensable a resource as they are, these generators have a clear need for smarter technology and greater efficiency, which Kirk's company is aiming to serve with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

PSEG Nuclear said it has notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its intent to seek renewed licenses for the Salem Generating Station Units 1 and 2, and the Hope Creek Generating Station.

The Biden administration’s lucrative incentives for hydrogen are slated to only go to “green” producers who use newly built clean energy sources to make the fuel — and some hydrogen producers aren’t happy about it. A long red building stands on the shore of a river, with a blue sky above.

Virgin Atlantic Airways chief executive Shai Weiss sees the UK carrier returning to profit this year after narrowing its pre-tax loss before exceptional items to £139 million ($175 million) in 2023.

The U.S. division of consumer electronic giant Samsung Electronics has returned to the Federal Maritime Commission for the third time filing additional complaints related to service failures from carriers and what it calls unreasonable and excessive charges.

For the second time in less than a year, the Australia Maritime Safety Authority is reporting the successful conviction of a ship’s master and the shipping company for the failure of a ladder which resulted in injuries to a pilot during a transfer.

The unified command for the response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster has warned that clearing Baltimore's main ship channel will be difficult, and on Tuesday, they laid out the details of the daunting challenge ahead.