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BVLOS Approval: What It Unlocks Offshore
Flying a drone along a hundred kilometres of pipeline, or out to an offshore platform, means flying it where the pilot cannot see it. That single step, beyond visual line of sight, is where casual drone work ends and a formal safety case be…
Life-Saving AppliancesLiferaft Servicing: How Certification Quietly LapsesA liferaft can sit in its canister for years and look perfect from the outside while quietly going out of certification. The rules that keep it valid…
HSE & ComplianceThe ISM Code as a Working Tool, Not a BinderEvery ship over 500 tons carries a Safety Management System. On the best-run vessels it shapes how the crew actually works. On too many others it is a…
Drones & UASMethane Monitoring by Drone: What Buyers Now ExpectMethane is invisible, worth money, and a powerful greenhouse gas. Regulators and buyers no longer accept an estimate of how much is leaking. They want…
Florida’s Governor Backs New Shipyard Proposal in Pensacola
On Wednesday, the Pensacola shipyard proposal known as "Project Maeve" received a meaningful gesture of support from Florida Gov. Ron Desantis' administration: a $9 million city grant for infrastructure improvements related to…
Read more →Denmark Practices Heavily-Guarded Convoy Operations in the Baltic
Denmark's military is practicing merchant-ship convoy operations with heavy escort protection in the Baltic, a demonstration of what it would likely deploy in a conflict with a regional adversary. Denmark operates an…
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Putin Signals Tit-for-tat Response to EU Crackdown on “Shadow Fleet”
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize Russian merchant vessels and the commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet said his forces were…
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US Officially Clears GMS to Dismantle Two Seized “Shadow Fleet” Tankers
Dubai-based GMS has won US Government approval to scrap two sanctions-hit oil tankers it acquired, months after securing agreements to recycle four sanctions-hit container ships, the ship recycler told Reuters.The use of…
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Port Everglades Uses Visit of Largest Boxship to Urge Channel Improvements
Port Everglades celebrated the arrival of the largest cargo ship to ever visit the port on August 12. While highlighting the continued growth in the port’s cargo operations, officials also used it…
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