MarineCraft News Desk 
A Mexican national who was the skipper of a small boat that capsized during an immigrant-smuggling attempt at California's southern maritime boundary has been sentenced to a long term in prison.
A dropped spanner from thirty metres carries roughly the energy of a small car at walking pace. Offshore lifting has more paperwork around it than almost any other routine task, and the reason is that the failure mode is measured in fatalities rather than delays. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 September 2026 … Read more
The Wind of Ocean, the first service operation vessel (SOV) built by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (ZPMC) for French shipping group LD Armateurs (LDA), was successfully launched recently.
On Saturday, U.S. Central Command reported that Iranian forces attempted to hit a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles, prompting a severe American counterstrike that disabled two Iranian tankers and destroyed a third. In a statement, CENTCOM said that…
[By: Everllence] Everllence has announced a new technology called Engine Supported Air Lubrication (ESAL). To coincide with the announcement, the company has released an industry white paper entitled, “A leap in vessel energy efficiency advancement with engine-supported air lubrication”.
(Article originally published in July/Aug 2026 edition.) The winds of the digital age and artificial intelligence seem like a tempest for the marine industry.
