Mercy Ships Returns to Ghana With Its Largest Hospital Ship
[By Mercy Ships] The Global Mercy, following her recent field service in Sierra Leone and scheduled annual maintenance period, arrived at the Port of Tema yesterday.
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Legal Battle for Germany to Sell Oil From Detained Shadow Tanker Drags On
The legal battle over the potential seizure and sale of the crude oil cargo aboard a shadow fleet tanker detained in Germany continues. The tanker, which is considered stateless, has remained since January 2025 anchored off a popular resort island…
Port of Galveston Awarded $7.4M in Mobility Grants
[By Port of Galveston] With a boost of $7.4 million in grant funding, the Port of Galveston is investing more than $8.5 million in six new projects to continue improving vehicle and pedestrian mobility and safety in and around the…
DP World and World Food Programme Deliver Rice to Africa
[By DP World and World Food Programme] The pro-bono arrangement covering part of the ocean freight costs from India to East Africa will support WFP humanitarian response operations in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda, where millions face…
Why Firefighting Equipment Audits Fail on Paperwork, Not Hardware
Ships rarely fail firefighting audits because the equipment is broken. They fail because nobody can prove it was maintained. The extinguisher works, the pump runs, the system is charged, and the finding is written anyway, because the record that should sit behind each of those things is missing, late, or signed by the … Read more
Finding and Verifying Offshore Technicians
The hard part of staffing an offshore scope is rarely finding people who can do the work. It is finding people whose certificates prove they can, are valid in the right jurisdiction, and are not about to expire halfway through the rotation. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more