Eleven sailors were missing at sea on Tuesday from a ship sunk by a drone attack off the coast of Bulgaria, possibly the second deadly sinking of a cargo vessel in the area in a week, prompting Bulgaria to summon Russia's ambassador.Two cargo ships were hit by drones overnight and one was sunk, Bulgarian officials said. Bulgaria stopped short of explicitly accusing Russia of carrying out the attacks but Prime Minister Rumen Radev said their outcome "benefits the Russian Federation".There was no immediate comment from Moscow on the incidents.
HamiltonJet appointed Sam Hamilton as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Sam is the great-grandson of founder Sir Bill Hamilton, and his appointment makes him the fourth generation of the Hamilton family to lead the company.The handover took place at an extraordinary meeting of the Board, held at Irishman Creek Station in the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand. The station is where Bill Hamilton began the business in 1939, and it is where the company's first annual general meeting was held in 1946.
90POE (Ninety Percent of Everything) launched Crew Docs AI, an AI document check built into the passport verification workflow of OpenOcean STUDIO Crew. Crew Docs AI reads each passport as it is uploaded, compares it with the crew record and flags only the fields that need a second look, so errors and compliance issues are caught at verification, not at the airport. It is a practical application of AI to one of the most common causes of failed crew changes.Every crew change depends on the crew record matching the passport.
Ocean Craft Marine (OCM) delivered a 31-ft. (9.5-m) rigid hull inflatable boat to Hopewell Fire & EMS in Hopewell, Va.The vessel serves a dual role: fire and rescue operations for the fire department, and patrol, boarding, and port security missions for the Hopewell Police DepartmentThe boat will also operate as a designated asset of the Maritime Incident Response Team (MIRT) for the Port of Virginia. It adds fire suppression, search and rescue, dive support, and waterborne law enforcement capability to the regional team that protects one of the largest commercial ports on the U.S. East Coast.
Wärtsilä has signed a five-year service agreement with Finnish ferry operator Viking Line covering the passenger ferry Viking XPRS, expanding the companies' maintenance partnership to a third vessel.The agreement covers the vessel's Wärtsilä engines and includes maintenance planning, scheduled spare parts, tailored maintenance support and a dedicated contract manager responsible for overseeing maintenance activities.The contract is designed to improve engine reliability, operational efficiency and vessel availability while providing greater predictability over maintenance costs.
Asia LNG Transport (ALT), a joint venture between NYK and MISC Berhad, has signed a long-term time-charter contract with Malaysia LNG for a newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier that will transport LNG to Japan.The vessel will be constructed by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China, with delivery scheduled for 2028.Following delivery, the carrier will be deployed in LNG transportation services to Japan under the charter agreement.The vessel will have a cargo tank capacity of 18,700 cubic meters and will be equipped with a dual-fuel diesel-electric (DFDE) propulsion system.
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with IWS Fleet, a subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS), to provide vessel design and integrated technology systems for four new commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) intended for offshore wind operations.Kongsberg Maritime's scope includes electrical power systems, navigation and bridge systems, propulsion, deck machinery, dynamic positioning systems and overall system integration.
Marlink has completed the ‘world's first’ upgrade of an existing Intellian C700 Iridium Certus terminal to a fully commissioned Iridium Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) aboard Fugro's offshore supply vessel Fugro Revelation.The upgrade, carried out in partnership with Intellian Technologies and Iridium Communications, enables the vessel to access Iridium GMDSS services without replacing its existing satellite communications terminal.
Hampidjan Advant has signed an agreement with Cadeler to manufacture and supply heavy-duty lifting slings for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm project in the North Sea off the east coast of England.The equipment will be used aboard Cadeler's new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Wind Ace, during construction of the wind farm, which is owned by ScottishPower Renewables.The slings will be manufactured by Hampidjan Baltic in Lithuania using high-modulus polyethylene (HMPE) fiber and designed for heavy-lifting operations involving offshore wind turbine foundations and turbines.
ABS and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance modern commercial nuclear technology at sea. The agreement spans floating power solutions, nuclear-powered vessels and the development of the ports, shipyards and industrial base needed to build and sustain them.Key priorities include concept and feasibility studies for floating nuclear power and nuclear transportation corridors, and support for developing a U.S. shipbuilding sector capable of building and operating nuclear-powered assets safely.
Louisiana-based boatbuilder Metal Shark has been awarded two U.S. Coast Guard Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contracts to produce patrol boats for the maritime forces of Cameroon and the Republic of Georgia. Each contract includes a Metal Shark 38 Defiant patrol boat, transport trailer, spare-parts package, and operator training. The vessels will be constructed at Metal Shark's production facility in Jeanerette, Louisiana.
Finnish marine propulsion provider Steerprop has secured a contract with Hvide Sande Shipyard to supply complete propulsion packages for three Multi-Role Environmental Vessels being built for the Royal Danish Navy. The vessels have been commissioned by the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation and are being built by Orlogsskibe Danmark, a Danish consortium comprising OSK Design, Karstensens Skibsværft and Hvide Sande Shipyard.