The Australian maritime world has lost one of its great contributors with the death of Robert “Otto” Albert last week. The scion of a wealthy established Sydney family, Otto, in addition to his strong connections with the sea and his business and investment acumen, was a leading but discreet...
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European Council launches new maritime security initiative
The European Council has launched a new defensive maritime security operation with the objective of restoring and safeguarding freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Launched on Monday, February 19, Operation ASPIDES will ensure an EU naval presence in the area where numerous...
Spanish builder secures naval patrol boat orders
Spain’s Aresa Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build eight patrol craft in a series for an unnamed European naval operator. Each boat will have a length of 13 metres and two outboard engines that will deliver a top speed of over 45 knots. The first two units will be delivered to the customer...
COLUMN | Red Sea crisis: What’s really going on and who are the participants? [Naval Gazing]
The greatest maritime security problem currently facing the world is the campaign of attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea and its environs by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The campaign is adding costs and is delaying too many ships’ voyages, as they now often have taken a much longer route around...
COLUMN | Seafarers in the line of fire [Grey Power]
How one relates to the hostilities, wars, and conflict (Kindly choose an appropriate term.) in the Middle East seems to vary a good deal, with the attacks upon shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden being consigned to something of a sideshow. There are endless comments about the effects of...
OPINION | Drought and war hit the choke points
As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again. The disruption inevitably works its way through to the Asia Pacific. Take the Panama...
OPINION | Shipping oil through troubled waters
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have had almost no impact on the oil price, despite the volume of oil shipped through the waterway surging 80 per cent over the last two years because of the war in the Ukraine. Markets more worried about a soft global economy and rising US and Brazilian oil […]
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COLUMN | 2024 by the numbers: Cableships; methanol; the Nigerian Navy; BP and Equinor’s wind woes; Noble in Suriname and Colombia [Offshore Accounts]
We’ve passed Twelfth Night, so let’s look at some key numbers for the year ahead. This week’s lucky lottery numbers are 4, 10, 29, 177, and 470,000. Who is feeling lucky? Four newbuilds for wind: #1 Toyo Nature abhors a vacuum, and as Global Marine Systems, for two decades the former cablelay market leader, sinks […]
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COLUMN | Does the protection of trade matter? [Grey Power]
If there ever was a reason for people to stop whining about their taxes being spent on expensive warships, it is now, with the Red Sea piracy crisis (There is no other way to describe it.) stretching supply chains. But already there have been complaints about US warships being employed to defend...
VESSEL REFIT | Lady Jean – Naval patrol boat converted into floating clinic for Tanzania’s coastal communities
UK defence firm the Babcock International Group has completed conversion work on a former patrol boat that was once operated by the UK Royal Navy to enable it to serve as a floating clinic for areas lacking in medical infrastructure. The Vine Trust, an Edinburgh-based international volunteering charity that supports impoverished and isolated communities in […]
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