By Matthew Hill Nov 15, 2024 (Bloomberg) –The tuna fishing fleet at the center of a $2 billion corruption scandal, which scuttled Mozambique’s economy and triggered court cases across three continents,…
https://gcaptain.com/tuna-boats-at-heart-of-2-billion-mozambique-scandal-up-for-auction/
LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Evangelos Marinakis, a Greek shipping magnate and owner of English Premier League soccer club Nottingham Forest, was on Thursday accused of trying to fix a Greek soccer match,…
Joseph Malinowski, known as “Lieutenant Dan,” defied both a massive hurricane and authorities’ pleas to evacuate, choosing to stay aboard his tiny 22-foot sailboat as Hurricane Milton battered Florida’s west…
https://gcaptain.com/tampa-boater-dubbed-lt-dan-survives-hurricane-milton/
The first two purpose-built Service Operation Vessels (SOV) for the Chinese offshore wind market have been launched at the ZMPC shipyard in China. The two Ulstein-designed SOVs are being built…
https://gcaptain.com/chinas-first-offshore-wind-sovs-launched/
By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – With the big Workboat show coming up in New Orleans this week, gCaptain is taking a look a unique maritime business, of sorts, captained by…
https://gcaptain.com/floating-rickhouses-bourbon-meets-barging/
By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) A drone operator and helicopter pilot captured rare footage of a pod of orcas killing a great white shark near Mossel Bay on the south coast of…
https://gcaptain.com/rare-video-shows-orcas-hunting-white-shark/
By Kristen Shirley (Bloomberg) –It takes a lot to make waves in the Hamptons, but Dom Pérignon has raised the bar on yacht charters out East this summer. Instead of merely popping…
https://gcaptain.com/the-most-expensive-meal-in-the-hamptons-is-a-30000-dinner-cruise/
By Devon Pendleton (Bloomberg) When the superyacht Tango was seized by Spain at the behest of the U.S. last week, it marked a high-profile victory for the Justice Department’s KleptoCapture unit,…
https://gcaptain.com/dojs-kleptocapture-needs-mariners-upkeep-oligarch-superyachts/
HANOI, March 12 (Reuters) – Vietnam has banned Sony’s action movie “Uncharted” from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows a disputed line declared by China to stake its…
https://gcaptain.com/vietnam-blocks-sonys-movie-uncharted-over-disputed-south-china-sea-map/
Back in 2013 Samsung Heavy Industries launched the world’s most complicated ship, Shell Prelude, a 93 metres high behemoth designed to draw gas from under the sea bed and refine…