As stated by the U.S. Coast Guard, on February 28th, recovery teams were able to retrieve Tagish, a tugboat that sank on December 28th of 2022, and was partially submerged in the National Guard Terminal in Gastineau Channel, close to Juneau, Alaska.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), released a statement mentioning FEDIL Shipping, Luxembourg and the Brazilian Association of Cabotage Owners have become Affiliate Member National Associations. The ICS Board has approved their membership, taking effect from 1 March 2023.

MARAD allocates 12 million dollars funding to Marine Highway Program to expand the use of America's navigable waters.

On February 28th, on Vancouver Island's Fanny Bay, a woman hanging of a dinghy was saved by the crew of a BC Ferries ship, Baynes Sound Connector.

The Finnish Transport Workers' Union (AKT) ended their two-week stevedores' strike. The union made the announcement shortly before 8pm on March 2nd.

Search continues in Oriental Mindoro province, for the sunken cargo ship 'Princess Empress', which carried industrial fuel oil. Approximately 800,000 litres of oil have leaked into the sea, causing a 6km spill. 

DNV issued a statement on the progress of Alexandroupolis Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU). According to DNV, the work to develop Greece’s first  FSRU commenced recently at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore with the conversion of GasLog’s Gaslog Chelsea, recently renamed as Alexandroupoli. 

Bahri, the national shipping company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has signed a non-binding renewable six-month agreement with the Suez Canal Authority with the view to create a joint Egyptian shareholding company to offer maritime transportation services in the Egyptian market.

The Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands (MARIN), has released a new, informative video on TopTier, the joint industry project on container loss. This project is an effort of forty participants in the maritime industry in order to drastically reduce an important issue in container transport. 

Norwegian Cruise Line has consistently opted for greener options for their fuel for the past years. The cruise line has released a new statement in which they claim their last two Prima Class ships are to be modified for methanol as well as traditional fuel use.