On 18 December 2016, the bulk carrier 'Graig Rotterdam' was discharging cargo at anchor in Alexandria Port. At that day, the bosun fell overboard and into a barge that was secured alongside, after the timber deck cargo stack, on which he was standing, partially collapsed.

Engineers from thyssenkrupp are planning to develop a new type of unmanned underwater vehicle in cooperation with Berlin Technical University, the University of Rostock, Atlas Elektronik and EvoLogics, called Large Modifiable Underwater Mothership.

Under this agreement, the two countries aim to advance Alaska LNG which is Alaska’s strategic gas infrastructure project. A boost in Alaska’s economy and LNG trade between Alaska and China is expected with the parties’ cooperation on LNG marketing, financing and investment.

ENGIE announced the agreement with Total for the sale of its upstream and midstream LNG activities, liquefaction, shipping and international LNG trading. Additionally, Total and Engie will cooperate to promote the use of biogas and renewable hydrogen.

DNV GL presented a Certificate of Fitness product list which includes all products not yet formally assessed by IMO but still subject to a so-called tripartite agreement, relevant for ship owners and managers of chemical tankers and OSVs. 

Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition and Carbon War Room called for shipping’s financial institutions to begin analysing and managing the risks created by the shipping industry’s imminent decarbonisation, during a global Maritime Forum roundtable in London.

With an announcement GTT informed that the shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co. Ltd and CMA CGM, chose the company to design cryogenic tanks for nine LNG-fuelled container ships, that CMA CGM plans to equip with LNG.

The Government of Ontario and Damen Shipyards Group have signed a contract for the design, build and delivery for two “road” ferries to operate in the Canadian waters of the Great Lakes. The ferries will be based in Kingston and Loyalist Township, Ontario.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced the cooperation with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology to apply Fujitsu's artificial intelligence technology for the estimation of vessel performance at sea.

After more than two months at sea, providing disaster relief in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the amphibious warship USS Kearsarge returned to homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on 6th of November, United States Naval Institute said.