US Navy’s Third Littoral Combat Ship Commissioned for Service

  ‘USS Fort Worth Commissioning: Photo credit Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin-led team’s second Littoral Combat Ship, ‘USS Fort Worth’ (LCS 3) commissioned by U.S. Navy in Galveston, Texas. USS Fort Worth, the second of the Freedom-variant in the LCS class, successfully passed Acceptance Trials in May and was delivered to the U.S. Navy in June,…

BMO Offshore Sells First Vessel Black Box

  BMO is proud to announce the first sale of the Vessel Black Box to Frisia Offshore, Germany. The Vessel Black Box is a flexible, integrated vessel movement monitoring system. Innovative sensor solutions from the aerospace industry are used, with superior performance and much lower cost than conventional sensors used in the offshore industry. A…

Four Indonesians survive shipwreck off Japan

  Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Japanese ship FB Horieri Maru, which was carrying 22 crew members, including five Indonesian workers, sank off the Japanese coast after colliding with Panama-registered MV Nikkei Tiger on Saturday last week. The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) team has so far rescued nine people, including four Indonesians. “The four Indonesian people…

2 Ships Collide Off Northeast Japan, 13 Crewmen Missing

  Following a collision with a large cargo ship off northeast Japan, 13 crewmen from a 22-man fishing vessel are missing, according to the Japanese Coast Guard. The 119-ton Horiei Maru and the 25,047-ton Panamanian Nikkei Tiger [pictured in thumb image] collided about 900 kilometers east of Sendai in the Pacific Ocean around 2:30 a.m. Sunday,…