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Underwater Stern Tube Seal Repairs in Algeciras and Antwerp

The Maritime Executive 02 Apr 2025
Both ships were experiencing oil leaks, necessitating an immediate on-site repair ... Keeping container ship on schedule ... We specialize in underwater maintenance and repairs on all components of a ship’s propulsion system and hull.
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Piraeus Port in Greece Achieves Record-Breaking Revenues and Profits in 2024

Greek City Times 02 Apr 2025
An aerial view captured on July 10, 2023, shows the massive container ship OOCL PIRAEUS docking at Piraeus ... Coastal shipping revenues grew by 6.5%, and ship repair activities recorded a slight uptick.
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Activities of the Greek Ship Repairing Industry (ELSTAT - Hellenic Statistical Authority)

Public Technologies 02 Apr 2025
The Survey on the Greek ship repairing activity is conducted since 2000 on an annual basis and its purpose is to monitor the ship repairing activity by recording statistical data on the number and basic characteristics of the repaired vessels.
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Compliance Assurance

The Maritime Executive 02 Apr 2025
Merchant ships have at least five major waste streams – exhaust, bilge water, solid waste, ballast water and sewage – each with stringent limits ... The ship would deballast into the barge at full speed, and the water would be treated later.
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Flor de la Mar: A Lost Shipwreck Worth $2.6 Billion

Colombia One 01 Apr 2025
Launched in 1502, the Flor de la Mar, or “Flower of the Sea,” was one of the most impressive ships in the Portuguese fleet ... Despite its grandeur, the ship was plagued by structural issues and frequent repairs, earning a reputation for its flaws.
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Greece's Piraeus port reports record revenues, profits in 2024

Xinhua 01 Apr 2025
In coastal shipping, revenue rose by 6.5 percent, while a marginal increase was recorded in ship repair activities ... In 2016, China COSCO Shipping Corporation (COSCO) acquired a majority stake in PPA, increasing its ownership to 67 percent by 2021 ... .
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San Diego’s NASSCO awarded $64M to repair, update USS Harpers Ferry

The San Diego Union-Tribune 31 Mar 2025
General Dynamics-NASSCO has been awarded nearly $64 million to repair and modernize the USS ...
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Governor: ASTRO bags $40M deal to bring 3D printed ship part industry to Guam

Guam Pacific Daily News 30 Mar 2025
The governor, talking with Hegseth, underscored that the quick availability of parts on the island would reduce downtime for ship repair ... in the region, and pointed to Guam’s shuttered ship repair facility, closed since 1997.
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We’re going to need more ships

The Vindicator 29 Mar 2025
Obviously, the ability to quickly build ships and repair them during a war is a major strategic advantage ... We’re a long way from when Admiral Nimitz could insist that the USS Yorktown get repaired in three days after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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Lima Public Library Book Reviews

Lima Ohio 29 Mar 2025
FICTION. Elphie. A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire ... Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg ... The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian ... Twist by Colum McCan ... He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship ... NONFICTION ... .
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It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life

The Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 2025
I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast of Africa ... It took the ship more than a month to find the rupture and complete the repair ... Once upon a time, we had ships.
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Vicksburg Shipyard announces new vessel repair and maintenance operations in Warren County

The Enterprise-Tocsin 28 Mar 2025
Starting immediately, the vessel repair and maintenance company will create 44 jobs ...The Mississippi River is a vital passageway to domestic and international markets for so many companies with extensive shipping needs,” said Gov.
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A year after the Baltimore bridge collapse, a long road to recovery is ahead

Chatanooga Times Free Press 28 Mar 2025
BALTIMORE (AP) — A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders are honoring the six construction workers who were killed when the road they were repairing buckled underneath them.
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IMarEST Announces 2025 Award Winners

The Maritime Executive 28 Mar 2025
He also serves as a committee member for the Ship Maintenance, Repair, and Safety Special Interest Group at the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) and is the recipient of the Stanley Gray Fellowship.
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