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Coast Guard suspends search for missing cruise ship crew member
Lisa J. Huriash 27 Dec 2018 https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-coast-guard-two-searches...
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The Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for a Royal Caribbean crew member who went overboard off the Harmony of the Seas about 270 miles from Puerto Rico.

Arron Hough, 20, of the United Kingdom went overboard on Christmas Day, the Coast Guard said.

Major container ships collision at Nansha port, watch VIDEO
Mikhail VoytenkoNewsDecember 26, 2018 https://maritimebulletin.net/2018/12/26/major-container-ships-collision-...

Finding More Ways to Capitalize on Digitalization
Derek Novak 2018-12-26 https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/finding-more-ways-to-capit...

The adoption of “smart” technology – for both equipment and systems – will escalate across the maritime sector in 2019, even if the verifiable benefits of the projects that start this year will take longer to emerge.

How Cargo Ships Can Go Green
28/12/2018 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/how-cargo-ships-can-go-green/

Shipping is the lifeblood of global commerce — more than 80 percent of world trade goes by water. But the industry is also an environmental menace, producing as much carbon dioxide annually as Germany.

Why the Maritime Industry Should Embrace 3D Printing for Spare Parts
E. Kostidi and N. Nikitakos 27 Dec 2018 https://3dprint.com/232678/why-the-maritime-industry-should-embrace-3d-p...

More areas under Signal No. 1 due to TD ‘Usman’
Daphne Galvez -December 27, 2018

MANILA, Philippines — The weather bureau placed more areas under Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 1 as Tropical Depression “Usman” inched closer to the country.

Ship crew member missing off Rotterdam coast
Janene Pieters December 26, 2018 https://nltimes.nl/2018/12/26/ship-crew-member-missing-rotterdam-coast

Dutch rescue organization KNRM searched for hours for a missing crew member of a ship anchored off the coast or Rotterdam on Tuesday. Multiple lifeboats, helicopters and a Coast Guard plane were deployed in the search, but the man was not found.

Court in Crimea refuses to release 20 out of 24 Ukrainian seamen captured near Kerch Strait
26.12.2018 https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/555750.html

The Supreme Court of Crimea on December 26 refused to release the last five naval seamen out of the crews of three Ukrainian naval vessels captured in the Black Sea on November 25 after considering complaints against their arrest, an Interfax correspondent has reported.

Cargo ship capsized and sank in Singapore Strait
NIKOLAY TORKIN December 25, 2018 https://maritimebulletin.net/2018/12/25/cargo-ship-capsized-and-sank-in-...

Cargo ship pushed aground by storm, Black sea, Russia
STEPAN KOTCHERGA December 25, 2018 https://maritimebulletin.net/2018/12/25/cargo-ship-pushed-aground-by-sto...