Tag: maritime

Port Authority hires maritime development director

Jun. 13—The Connecticut Port Authority on Thursday announced it has hired U.S. Coast Guard veteran Eric Dussault of Old Saybrook to be its maritime development director, a newly created position. Dussault, who starts on Friday, will be responsible for managing the quasi-public agency’s Small Harbors Improvement Projects Program, or SHIPP, port and harbor dredging projects, […]

Driver gets 3 years in prison for crash that killed 4 Maine Maritime students

Jun. 7—The driver in a crash that killed four Maine Maritime Academy students in December 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison and four years of probation in a Hancock County courtroom Friday. Joshua Goncalves-Radding, 21, of North Babylon, New York, was convicted on four counts of manslaughter, four counts of aggravated operating under […]

Students prepared for maritime work aboard Oliver Hazard Perry

NEWPORT – During his first semester at Maine Maritime Academy, last fall, Andrew Weaver II more than once thought to himself that the course instruction he was receiving sounded familiar. And even some of his Maine Maritime professors weren’t total strangers. A 2023 graduate of North Kingstown High School and a marine transportation and operations […]

Latvia and Finland ‘calmly’ tracking Russian maritime border plans

Latvia and Finland will maintain a calm and factually grounded response to Russia’s surprise legislative project to redefine its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea, leaders of the two countries said on Friday. “It is clear that Russia is looking for new ways for hybrid actions on both our EU and NATO borders. We must […]

Lithuania urges coordinated response to Russian maritime border plans

Lithuania has urged a coordinated response to a Russian legislative project on the possible redefinition of its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea. “We continue to work with our neighbours and partners at both EU and NATO level to ensure a unified response to the situation,” Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė told the BNS news agency […]

Baltic Sea nations react warily to ‘Russian proposal’ to revise maritime border

Leaders around the Baltic Sea have reacted warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region, with Lithuania’s foreign minister calling it an “obvious escalation” that must be met with an “appropriately firm response”. In a draft proposal reported by some Russian media, Russia’s Defence Ministry suggests updating […]

Philippines, New Zealand to Boost Trade, Maritime Security Ties

(Bloomberg) — The Philippines and New Zealand agreed to elevate bilateral ties and cooperate on maritime security, the two nations’ leaders said, amid growing tensions in the South China Sea between Manila and Beijing. Most Read from Bloomberg The relationship between the two countries “will become a comprehensive partnership” in 2026 during the 60th anniversary […]