Viewpoints

Members of the Port Townsend Shipwrights Cooperative talk with students at the Northwest Maritime Center Career day. Bruce Buls photo.

Introducing kids to maritime careers

Bruce Buls

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore occurred following a collision with a container ship. Jay Fleming Photography.

The Baltimore blame game

Jerry Fraser

In May 2019, Shell started production at Appomattox, a deepwater oil and gas development that is Shell’s largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell photo

Is Shell Oil showing how to manage the energy transition?

G. Allen Brooks

NTSB investigators boarded the cargo vessel Dali, which struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024. Peter Knudson/NTSB photo.

Baltimore bridge collapse shows U.S. ports vulnerable

Kirk Moore

ACE photo

A tale of two bridges

Jerry Fraser

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore occurred following a collision with the 984’x157’ container ship Dali, which was outbound from Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fleming Photography Ⓒ

Key Bridge mistake

Bruce Buls

Legal issues surrounding offshore oil and gas operations are complicated. BP photo

Offshore operations: State, local and federal legal complexities

Crescent Towing photo

Learn the vernacular

Joel Milton

Ken Hocke photo

Use close calls to your advantage

Dan Bookham

Launch of U.S. Coast Guard cutter Argus. Justin Sides courtesy of Eastern Shipbuilding Group photo

Are recruiting problems getting worse?

Ken Hocke

Hess holds a 30% interest in a huge Guyana oil deposit it is developing in partnership with ExxonMobil and Chinese national oil company CNOOC. Hess image.

Chevron/Hess acquisition and the Guyana asset

G. Allen Brooks

Tugs assist the 751' bulk carrier Jag Aalok on the Mississippi River. Doug Stewart photo.

State of the maritime industry through the eyes of Wells Fargo SVP Brett Hewitt

Ben Hayden

Steve Nevey, Washington State Ferries' Assistant Secretary. WSF photo

Washington State Ferries gets new boss

Bruce Buls