Author name: Nigel Cranworth

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has just lit the fuse on a new era of maritime innovation, teaming up with COSCO Shipping Group, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Southampton to launch the International Maritime Future Technologies Innovatio

S Somanath, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has called for India to embark on a mission to conquer the oceans through technology, innovation, data integration, and coordinated research. Speaking at the 4th Internatio

Lloyd’s Register (LR), COSCO Shipping Group, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Southampton have just launched the International Maritime Future Technologies Innovation Center—a virtual hub that could reshape how the industry tackle

The maritime industry’s march toward autonomy just took a giant leap forward. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and Shield AI have successfully tested their integrated autonomy solution aboard HII’s ROMULUS unmanned surface vessel (USV), marking a

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and Denmark-based Svitzer have inked a landmark Letter of Intent (LoI) to co-develop electric TRAnsverse tugboats in India, a move that could reshape the global tugboat market and accelerate India’s green maritime ambiti

Teledyne Technologies has completed its acquisition of TransponderTech from Saab AB, marking another bold move in the company’s strategy to dominate maritime technology. This deal, first announced in August, integrates TransponderTech’s automatic ide

Advanced Navigation has just upped the ante in maritime navigation with its latest Boreas 50 series, a compact fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS) designed to tackle the toughest GNSS-denied environments. This isn’t just anot

Cohort plc is bringing its A-game to Indo Pacific 2025, with five of its seven specialist defence businesses descending on Sydney to showcase cutting-edge maritime tech. From anti-submarine warfare to surveillance and communications, the group’s subs

The maritime industry is at a crossroads, and the U.S. shipbuilding sector is no exception. At the recent ABS North America Regional Committee Meeting, industry leaders gathered to dissect the opportunities and hurdles in revitalizing American shipbu

The ocean has always been a realm of mystery, but recent reports of unidentified submersible objects (USOs) off US coastlines are pushing the boundaries of what we thought we knew about underwater activity. Enigma, a non-partisan UFO-tracking platfor