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Peter F. Black
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⚓︎ Maritime attorney also into democracy, space law, and digital rights.

#maritime #shipping #DCstatehood #NAFO #netneutrality
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China Jams Communications During a Peaceful Philippine Resupply Mission maritime-executive.com/article/chin...
China Jams Communications During a Peaceful Philippine Resupply Mission
Philippine officials told the Associated Press that they completed a mostly peaceful resupply mission to their outpost on the beached vessel BRP Sierr...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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NTSB: Loose Electrical Wire Led to Dali Hitting Francis Scott Key Bridge maritime-executive.com/article/ntsb...
NTSB: Loose Electrical Wire Led to Dali Hitting Francis Scott Key Bridge
[Breaking] A simple oversight in labeling an electrical wire was a likely causal factor in the blackout aboard the boxship Dali, resulting in the ves...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Houthis Announce End of Red Sea Shipping Attacks

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Houthis Announce End of Red Sea Shipping Attacks
In a significant change in direction, the rebel Houthi leadership in Yemen have declared that they will bring to an end their declared campaign again...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Panama Canal Begins Process to Select Operator for New Terminals www.maritime-executive.com/article/pana...
Panama Canal Begins Process to Select Operator for New Terminals
The Panama Canal has launched what is expected to be a year-long process to select the operators for new terminals to be built at each end of the can...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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BP-JERA JV Pulls Plug on US Offshore Wind Citing Unfavorable Market maritime-executive.com/article/bp-j...
BP-JERA JV Pulls Plug on US Offshore Wind Citing Unfavorable Market
The joint venture company formed between BP and JERA announced that it has decided not to proceed at this time with the development of its Beacon Wind...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Dozens From Flooding in Alaskan Villages maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...
U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Dozens From Flooding in Alaskan Villages
After devastating winds and seas from the last remnants of Typhoon Halong swept through the Bering Sea, the U.S. Coast Guard and state agencies are c...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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joint human-orca hunting maritime-executive.com/article/orca...
Orcas Sink Sailing Yacht With Family of Five Off Portugal
Last week, a family of five survived a sinking off the coast of Portugal, which was initiated by the latest aggressive encounter between the local orc...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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10 Years Later, Mariners Remember the Loss of the El Faro maritime-executive.com/article/10-y...
10 Years Later, Mariners Remember the Loss of the El Faro
It has been 10 years since the con/ro steamship SS El Faro went down with all hands in a hurricane, and it remains one of the deadliest maritime disa...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Landmark High Seas Treaty Set to Become International Law Next Year maritime-executive.com/article/land...
Landmark High Seas Treaty Set to Become International Law Next Year
Last week, the landmark Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) high seas treaty reached the milestone of 60 state ratifications, which is t...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"I'm afraid to go fishing" - White House Releases Video of Third Caribbean Boat Strike maritime-executive.com/article/whit...
White House Releases Video of Third Caribbean Boat Strike
On Friday, the Trump administration announced a third strike on a suspected smuggling boat in the Caribbean, resulting in the deaths of three individ...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Federal agencies are sharing data even when they’re not supposed to, EFF’s @cooperq.com told @kqednews.kqed.org. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE… it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further dragnet surveillance.” www.kqed.org/news/120556...
How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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MARAD's Center for Maritime Innovation Provides Unique Opportunities for American Maritime Industry www.joneswalker.com/en/insights/...
MARAD's Center for Maritime Innovation Provides Unique Opportunities for American Maritime Industry
On the tide swell of current national policy efforts around advancing US maritime commercial interests (including the SHIPS for America Act and the Trump Administration's RESTORING AMERICA’S MARITIME…
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August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Bulker Suffers Cargo Hold Explosion in Baltimore Harbor maritime-executive.com/article/bulk...
August 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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CEO of Hawaii Shipbuilding Company Sentenced to 13 Years for $29M Investment Fraud Scheme, President Received Two Year Sentence www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-h...
CEO of Hawaii Shipbuilding Company Sentenced to 13 Years for $29M Investment Fraud Scheme, President Received Two Year Sentence
A formerly married couple was sentenced yesterday for their roles in a more than decade-long scheme to defraud hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars in connection with Semisub Inc.…
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August 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Dali’s Owner/Operator Sue Hyundai Claiming Manufacturing Defect maritime-executive.com/article/dali...
Dali’s Owner/Operator Sue Hyundai Claiming Manufacturing Defect
As a federal court in Baltimore continues to hear pre-trial motions and collect evidence for the claims pending related to the containership Dali’s Ma...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Divers Recover the Ship's Bell of WWI Wreck HMS Vanguard www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/d...
Divers Recover the Ship's Bell of WWI Wreck HMS Vanguard
For the first time in more than a century iconic artifacts from a tragic WWI battleship are above the waves – recovered from the wreck in Scapa Flow....
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July 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ship Manager Pleads Guilty and Agrees to $1.75M Fine in MARPOL Case www.maritime-executive.com/article/ship...
Ship Manager Pleads Guilty and Agrees to $1.75M Fine in MARPOL Case
The U.S. Department of Justice filed the terms of a settlement, which involves a guilty plea by Eagle Ship Management, related to a 2022 oil dumping...
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July 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Houthis Release Video of the Sinking of the Magic Seas www.maritime-executive.com/article/hout...?
Houthis Release Video of the Sinking of the Magic Seas
Yemen's Houthi rebels have released video footage of the sinking of the bulker Magic Seas, which they attacked and boarded last weekend. The foot...
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July 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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There is always a tweet.
A Trump tweet from Nov 2013 "Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!"
June 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/b...
Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.
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June 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Pirates Board Cargo Ship and Abduct One Injured Crewmember maritime-executive.com/article/pira...
Pirates Board Cargo Ship and Abduct One Injured Crewmember
Another cargo ship has been attacked in a violent incident of piracy off the coast of West Africa between Nigeria and São Tomé and Príncipe. Details o...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Crew of Futuristic Carrier USS Ford Will Wear Electronic Fatigue Trackers maritime-executive.com/article/crew...
Crew of Futuristic Carrier USS Ford Will Wear Electronic Fatigue Trackers
The crew of the futuristic carrier USS Gerald R. Ford are about to test out an equally futuristic personnel-monitoring device. On their next deploymen...
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June 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Massive Crane Vessel Arrives in U.S. to Support Offshore Wind Install www.maritime-executive.com/article/mass...
Massive Crane Vessel Arrives in U.S. to Support Offshore Wind Install
The massive semi-submersible crane vessel Thialf has been drawing a lot of local attention since the vessel arrived in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island...
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May 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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NTSB Makes Initial Visit to Damaged Mexican Sail Training Ship www.maritime-executive.com/article/ntsb...
NTSB Makes Initial Visit to Damaged Mexican Sail Training Ship
On Tuesday, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board met for the first time with their Mexican counterparts aboard the Mexican Nav...
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May 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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FMC Launches Investigation Into Flags of Convenience www.millsblack.com/news/2025/fm...
FMC Launches Investigation Into Flags of Convenience — Mills Black LLP
Executive Summary The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has announced a new nonadjudicatory investigation into whether the vessel flagging laws, regulations, or practices of foreign countries,…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM