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Maritime Publishing acquires Ocean Navigator
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MARITIME PUBLISHING OF SAN DIEGO HAS ACQUIRED the Parent company of Ocean Navigator and its companion publication, Professional Mariner.

The sale included both of Navigator Publishing’s print magazines and their respective websites, newsletters and email marketing products.

The agreement, which closed in mid-March, has Ocean Navigator and Professional Mariner joining Maritime Publishing’s two other magazine titles: Pacific Maritime and Fishermen’s News. Maritime Publishing previously acquired those publications from Philips Publishing Group of Seattle. Both magazines, which ceased publication early in the COVID-19 pandemic, are set to re-launch this spring.

Abrams, an experienced mariner, will serve as publisher for the new media company. Abrams is CEO of Training Resources Maritime Institute (TRLMI) in San Diego, the largest private maritime training facility in the western U.S. Land the parent company of Maritime Publishing.

“We are in the business of providing mariners with knowledge through education,” Abrams said. “Professional Mariner and Ocean Navigator have been providing knowledge through current industry news and original reporting for decades, so they are a natural extension of our existing business. The titles give us the ability to provide mariners with advocacy, news and information about the industries and adventures we train them for.”

Navigator Publishing launched Ocean Navigator in April 1985, and eight years later the company published the first issue of Professional Mariner.

This story is from the May - June 2021 edition of Ocean Navigator.

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