Bunkerfuels Korea Team Joins OceanConnect
OceanConnect President Thomas K. Reilly announced today that the entire Bunkerfuels Korea team has joined OceanConnect, effective immediately. Bunkerfuels is owned by World Fuel Services…
Glenn Joins MLA Board of Directors
Bobby Glenn, an attorney with the law firm of Hunter Maclean, was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors for the Maritime Law Association (MLA) of the United States.
Nova Group Secures Contract
Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii. Project B. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured…
Vastar Horn Mountain Spar Installation Completed
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) contracted C & C Technologies, Inc. and alliance partner, Century Subsea, for the Vastar Resources, Inc. Horn Mountain SPAR Project.
OTAL to Move its Port Operations in Amsterdam
OT Africa Line (OTAL ) is to move its port operations in Amsterdam from the Ceres Amsterdam Marine Terminal to the USA Terminal, a new deep sea terminal and multimodal…
MCA Reports Fatal Accident
On August 22, the Falmouth Coastguard received a call on channel 16 from a United Kingdom registered cable ship, Wave Sentinel, requesting medical assistance for…
FMC Declines to Expedite Appeal Process
and expedite its appeal had been denied by the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). towing services in the port and another alleging unreasonable refusal to deal or negotiate.
USACE to Conduct Boston Harbor Navigation Study
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a feasibility study and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to determine the navigation-related needs of the harbor…
Execs Charged and Corporations Plead Guilty to Pollution
A federal grand jury in Anchorage indicted a corporate director, two corporate managers, a ship's captain and a first engineer for their roles in an ocean pollution…
Search for Missing Boater Suspended
The Coast Guard suspended its search at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday for missing boater Jason Henderson. The search for Henderson, 30, lasted seven days and covered more than 220…
Mississippi River Commission Schedules Meeting For Friday
Dock, at mile 53 on the Houma Navigation Canal. communities along the Mississippi River. August 11 in St. Paul, Minn. directly address their views to members of the Commission.
Spinnaker Reveals Radical Pay Changes
Maritime recruitment specialist, Spinnaker Consulting, has warned that radical pay structure changes for UK shipbrokers are resulting in brokers wanting to move out of competitive broking.
Austal Delivers Lilia Concepcion to Conferry
The delivery voyage of the 282 ft. vehicle-passenger ferry Lilia Concepcion built by Austal Ships included a number of highlights, including a Panama Canal first…
OPUS 2002 Scheduled For December
Barcelona. resolution, carriage of goods by sea, terrorism and salvage. The forum is divided into four sessions. Each session will end with a debate with participants…
ITIC Alerts Ship Agents to Latest Smuggling Scam
Smugglers are using more inventive methods to move illegal immigrants around the world, warns the International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC). Ship agents…
GlobalSantaFe Announces Senior Management Change
GlobalSantaFe Corporation reported that executive vice president of finance and Administration Seals McCarty has elected to take early retirement from the company…
Marine Software to Supply Maintenance System for Hebridean Spirit
U.K. based software house Marine Software Ltd was commissioned by Hebridean Island Cruises to set up their Marine Planned Maintenance system for the M.V Hebridean…
Keppel FELS Delivers Structures For Rig
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has fabricated and delivered the sophisticated structures of the Maersk DSS-20-CAS-M semi-submersible to its subsidiary, Caspian Shipyard Company Ltd (CSC) in Baku…
United Defense Shipyard Wins Ship Repair Contract
United Defense Industries, Inc. announced today the U.S. Navy's award to Southwest Marine (SWM) of the advanced planning segment of the contract for dry docking…
Court Rules Filipino Seafarers are not "Regular Employees"
The Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled that Filipino seafarers, in many cases, are not "regular employees" as that term is defined in the laws of the Philippines.
