How Far Has E-Procurement Come in the Maritime Community?
As dot-com firms that lacked a solid foundation disappeared from the landscape, the strongest are left standing amid the rubble. It is worth noting that at the height…
Procedures for Detaining Crewmembers on Board Vessels
The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) have developed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for identifying crewmembers on board vessels coming to U.S.
Royal Caribbean Improves Earnings Estimates
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has provided an update on the current outlook for bookings and yields. During 2002, as booking patterns improved, analysts have raised their earnings estimates…
Stelmar Announces Renewal of Contracts
Stelmar Shipping Ltd. announced that it has secured time charter contracts for two of its existing double hull Panamax tankers, the Polys and the Cleliamar. Both tankers…
CP Ships Takes Delivery of TMM Colima
CP Ships Limited has taken delivery of the 3200 teu TMM Colima. It was delivered on schedule by China Shipbuilding Corporation in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. TMM Colima is…
Investigation into Fire on M/V SSG CARTER Released
The U.S. fire on board the SSG EDWARD A. CARTER JR on July 14, 2001. Two mariners died during the fire. of heavy fuel oil from the overflow tanks to the settling tank.
LIMBURG Probe to be Carried Out Jointly
The Yemen Government released a Statement of 10 October saying that the Yemeni and French investigations into the incident on the French oil tanker LIMBURG are to go jointly.
MAIB Reports on Grounding of M/V WILLY
According to a report issued by the U.K. Department for Transport, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has concluded that the grounding of the M/V WILLY…
Study Backs Up Cruise Industry’s Commitment to Environment
The results of two recent environmental studies regarding cruise ship wastewater discharge provide new and significant scientific insight into the low environmental…
James Loy to be Nominated as Under Secretary of Transportation for Security
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate eleven individuals and appoint four individuals to serve in his administration. The President intends to nominate Admiral James M.
Markey Machinery Supplies Equipment For Response
Markey Machinery Co., Inc. of Seattle,Washington has supplied equipment onboard Crowley's tug Response. The bow of the tug is fitted with a WYW-20-48 hydraulic…
Storm Grounds Barge with 22,000 Gallons of Fuel
Foss Maritime working with federal, state and local agencies are making preparations to remove more than 22,000 gallons of diesel oil from a barge grounded near…
Sperry Marine to Supply Bridge Electronics for New Fisheries Research Vessel
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Sperry Marine business unit has been selected to supply a state-of-the-art navigation and communication systems for the Norwegian…
Coast Guard to Enforce Fleet Week Security Zones
Various U.S. Coast Guard units, including elements from the newly commissioned Maritime Safety and Security Teams, will work with local law enforcement agencies…
MHI to Continue Construction of Diamond Princess
The Diamond Princess, which is currently under construction in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki Shipyard, suffered a major fire on October 1.P&O Princess Cruises…
Raj: Halter is Back
Anil Raj, president and COO of Halter Marine, in many ways embodies the company for which he has worked for the last 15 years. Joining as the Director, Engineering…
A Tale of Tugs of Two Cities
There's N.Y., and there's N.Y., N.Y. They are as unalike as two places can be. One is upstate, the other is downstate. One is composed of small and medium-size towns…
Conrad Rides the (Expansion) Tide
The business of predicting the course of financial markets has led many companies - good and bad, large and small - to ruin. Perhaps, then, it is better to rely on tenets of nature…
New Demands on Pilot Boats
The tightening of port security in the United States has impacted practically every vessel that operates in U.S. harbors. That includes the small, often-forgotten…
NYFD Marine Division Answers the Call
Just after 10 o'clock on a Tuesday morning in July the call came that a car had rolled off Randall's Island into the East River. Chief Bill Siegel, at his desk at…
