Exmar Signs for Two Large Gas Carriers
EXMAR has signed a newbuilding contract for 2 Very Large Gas Carriers at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. of South Korea. The newbuildings will have a capacity of 84…
OSI Buys Mapcon Mapping Consultants
Offshore Systems International Ltd. Consultants Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. with a solid position in the U.S. data production) market. US$50,000 in common shares of OSI at market price.
Personal Injury Limitation
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that letters from an injured diver to his employer referencing claims under the Jones Act and for unseaworthiness…
Bill Re Marine Scholarships
Representative Inslee (D-WA) introduced a bill (H.R. 1191) to establish a National Marine Scholarship Program to recruit and prepare graduate students for careers in the fields of marine science…
Diana Shipping joins IPO Shipping Fleet
Diana Shipping on Tuesday filed to sell 12.375 million shares at $15-$17 each in a bid to raise up to $210 million in its initial public offering. It's the latest…
Shipping Pool Agreements Could be Illegal
office of law firm Wikborg Rein. in 2005 or 2006 making some existing pool agreements illegal. create market dominance and increase barriers to entry. jurisdictions this already makes them illegal…
Aker Yards to build Container Vessels for F. Laeisz
Aker Ostsee in Germany, a part of Aker Yards, has been awarded contracts to build two container vessels of the type Aker CS 2700 for Reederei F. Laeisz GmbH in Rostock (Germany).
HMM Orders Wartsila Engines
Four 8600 TEU container ships contracted by Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd (HMM) for building at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (two ships) and Hyundai Samho Heavy…
Excel Maritime Agrees to Acquire MV Fiona Bulker
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd a shipping company specializing in the seaborne transportation of dry bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grains, announced that…
Coast Guard Crew Returns After First Patrol
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tornado returned to their homeport in Pascagoula, Miss., Sunday after completing their first patrol since the ship was commissioned in December.
Safety Board Determines Cause of SI Ferry Accident
The National Transportation Safety Board today determined that the probable cause of a fatal accident involving a Staten Island ferry was the assistant captain's…
NY’s New ‘Taxi Driver’
If you want to call yourself a taxi in New York, you've got things to live up to. Take tradition. A New York taxi always beat everybody to the punch. It was the first away when the light changed…
Harrison Brothers Contributes to a Mission of Mercy
Ever once in a while a truly unique marine story comes along: one where a shipyard is giving back not to the community in which it is located, but to the world.
AAPA: Ports Concerned about Security
Public seaports across the United States are weighing in this week on the Administration's requested Fiscal Year 2006 federal budget. Ports are deeply concerned…
Bush Budget Highlights Marine Transport
Released on February 7, President Bush's FY 2006 proposed budget requests the highest funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program in many years.
Congress Voids Certain Ad Valorem Duties on Ship Repairs
By Jeanne M. Charles T. Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (the Act), signed into law on December 3, 2004, contains a provision that reverses a final rule…
Obituary: A.J. Rizzo
A.J. Rizzo died Saturday, February 26, 2005, at home in Metairie, La. at 66 years old. A.J. was a colleague of mine. He was a marine writer par excellence who valued…
Sheriff Gets New Fire/Rescue Boat
The Broward County Sheriff's Office Department of Fire Resucue and Emergency Service in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. has accepted delivery of Marine 6, its new FireStorm 40 Fire/Rescue boat.
Bollinger to Build Two for Bouchard
Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. of Lockport, La., and Bouchard Coastwise Management, Corp., Hicksville, N.Y., one of the largest operators of double hull articulated tug/barge…
Editor's Note
As we go to press with our annual cruise shipping focus in conjunction with the Miami cruise shipping show, the industry’s eyes are not necessarily on newbuild projections and new technologies…
