A Tidal Wave of New Regulations
The management ballast water discharges began with the enactment of the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (NANPCA) as an effort to prevent the introduction of additional invasive species into the Great Lakes. Since then, NANPCA was amended by the National Invasive Species Act of 1996 and the issue has progressed over the intervening years to a much larger campaign to regulate all vessel discharges into U.S. waters.
Controlling Maritime Security Cost
It is expected that the USCG will begin stepping up compliance measures and holding companies more accountable to the codes and regulations of the Maritime Security Act of 2002 (MTSA).
Euroseas Buys a Containership
The company also signed a memorandum of agreement to purchase the M/V Maersk Noumea, an intermediate containership of 34,677 dwt and 2,556 TEU built in 2001 in South Korea.
Goldman Sachs Reported Out of Daewoo Sale
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is out as co-adviser of the sale of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., according to a report on Bloomberg. According to the Bloomberg report…
Safe Bulkers Plans IPO
anticipation of a planned initial public offering of its common stock. Safe Bulkers is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes…
Aker Solutions Wins FPSO Deal
"We are very enthused by winning the front-end design work for the Goliat Development Project; Goliat is considered a strategically important project for Aker Solutions…
Ulstein Design Wins Order for 12
Ulstein Design AS agreed with Guangdong Machinery Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. (GMG) to provide design services for 12 vessels of ULSTEIN A801 type. Ulstein Design has sold 60 ship designs since 2000. 25 are sold to Ulstein Verft in Norway. 35 are sold to shipyards in China, Spain, The Nederlands, Brazil and Dubai. “It has been a rewarding process to develop the ULSTEIN A801 design together with GMG, and we hope that this is the beginning of a lasting…
Braemer Rebrands Business Divisions
Braemar Shipping Services plans to rename companies within its group to create greater awareness of the breadth of its maritime services. business, will change to Braemar Falconer.
The “Near-Zero” Emission Tug
For the development of the Hydrogen Hybrid Harbor Tug, WorldWise Marine worked with Dutch tug operators Iskes from IJmuiden and Smit from Rotterdam, which are expected…
Superyacht Tech Set for SMM 2008
A number of the leading superyacht builders will be present at the SMM 2008. Lürssen is rated by the British trade magazine “The Yacht Report” as the world’s number one yacht builder…
Hitachi Completes Wärtsilä RT-flex CR Engine
Hitachi is the eleventh engine builder in the Wärtsilä family of engine licensees to manufacture Wärtsilä RT-flex electronically-controlled common-rail marine engines.
TOTAL Increases Le Havre Options with New Barge
Total Marine Fuels has increased its bunkering capacity at the port of Le Havre and at the Port 2000 container facilities with the delivery of its new bunkering barge, FS Sara. At the same time, TMF is also making low-sulphur fuel oil available at the French port for the first time. The double-hulled seagoing FS Sara has capacity for 7,500 MT of fuel oil and 500 MT of MGO, and is to start work immediately.
SCI hosts MLC Roundtable
roundtable discussion on the U.S. 2006 (MLC). mechanisms for protecting seafarers’ rights. focused both how the MLC 2006 evolved, and the possible benefits and disadvantages of U.S. ratification.
ECO Orders 150-ton Offshore Crane
The three cranes are identical and belong to MacGREGOR’s well-known HMC 3568 series, with a 150-tonne single-line winch capable of working in depths down to 3,000m.
$29m in Grants for Port Security in Washington
The funding for these grants was included in the Fiscal Year 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. Senator Murray, a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security…
