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Feature: It's About Time and Money Willamette Star "Stretch"
About a year ago Dan Yates, president of American Waterways, Inc., (dba Portland Spirit) of Portland, Oregon had a pleasant, yet vexing problem. His fleet of three…
Feature: Adding Combat Power; Extending Ship Life
By Edward H. The U.S. Navy's "Cruiser Modernization" program will extend the service life and enhance the combat capability of 22 of the Navy's 27 multi-mission AEGIS cruisers (CG-52 through CG-73).
Column: OPA 90 & the War on Terror
According to the USCG, oil spills have been reduced by roughly 90 percent since OPA90 was passed some 12 years ago. Encouraging, but statistics are often misleading.
ITS Back in the U.S.
The trade fair element of the eighteenth International Tug & Salvage Convention & Exhibition, (ITS) being held at the Bal Harbour Beach Resort in Miami from 26th-30th April 2004…
WTO Cites Security as Potential Trade Barrier Concern
The United States has overcome several shocks since its last Trade Policy Review in 2001, helped by the contribution of its open and transparent trade regime to the highly efficient U.S.
Government Required Maritime Security Training Programs Now Available in Video Tape for Ports and S
SeaSecure LLC, has created, in partnership with Moxie Media, the first comprehensive ISPS Code and MTSA-compliant maritime security training program designed specifically…
Feature: Designing People
Few would argue with the notion that a healthy commercial marine industry needs new naval architects entering the business of designing and engineering ships and offshore structures.
Crowley Scholarship Goes to Williams-Mystic Student
Seaport, has been named as a recipient of a Thomas B. Crowley, Sr. Maritime Corporation. interest in maritime trades and studies. Environmental Studies and Evolutionary Biology major.
Feature: Bye, Bye Redbird
Some people hate the subways. During rush hours at least, bodies are crushed unwilling and unwelcome into an unwanted intimacy, violating a million years of biological and emotional evolution.
Feature: MTS Rosette: State of the Art Inland Tank Ship
Jaap van de Guchte Senior stands on the port side half way up the ship's 110-m length. With hand signals, two fingers pointing aft, he directs the helmsman to move…
Product Focus
Datamodul´s daughter-company, CONRAC GmbH was awarded by Kelvin Hughes for the delivery of Type Approved TFT Displays in their new and future IBS Programs. Next…
IMO: Balance Approach for Ballast Water
IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos has highlighted both the environmental and the economic threat posed by the carriage of micro-organisms around the…
Senator Murray Blasts Bush's Security Funding
Our nation’s ports are an essential component of our economic infrastructure, and they represent one of our greatest vulnerabilities, but the Administration’s budget…
Crew Cost Warning to Ferry Operators
‘Ferry companies need to take on the issues of pay, discipline and restrictive practices if they are to improve marginal profitability and service standards, according…
ASA Helps Out with MV Lee III Recovery
A member of the American Salvage Association (ASA) quickly responded to the MV Lee III, a supply boat that collided with a container ship and sunk February 21 near…
Column: Port Security: A Historical Perspective
Dennis L. Bryant, Senior Maritime Counsel at the law firm of Holland & Knight, Washington, D.C., is a contributing editor of MR/EN. The first foreign terrorist attack…
Security: Ship Security Alert Systems (SSAS)
The new Ship Security and Alert Systems (SSAS) regulations were adopted by International Maritime Organization (IMO) to enhance maritime security in response to…
Feature: He’s No Regular Joe
Joe Farcus has been in the ship design discipline of architecture for more than 28 years, starting from the refitting of old tonnage and leading up to being involved…
Improving Safety at Sea Draft Report Presented
The Rapporteur of the European Parliament's Temporary Committee on Improving Safety at Sea (MARE Committee), Dirk Sterckx, made his draft report on improving safety at sea available this week.
Where will Rates Go? It’s Anybody’s Guess
Intertanko has established a tradition of asking members and guests at its Annual Dinner to forecast what the rates will be one year ahead when they gather again for the next Tanker Event and AGM.
