MarEx Newsletter - May 17, 2007

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May 17, 2007 Vol. 5, No. 20 Subscribe to Newsletter In this issue: Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) Turns up the Heat on the Oil Majors Port of Houston Authority and Port of Galveston Sign Agreement for Development of New Container Facility Passenger Ship Grounding off the Alaskan Coast Spurs NTSB Investigation F. Brooks Royster III, Executive Director, MPA to be Guest Speaker at USMMA Chesapeake Chapter "Maritime Day Celebration" Search Continues for 16 Missing After Ships Collide AAPA News Release: U.S. Public Ports Welcome Much Needed Security Funds Galveston Pilots Secure Increase in Rates Equating to About 10% San Francisco Bar Pilots to Receive Training from MITAGS Greek Oil Tanker Still Grounded Strategic partnership between SCHOTTEL and Frydenbø TDC Security Alert: Lessons Learned From Plot to Attack Fort Dix, NJ Beele Engineering Assures Fire Safety for Yacht Express Norwegian University and Three Leading Norwegian-Based Maritime Companies Partner to Build Research Center MacGREGOR Adds Service Specialist to Growing Offshore Portfolio The Maritime Administration is on the move!

Featured Maritime Executives Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) Turns up the Heat on the Oil Majors Oil producers are left with few options; one of which includes (the apparently objectionable task of) bringing trillions of cubic feet of enormously profitable "stranded" natural gas to market Read More>   Back to top Port of Houston Authority and Port of Galveston Sign Agreement for Development of New Container Facility Agreement represents the port's commitment to address long-term container capacity needs and to stimulate economic development for the Texas Gulf Coast region Read More>   Back to top Passenger Ship Grounding off the Alaskan Coast Spurs NTSB Investigation Incident is not the first for Empress of the North; all passengers safely evacuated Read More>   Back to top F. Brooks Royster III, Executive Director, MPA to be Guest Speaker at USMMA Chesapeake Chapter "Maritime Day Celebration" The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (CCMIT) will host the meeting on May 22, 2007 at 1800 Read More>   Back to top Search Continues for 16 Missing After Ships Collide China will continue to search for missing South Korean cargo vessel crew "as long as there is one percent hope for the survival of the missing sailors" Read More>   Back to top AAPA News Release: U.S. Public Ports Welcome Much Needed Security Funds DHS announces $202 million in awards to 183 entities Read More>   Back to top Galveston Pilots Secure Increase in Rates Equating to About 10% Compromise tariff allows for maintaining current income distributions to pilots but allows for increase in fees to offset capital and operating expenses Read More>   Back to top San Francisco Bar Pilots to Receive Training from MITAGS 7-Day Advanced Pilot training Program designed to exceed State of California training requirements Read More>   Back to top Greek Oil Tanker Still Grounded Optimistic views of quickly refloating the Minerva Concert have waned, but the shipowner has not given up hope Read More>   Back to top Strategic partnership between SCHOTTEL and Frydenbø With effect from 31 March 2007, 15% of the shares in the SCHOTTEL Group have passed from former Chairman Dietrich W. Bork to Frydenbø Industri AS Read More>   Back to top TDC Security Alert: Lessons Learned From Plot to Attack Fort Dix, NJ Alleged terrorists also said to be considering other, softer targets, including a U.S. Coast guard base Read More>   Back to top Beele Engineering Assures Fire Safety for Yacht Express Dockwise Yacht Transport, the world's largest yacht shipper, is about to take delivery of a revolutionary special-purpose vessel, the Yacht Express Read More>   Back to top Norwegian University and Three Leading Norwegian-Based Maritime Companies Partner to Build Research Center Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Aker Yards, Rolls Royce Marine, and DNV have partnered to build an international competence center for research and education on the topic "sustainable design of ships for the future" Read More>   Back to top MacGREGOR Adds Service Specialist to Growing Offshore Portfolio Recent acquisitions by MacGREGOR -- part of the Cargotec Corporation -- include several companies working in the offshore support sector (Grampian Hydraulics, Hydramarine and Plimsoll), and the company has just added another to the portfolio: Vestnorsk Hydraulikkservice AS Read More>   Back to top The Maritime Administration is on the move! MARAD moves to new U.S. Department of Transportation building Read More>   Back to top

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