MarEx Newsletter - July 19, 2007

July 19, 2007 | Vol. 5, No. 29 In this issue: Pay Raise for Long Island Sound Memorandum of Agreement(MOA) Pilots Still in Doubt Former Coast Guard Commandant Dies MARAD Sponsors Domestic Shipbuilding Summit on July 16 Grounded Tanker Freed From Port of New York IOMMP Issues Response to Mariner / USCG ALJ Controversy MSC Napoli Grounded Again NOAA & U.S. Coast Guard Help to Shift Boston Ship Traffic Lane to Reduce Risk of Collisions With Whales; Proposal to Limit Ship Speeds Held Up by White House Coal Loading Backup Affects All INTERTANKO Announces Cooperative Agreement on Tanker Officer Training Oil Slick Threatens Three Ibiza Beaches UK Marine Accident Report Blames Vessel in Seamen's Deaths in 2006 Weather Accident at Scapa Flow Piracy Incidents on the Rise MarEx Reader Responds to Editorial ("Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Hyundai") in Our VT HALTER (June) Print Edition New Resources for Bridge Resource Management (BRM) Noble Denton Acquires Poseidon Maritime (UK) LTD Pay Raise for Long Island Sound Memorandum of Agreement(MOA) Pilots Still in Doubt A "penny-wise and pound foolish" Connecticut continues to drag its feet as MOA pilots await their first pay increase in nearly 24 years Read More>>>Back to Top Former Coast Guard Commandant Dies U.S. Coast Guard announced the death of Adm. Owen W. Siler, 85, Coast Guard commandant from 1974 to 1978 Read More>>>Back to Top MARAD Sponsors Domestic Shipbuilding Summit on July 16 Meeting represents the Maritime Administration's opening salvo in a renewed effort to support the industry and meet its biggest challenges Read More>>>Back to Top Grounded Tanker Freed From Port of New York The White Sea was freed from the Ambrose Channel on Friday Read More>>>Back to Top IOMMP Issues Response to Mariner / USCG ALJ Controversy Excerpt from MMP Newsletter: Congress should investigate USCG administrative law judge program, MM&P President says Read More>>>Back to Top MSC Napoli Grounded Again After being successfully refloated, the ship was deliberately beached again once severe hull damage was discovered. Read More>>>Back to Top NOAA & U.S. Coast Guard Help to Shift Boston Ship Traffic Lane to Reduce Risk of Collisions With Whales; Proposal to Limit Ship Speeds Held Up by White House The move is said to increase safety, but not everyone agrees; the Bush Administration is also holding up a move to create a plan regulating ship speed limits to protect critically-endangered North Atlantic right whales Read More>>>Back to Top Coal Loading Backup Affects All The backup has caused vessels to idle outside of the Port of Newcastle for weeks, which in turn has locals worried about the vessels' environmental effects Read More>>>Back to Top INTERTANKO Announces Cooperative Agreement on Tanker Officer Training Press Release (18 July 2007) details mutual agreement with Warsash Maritime Academy (UK) on the Tanker Officer Training Standard (TOTS) project Read More>>>Back to Top Oil Slick Threatens Three Ibiza Beaches Oil leaks from the sunken Don Pedro caused three beaches on Spain's Balearic Island of Ibiza to be closed during cleanup operations Read More>>>Back to Top UK Marine Accident Report Blames Vessel in Seamen's Deaths in 2006 Weather Accident at Scapa Flow Large waves not abnormal, according to report; ship should have delayed sailing until properly secured for sea Read More>>>Back to Top Piracy Incidents on the Rise According to an IMB report, piracy incidents in the second quarter of 2007 have increased 37 percent Read More>>>Back to Top MarEx Reader Responds to Editorial ("Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Hyundai") in Our VT HALTER (June) Print Edition Read the response and then the editorial online at the MarEx Web site Read More>>>Back to Top New Resources for Bridge Resource Management (BRM) The Nautical Institute will be holding a series of meetings to address the revised training requirements for BRM Read More>>>Back to Top Noble Denton Acquires Poseidon Maritime (UK) LTD Noble Denton Group, the global offshore and marine consulting firm, announces the acquisition of Poseidon Maritime (UK) Ltd for £2.4 million (16 July) Read More>>>Back to Top Copyright © 2007 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 To Unsubscribe, click here.