MarEx Newsletter - December 20, 2007

December 20, 2007 | Vol. 5, No. 51 In this issue: Season's Greetings & a Holiday Message From MarEx HELPING ONE OF OURS The MarEx Mind Reader: All I Want for Christmas is . . . North and South Korea Fail to Agree on Maritime Border MarEx Readers Respond to Last Week's OPED Piece, "Perfect Visibility: Marine Pilots Receive Renewed Scrutiny" Second Largest Norwegian Oil Spill U.S. Coast Guard Provides Details of M/V BARKALD and S/V ESSENCE Collision Sinking Chemical Tanker Raised in China Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Oil Spills From Non-Tank Vessels Worst South Korean Oil Spill Update National Transportation Safety Board to Release EMPRESS OF THE NORTH Report Tanker Company Fined $4.9 Million for Falsifying Records and Obstruction of Justice Coast Guard Holds Media Roundtable Discussions With Acquisition Directorate in Washington Containerized Cargo at Port Everglades Tops 6 Million Tons for First Time Maritime Dinner Program Season's Greetings & a Holiday Message From MarEx Some final thoughts and good cheer as we head into the holiday break. Read More>>>Back to Top HELPING ONE OF OURS Rosie, the daughter of Blanckenburg,a friend of the maritime community in San Francisco, was recently gravely injured and needs our help. Please read. Read More>>>Back to Top The MarEx Mind Reader: All I Want for Christmas is . . . The (likely) holiday wish list(s) of Maritime Executive readers. Read More>>>Back to Top North and South Korea Fail to Agree on Maritime Border The long dispute over the Northern Limit Line (NLL) sea border between the Koreas remains unresolved after a three-day-long meeting between generals from each country. Read More>>>Back to Top MarEx Readers Respond to Last Week's OPED Piece, "Perfect Visibility: Marine Pilots Receive Renewed Scrutiny" This week's mailbag is heavy; MarEx readers sound off in large numbers. Read More>>>Back to Top Second Largest Norwegian Oil Spill About 25,000 barrels of crude were discharged into the North Sea last week; the spill occurred while a tanker was taking on oil from a loading buoy in the Statfjord offshore oil field in Norway. Read More>>>Back to Top U.S. Coast Guard Provides Details of M/V BARKALD and S/V ESSENCE Collision Collision in Long Island Sound between bulker and sailing vessel resulted in one death in September of 2006; Coast Guard investigation blames failures in procedures aboard both vessels. Read More>>>Back to Top Sinking Chemical Tanker Raised in China The vessel, carrying 609 tons of liquid caustic soda, that began sinking last Friday in China's Yangtze River was successfully raised on Monday. Read More>>>Back to Top Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Oil Spills From Non-Tank Vessels December 18 meeting of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries & Coast Guard of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation stems largely from the aftermath of the Cosco Busan spill in San Francisco Bay. Read More>>>Back to Top Worst South Korean Oil Spill Update Cleanup of the 10,500 tons of oil spilled in South Korea when a Hong Kong-registered tanker collided with a barge continues; the spill is the largest in the country's history. Read More>>>Back to Top National Transportation Safety Board to Release EMPRESS OF THE NORTH Report NTSB to release factual reports on Empress of the North cruise ship accident; no interviews will be conducted. Read More>>>Back to Top Tanker Company Fined $4.9 Million for Falsifying Records and Obstruction of Justice United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut Press Release provides details of falsification of records to conceal the overboard dumping of waste oil from the M/T Kriton into international waters and its efforts to impede the investigation of the U.S. Coast Guard. Read More>>>Back to Top Coast Guard Holds Media Roundtable Discussions With Acquisition Directorate in Washington RADM Gary T. Bore asserts that Coast Guard Acquisition performance "a year down the road" has yielded substantial improvements in its processes, especially where Deepwater is concerned. Read More>>>Back to Top Containerized Cargo at Port Everglades Tops 6 Million Tons for First Time Containerized cargo surpassed six-million tons for the first time ever, according to the South Florida seaport's newly released waterborne commerce statistics for Fiscal Year 2007. Read More>>>Back to Top Maritime Dinner Program The Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Foundation has joined with the Northeast Coast Branch of the Nautical Institute for a special Maritime Dinner Program. Read More>>>Back to Top Copyright © 2007 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 To Unsubscribe, click here.