MarEx Newsletter - January 4, 2008

January 4, 2008 | Vol. 6, No. 1 In this issue: Alaska's AGIA Gamble: Looking Smarter Every Day More Opportunities for U.S. Mariners Announced by MARAD and APL 554-Foot Thai-Flagged Bulker Loses Power and Effects Repairs in Bering Sea Pilot Rate Updates: Houston, Boston, Long Island Sound Container Vessel Refloated in Dover Strait Workboat Academy Quarterly Q3&4 Second Antarctic Cruise Accident in Less Than Two Months U.S. Energy Information Administration Details World Oil Transit Chokepoints Bulgarian Cargo Ship Sinks in Sea of Azov Cunard Line Queens to Meet for Royal Rendezvous in New York Harbor on January 13 Executive Director for the Marine Exchange of Southern California to Retire Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) C-TPAT -- Do Importers Really Have A Choice? Scientific Study to Assist MARPOL Amendment Process Completed U.S. Coast Guard Issues Advisory on Proper Procedures for Advance Notice of Arrival Alaska's AGIA Gamble: Looking Smarter Every Day As foreign opportunities for energy producers are getting tougher to obtain, the reasons for not participating in Alaska's AGIA process are also drying up. Read More>>>Back to Top More Opportunities for U.S. Mariners Announced by MARAD and APL Agreement puts American Maritime Academy cadets on APL's foreign-flag vessels for Global Fleet for the first time; APL first is the liner company to agree to support maritime academy training. Read More>>>Back to Top 554-Foot Thai-Flagged Bulker Loses Power and Effects Repairs in Bering Sea Coast Guard responded to vessel after receiving calls for assistance; ship had previously called on a U.S. port and is now on its way to Japan. Read More>>>Back to Top Pilot Rate Updates: Houston, Boston, Long Island Sound Houston Pilots big winners as others await approval of their rate increase requests. Read More>>>Back to Top Container Vessel Refloated in Dover Strait The LT Cortesia, which ran aground on Wednesday morning, was successfully refloated that same evening. Read More>>>Back to Top Workboat Academy Quarterly Q3&4 The latest edition of the Workboat Academy Quarterly. Read More>>>Back to Top Second Antarctic Cruise Accident in Less Than Two Months The Hurtigruten-owned MS Fram lost power and drifted into a glacier at Brown Bluff last Friday evening. Read More>>>Back to Top U.S. Energy Information Administration Details World Oil Transit Chokepoints Chokepoints a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straights. Read More>>>Back to Top Bulgarian Cargo Ship Sinks in Sea of Azov The MV Vanessa sank in the Sea of Azov on the border between Russia and the Ukraine on Thursday; at least 2 of the 11-person crew are confirmed dead. Read More>>>Back to Top Cunard Line Queens to Meet for Royal Rendezvous in New York Harbor on January 13 Witness the making of maritime history as fireworks and fanfare mark the first and only meeting of Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and the new Queen Victoria. Read More>>>Back to Top Executive Director for the Marine Exchange of Southern California to Retire Maritime industry's most vocal advocate and reliable "honest broker" of information set to step down on 31 March. Read More>>>Back to Top Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) Sponsored Conference in support of Maritime and Intermodal Education for Primary and Secondary Schools in America on April 1-3, 2008, hosted by MITAGS (www.mitags.org) in Linthicum, Maryland. Read More>>>Back to Top C-TPAT -- Do Importers Really Have A Choice? Second and third tier importers are feeling the pressure to join. Read More>>>Back to Top Scientific Study to Assist MARPOL Amendment Process Completed A comprehensive study commissioned by IMO to assist in the planned revision of regulations governing air pollution from ships has been successfully completed. Read More>>>Back to Top U.S. Coast Guard Issues Advisory on Proper Procedures for Advance Notice of Arrival Purpose of first NVMC newsletter is to provide the maritime industry with a method to submit electronically a Notice of Arrival (NOA) and a Notice of Departure (NOD), which, when completed, fulfills the United States Coast Guard's (USCG) and the Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) arrival and departure requirements, three different submission methods have been developed. Read More>>>Back to Top Copyright © 2007 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 To Unsubscribe, click here.