 In this issue: National Maritime Day: Substance or Symbolism Only? CMES Instructor Tom Cannon Honored MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… USCG Marine Safety Alert: Maintaining Vessel Watertight Integrity Why a Lack of Human Interface Seriously Undermines LRIT Regulations NATIONAL MARITIME DAY 2008: May 22nd 2008 Cantwell, Cummings, Snowe Express Concern Over DD-250 Unified Response Team Concludes Avon Wharf Incident Response Featured MarEx Print Article: "America Should Allow Responsible Development" Marshall Islands Accedes to Five Major IMO Conventions CII Scholarship Renamed for Dick Simpson Bollinger: Building Around Inflation New NOAA Ocean Observing System in Pascagoula Aids Mariners; Keeps Shipping Safe Matt Rigdon Appointed Manager, Sales and Marketing of Rigdon Marine Second Quarter Edition of Safe Voyage Magazine is in Advance Distribution! |  The significance of May 22nd is purely up to you… Read More>>>Back to Top |  Cannon honored by Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton with rare award, the Merchant Marine Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Medal reflects Tom's forty years of active service, unique career achievements and continued dedication to the U.S. Merchant Marine as an educator. Read More>>>Back to Top |  The MarEx 8 May editorial was entitled, "The View from OTC: State of the Industry," which highlighted the annual OTC Conference in Houston. Reader response to that piece was thin, but as always, MarEx readers weighed in on a wide range of (other) issues. Read More>>>Back to Top |  This Safety Alert addresses two issues: watertight integrity and high level bilge alarms. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Up to 30% of vessels non-reporting at any one point says Securewest International. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Schedule of Events Celebrating National Maritime Day outlined by MARAD Read More>>>Back to Top |  Legislators send letter to Coast Guard Commandant expressing concern over the Coast Guard's preliminary acceptance of the National Security Cutter BERTHOLF before many of the ship's problems have been adequately fixed. Read More>>>Back to Top | | Response activities associated with the May 14 tug boat allision at the Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery's Avon wharf ended; fears of large spill prove unfounded. Read More>>>Back to Top |  This week's archived print article, Larry Kiern's WASHINGTON INSIDER article from our December 2007 edition, deliberately coincides with the ongoing primary season. The article underscores the case for responsible domestic energy development. Read More>>>Back to Top |  IMO secretary general Efhtimios Mitropoulos expressed satisfaction with Marshall Islands' action and the hope that many other IMO Members would do the same, at the earliest opportunity, to the benefit of enhanced safety, security and environmental protection. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Containerization & Intermodal Institute has renamed its annual scholarship in honor of its former President and Chairman Richard A. Simpson Read More>>>Back to Top |  Although yards are busy and demand for OSV type vessels is high, the next series of boats that Bollinger is undertaking will be built on spec. Usually the sign of slowing times in the industry, these spec boats are building for quite a different reason. With steel prices rising weekly, Bollinger's Robert Socha explained recently, it is virtually impossible to predict what it will cost to build a vessel at the outset of the project. So this set of "spec" boats will not be sold until they are nearly completed and the materials cost are firmed. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Mariners can now get free real-time information on water and wind conditions for the Port of Pascagoula, Miss., from a new NOAA ocean observing system at the port. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Billy Guice, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Rigdon Marine Corporation (RMC) announced the appointment of Matthew Rigdon to the position of Manager, Sales and Marketing. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Second edition (Spring 2008) of this safety oriented publication is now available for download Read More>>>Back to Top | |
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