 In this issue: Idle Thoughts Before the Holiday Weekend: two steps forward, one back U.S. Coast Guard Cutter and Ferry Collide COSCO BUSAN Pilot Retires; Does Not Admit Blame in Allision Protecting the Jones Act is Rallying Call at MM&P Convention Shipping Retains Confidence Levels – But at a Higher Price Featured MarEx Print Article: Earning Back the Trust – One Mariner at a Time NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration Poised to Respond as Hurricane Season Starts Toxic French Carrier Heading to the UK USCG Safety Alert: Controllable Pitch Propeller Systems and Situational Awareness Officials End Recovery of Victims in Capsized Philippine Ferry IMO Council Completes & Issues Summary of 100th Session Paris MOU Announced New Targeting Lists EC Shipping Boss Calls for a 'Proactive' Shipping Industry MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… TITAN Successfully Refloats Grounded Ferry Arcangel in Cancun, Mexico |  STCW: It's not just a pipe dream anymore… Read More>>>Back to Top |  A press release has revealed that the Coast Guard has responded to an incident where a Coast Guard cutter and ferry carrying 257 passengers and eight crew collided approximately three miles north of Block Island, RI, around 1215 hours of Wednesday, 2 July. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Captain John Cota's retirement letter filed with CA State Board of Pilot Commissioners, effective 1 October. Cota cites concern for fellow pilots and regrets that his career as a pilot ends on such a note. Read More>>>Back to Top |  It is imperative that everyone who works in the U.S.-flag maritime industry mobilize behind Sen. Barack Obama in the November 2008 elections, agreed speakers and delegates at the 82nd MM&P Convention. Delegates to MM&P's 82nd Convention unanimously voted to endorse Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the race for President. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Latest Shipping Confidence Survey by Moore Stephens has revealed that overall confidence in the market for the next twelve months remains unaffected by the global credit crunch. But two-thirds of shipping interests expect finance costs to rise and there has also been a fall in the number of owners who expect to make a major business investment in the next twelve months. Read More>>>Back to Top |  This week's archived print article features an exclusive article, first published in the December 2007 print edition of THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE. In that article, MarEx examines the Coast Guard's decision to centralize its mariner-documentation operations to a single location in West Virginia. As the Coast Guard celebrated the official opening of it's National Maritime Center (NMC) last week, it is worth looking back to see how they got there. Read More>>>Back to Top |  With the arrival of hurricane season, NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) is prepared to respond quickly to hazardous material spill incidents resulting from severe storm events. OR&R scientists work with federal, state and local agencies to provide scientific support and assistance before, during and after hurricanes strike. Read More>>>Back to Top |  The CLEMENCEAU, once the pride of the French Navy, has ended its 5 year saga of being the toxic ship nobody wanted. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Coast Guard strongly recommends that owners, operators, and masters of vessels with controllable pitch propellers understand the design and operation of the system after marine casualty in March of 2008 involving a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea resulted in multiple fatalities and complete loss of the vessel. Read More>>>Back to Top | | Ship will instead be refloated to speed up the recovery of hundreds of bodies. Read More>>>Back to Top |  The IMO Council completed its landmark 100th session on Friday, 20 June, following a week which also saw a series of celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the IMO Convention; the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of that Convention; the return of the IMO Secretariat to its refurbished Albert Embankment Headquarters; and the 25th and 20th anniversaries, respectively, of the World Maritime University (WMU) and the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI). Read More>>>Back to Top | | At its 41st meeting last month, the Paris MoU Committee approved the 2007 inspection results and adopted new performance lists for flag States and Recognized Organizations. These lists will take effect from 1 July 2008. Read More>>>Back to Top |  The maritime industry needs to be proactive, not reactive, to issues facing it and should see new challenges as opportunities and not as threats, according to Dimitrios Theologitis, head of unit, Maritime Transport & Ports Policy at the European Commission. Read More>>>Back to Top |  MarEx readers weighed in on last week's editorial (You Bet I'm Going Back to Sea…) & other articles Read More>>>Back to Top |  TITAN Salvage reports that it has successfully refloated a ferry, once grounded in a lagoon just north of Cancun, Mexico and redelivered her to her owners. Read More>>>Back to Top | |
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