 The mood at the BB&T Capital Markets 25th Annual Transportation Services Conference in Miami last week could best be described as "cautiously optimistic." Everyone agreed that the freight markets (marine, air, rail and trucking) had bottomed sometime during the third quarter of 2009 and have been bumping along the bottom ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 POINT By Jennifer Nugent-Hill, Tropical Shipping and Board Member, Florida Alliance of Maritime Organizations
For decades harbor pilots and ship operators have stood as partners to ensure the safe passage of large vessels into our ports. Freight and passenger vessel industries appreciate the essential services provided by ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 COUNTER-POINT By Captain Joe Brown, President, Florida Harbor Pilots Association
Florida's waters are typically calm this time of year with the end of hurricane season and no real weather threats on the horizon, but in coming months the main threat for Florida's 97 licensed harbor pilots will ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Moscow's Basmanny Court said it will continue custody of the people involved with the seizure of the Arctic Sea seizure until at least May 18, 2010.
Eight people are on trial in this case and have been charged with the abduction of people and piracy committed by ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 MITAGS introduces upcoming courses.
CHIEF MATE / MASTER, UNLIMITED TONNAGE, OCEANS LICENSE PREP
License Advancement (LAP)
March 29 to April 30, 2010
This license prep course is designed for mariners that have completed the 12 weeks of required STCW95 ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 The US Energy Regulatory Commission announced the Alaska Pipeline Project (APP) has filed its plan for approval to conduct its open season on a potential pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope to the US. Members of the public can provide comments through the month of February to ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following press release:
An Italian subsidiary of a U.S.-based company has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $2.29 million criminal fine for participating in a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices and allocate market shares of marine hose ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 PlanetData - The Security News Network is a free news and information resource focused on maritime, global, corporate, cyber, homeland and aviation security, law enforcement and intelligence. PlanetData hosts timely and comprehensive content gathered from over 1,000 online sources, as well as from our editors, contributors and members. This newsletter ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 The Court in Somaliland handed out 15-year prison sentences to 11 pirates on Sunday, the presiding judge said.
Prosecutors at the Court in Berbera, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland, brought a number of charges against the men, including piracy and attempted armed kidnapping.
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 Maritime Lubrication Manufacturing, Supply, Distribution Network Opens in U.S. and Canada.
Sealub Alliance Americas, Inc., an affiliate of Gulf Oil Marine Ltd. headquartered in Hong Kong, announced a fully operational manufacturing and supply and distribution network in the United States and select areas of Canada.
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 Leading shipowner grouping, BIMCO, demands law enforcement officers should join anti-piracy campaigns on warships to deviate Interpol's ban on information sharing.
BIMCO urges implementing this motion to allow police onboard ships deployed as anti-piracy riding squads would effectively remove present obstacles that make it difficult to monitor ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 SECAOR Holdings has created a Haitian Response Website to provide the media, government officials and the public with information about SEACOR Holdings' response to the disaster in Haiti. To see the news and response efforts go to http://www.seacorhaitiresponse.com/go/site/2655/
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 An oil platform is due to arrive north of Port Stanley near the Falkland Islands next week, Argentina warns they will take necessary measures to preserve their rights. Britain expects to resolve any dispute with civil talks.
The Ocean Guardian is expected to arrive in the disputed ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 In 2009, 100% of vessels bound for the Great Lakes Seaway received a ballast tank exam. A total of 5450 ballast tanks, onboard 295 vessels, were sampled and had a 97.9% compliance rate. Vessels that failed to properly manage their ballast tanks were required to either retain the ballast water ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
April 6 - 7, 2010
Conference Center at the Maritime Institute, Baltimore, MD
Click HERE to preview the conference program guide.
It's a new world of transportation out there. Policymakers and transportation stakeholders are looking for holistic approaches to ...Read More>>>Back to Top |
 A concerted response by a member of the American Salvage Association (ASA), technical experts from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and New York City Fire Department (FDNY) averted the risk of a toxic material release from a chemical carrier anchored in Gravesend Bay near Brooklyn, NY last week.
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 Imtech (technical services provider in Europe) is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Exactly 150 years ago, Jan Jacob van Rietschoten put behind him his career as sea captain in the long-haul shipping trade and in 1860 started working as an independent stevedore in Rotterdam. He was one of the ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Donjon Marine, Co., Inc., a global marine services provider based in New Jersey, announced today that President and CEO J. Arnold Witte has joined the Board of Trustees of the Noble Maritime Collection, a museum and study center located in a former dormitory at the famous retirement home for mariners, ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Following last December's order, the only one in the world in 2009 and after a standstill of almost two years, Carnival once again chooses Fincantieri for its ships for the future.
Fincantieri and the US cruise group Carnival Corporation & plc have reached an agreement to build ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 After 13-1/2 years with Viking Life-Saving Equipment with the last 10 spent as CEO and group managing director, Kjeld Amann will go into retirement following the Annual General Meeting on March 15, 2010. Company chairman for the past 50 years, Tage Sorensen made the announcement.
During Amann's ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
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