MarEx eNewsletter - April 6, 2010

Please Click Here if you are unable to view the newsletter April 6th, 2010 Vol. 8, No. 19 MarEx Mailbag April 6, 2010 Last week the MarEx Newsletter published an Op-Ed Piece by Dr. Michael Economides and Paul Glover called "Drilling Down on Obama's Oil Play" The MarEx responded with its own editorial on Obama's Opening of the OCS to drilling Click Here to Read. Read More>>>Back to Top Coal Ship Causing Concerns on Australia's Barrier Reef Update as of 9:00 AM April 6, 2010 While planes drop dispersants on long, thin oil slick, investigators question why the vessel was 9 miles outside the shipping lanes when at full speed it rammed the Douglas Shoals in the Barrier Reef Marine Sanctuary. Read More>>>Back to Top Bouchard Must Pay Property Owners for 2003 Oil Spill A Massachusetts jury agreed that Bouchard Transportation must pay eight property owners for oil damages to their beach front properties. The verdict is part of a larger class-action lawsuit involving 1,100 Mattapoisett property owners. On April 27, 2003, the Bouchard No. 120 struck an underwater reef in ... Read More>>>Back to Top Piracy & Ship Attacks April 6, 2010 Pirate Activities Increasing VLCC Hijacked --Update: South Korean warship catches up with seized tanker A Samho Shipping Ltd VLCC was hijacked 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) southeast of the Gulf of Aden with crew of 24. As of the morning of April 6th, ... Read More>>>Back to Top Maritime Casualties April 6, 2010 LPG Tanker Engine Room Explosion on Yangtze River Panama-flagged crew of 12 saved, but two missing as fire spread uncontrollably on vessel. the MV GOLDEN CRUX 18, a LPG tanker owned by Daiichi Tanker Company, with a crew of 14 was sailing near the ... Read More>>>Back to Top Guide for Shipmasters on International Maritime Law In the Year of the Seafarer, a Guide for Shipmasters on International Maritime Law Tara Leiter, an attorney at Blank Rome LLP, collaborated with John A.C. Cartner (United States Coast Guard shipmaster and lawyer) and Richard P. Fiske (retired US naval captain and attorney with John Cartner ... Read More>>>Back to Top Ocean Industries Launch Ocean Council Leading companies and associations form international business alliance on ocean sustainability. Ocean business leaders from a diverse range of industries have come together to form the World Ocean Council. The group is an international alliance for stewardship of the seas. Additionally, the World Ocean ... Read More>>>Back to Top MITAGS & PMI Announce GI Bill Authorized for Three Mate Tranining Programs GI BILL IS AUTHORIZED FOR THREE MATE TRAINING PROGRAMS Glen Paine, Executive Director, has announced that the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS), in partnership with the Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI) in Seattle Washington is now approved to offer the Veterans Administration GI Bill Education ... Read More>>>Back to Top CCMIT Hosts Event Honoring the Port of Baltimore A Joint Maritime Industry Program presented by: USMMA KP Alumni - Chesapeake Chapter, Inc. & the Baltimore Port Alliance (BPA) Baltimore "The Port that Built a City and State" KP Chesapeake Maritime Dinner Program Wednesday April 21, 2010 5:30PM ... Read More>>>Back to Top Confidence Returns to Shipping MarEx: "One of the best conferences in the industry." Marine Money Week 2010 The Pierre Hotel, New York City, NY June 22, 23 and 24, 2010 The US capital markets have returned to shipping providing much needed cash and hungry ... Read More>>>Back to Top Hempel's Tie‐Coat Speeds Docking Nexus X-Tend, a new tie-coat from Hempel, could save shipping companies thousands of dollars in drydock charges when re-docking vessels with fouling release coatings. A tie-coat designed specifically for fouling release coatings, Nexus X-Tend makes maintenance and re-coating procedures more efficient when a vessel with a fouling ... Read More>>>Back to Top EMAIL UNSUBSCRIBE Copyright © 2010 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316