MarEx eNewsletter - May 25, 2010

Please Click Here if you are unable to view the newsletter May 25th, 2010 Vol. 8, No. 34 OPED: IN THE WAKE OF BP GULF OIL SPILL A Review of Safety Management in the Offshore Drilling Industry by Angelo Pinheiro MS, CSP, CPEA Angelo Pinheiro holds the Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), and Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA) designation. Incident Summary On the evening of April 20, the Transocean Deepwater Horizon (Figure 1), a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) ... Read More>>>Back to Top Piracy & Ship Attacks May 25, 2010 French warship returns fire Friday May 21, EU NAVFOR warship FS NIVOSE returned fire after being shot at while escorting two merchant vessels outside Mogadishu harbor. Upon the warship's return of fire the attack immediately stopped. FS Nivose was escorting MS ALPHA KIRAWIRA and PETRA 1 and was one mile outside of Mogadishu when small arms impacts were ... Read More>>>Back to Top Ship Collisions & Accidents May 25, 2010 Tanker collides with ship, spilling crude oil off Singapore coast The Malaysian flagged tanker MT BUNGA KELANA 3 collided with the MV WAILY, a St. Vincent and The Grenadines flagged bulk carrier, early this morning (May 25) in the Singapore Strait, about 8 miles from Singapore's coast. It is estimated the MT Bunga was carrying 18,325 barrels of oil ... Read More>>>Back to Top JRC AMERICA RIVER RADAR: NEW TECHNOLOGIES ON THE RIVER JRC America, in a joint development effort with Campbell Transportation, introduced a new generation of the JMA-5200MKII and JMA-5300MKII, into the inland waterway market. In order to properly assess the effectiveness and performance of these products, the evaluations were performed on actual shipboard environments, addressing the operators concerns of poor close target image quality, ghost echoes, primarily caused by barges and power lines, and riverbank ... Read More>>>Back to Top DEEPWATER HORIZON Update May 25, 2010 BP today provided an update on developments in the response Plans have been developed for a series of interventions via the BOP; it is currently anticipated these may be carried out over a period of about a week, commencing in the next few days. These interventions have not been carried out at these depths and conditions before and the success of individual ... Read More>>>Back to Top The Kayapo Continue Blockades Brazil's Indigenous Peoples Vow to Block Dam Construction or "Die Fighting for our Rights" A group of Kayapo indigenous people led by Chief Megaron Txukarramãe have been blockading the Xingu River crossing of the BR-80 - a major Amazon highway in Mato Grosso State - since April 23 in protest of the government's plans to build the massive Belo Monte Dam. Dozens ... Read More>>>Back to Top South Korea Begins Reprisals For Sinking Of Warship South Korea bracing for war with North over sinking of the Cheonan. As the South starts its aggressive tactics the North begins to mobilize 1.2 million military. The South has blamed the North for killing 46 sailors in a torpedo strike that sunk the 1,200-ton corvette. The South is ending trade with the North and has banned all of its merchant ships ... Read More>>>Back to Top Rem Offshore orders at Kleven Maritime 2 platform supply vessels for deliveries in June and September 2011 Kleven Maritime has entered into contracts with Rem Offshore for the building of two sophisticated platform supply vessels designed by Wartsila Ship Design Norway. The vessels are to be outfitted at Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, delivery dates are June 30th and September 30th 2011. For Kleven Maritime ... Read More>>>Back to Top IRIDIUM ANNOUNCES "TEST YOUR SATELLITE PHONE" WEEK Annual Reminder Coincides with U.S. National Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 23-29 Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM), the world's only provider of truly global mobile satellite communications, announces the launch of its fourth annual "Test Your Satellite Phone" (TYSP) Week initiative, reminding users to make sure their satellite phones are ready to deploy at a moment's notice when natural or manmade disasters strike. ... Read More>>>Back to Top Harris Corp. To Acquire CapRock For $525 Million Howard Lance, Chairman & CEO, Harris Corp. In an effort to expand its international presence and expand its customer base, maker of communications hardware and software, Harris Corp. (HRS) has agreed to acquire CapRock, a satellite-communications provider for $525 million. CapRock of Houston provides end-to-end satellite communications solutions to governments, as well as ... Read More>>>Back to Top Vietnam to Keep Pace with Port Infrastructure CMIT Executive Emphasizes need for land-based infrastructure to meet needs of expected container terminal volume growth at ASEAN Ports & Shipping Conference Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Addressing the 8th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Ports & Shipping Conference, Cai Mep International Terminal Commercial Officer Malcolm Gregory outlined the bright future of Vietnam's fast-growing container trade, but cautioned that land-side ... Read More>>>Back to Top Click Here to Unsubscribe Copyright © 2010 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316