 Numbers to Date:
- BP's Tab= $3.12 billion
- Total Oil Spilled=up to 5 million barrels or 200,300,100 gallons (according to the government estimate of 60,000 barrels a day)
- Animals Collect Dead:
Birds=1505
Sea Turtles=447
Mammals=54 (includes dolphins)
 Government Will Try to Appeal Drilling Moratorium Today
Government lawyers will be in a federal appeals ...Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Tour Boat & Barge Collide, 8 injured 2 still missing
Emergency rescue boats searched the Delaware River this morning for passengers of a "Ride the Ducks" tour boat and its tourists after a barge hit the tourist boat in the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Two people remain missing.
An amphibious sightseeing boat known as the Ride ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 12 sailors seized in ship attack off Nigeria
Last week gunmen kidnapped 12 foreign sailors and injured one after attacking a cargo ship in the waters off the coast of the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
First reports said that the attacked vessel, the BBC Polonia, is German-flagged, but according to the MarineTraffic.com website, it is an Antigua Barbuda registered ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 A Jones Act Story
By Dave Michaels / The Dallas Morning News
dmichaels@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON – When Dallas investment banker Fred McCallister (pictured) told the Senate last week about his effort to get more foreign ships to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico, he blamed a maritime law that protects U.S. ship owners and workers.
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 Louis Lemos, a retired marine engineer has written a book on Marine Engineering and was kind enough to share some of the book with the MarEx:
Port Engineering Technology:
As mariners around the world are rightfully concerned about the stability of regular employment, reasonably fair rates of pay and decent working conditions, ship-owners are also concerned with the current high cost ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Resolve Marine Group, the Fort Lauderdale-based marine salvage and firefighting company has deployed its fleet of vessels to serve the pollution prevention and oil skimming operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Resolve has been operating out of its Theodore, Alabama port since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010.
Resolve Marine Group was initially deployed to support ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Silver Spirit, Silversea's newest luxury ship, was the latest cruise liner to grace the port of Valletta on a maiden call, on Tuesday 6th July. The Port of Valletta will see a total of nine cruise liner maiden calls by the end of this year, said VISET Malta plc, operators of the Valletta Cruise Terminal.
Making its grand debut in December 2009, ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Course Now Available at MITAGS and PMI
ECDIS is a required part of the Advanced Navigation requirement for the Chief Mate/Master license.
This USCG approved ECDIS course, when combined with successful completion of the Voyage Planning Electronic Navigation (VPEN) Course results in satisfying all of the assessments required for Advanced Navigation. Course ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 TOTAL Marine Fuels has increased its bunkering capacity at the port of Le Havre and at the Port 2000 container facilities with the delivery of its new bunkering barge, Cimil. The 4,500 tonne capacity bunker tanker is highly maneuverable and can deliver blends and different grades at 500 tph.
Christophe Girardot, General Manager TOTAL Marine Fuels, says, "Cimil is a modern and ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 CLEANMAG (Cleaning Magnetically) is a new material for the clean up of the waterborne oil spill and is based on the magnetic separation method. This revolutionary technology surpasses the existing oil spill clean up technologies.
CLEANMAG is an oil sorbing material in the form of granules, which is also magnetic. The material is dispersed over the spill (by aerial or naval means) ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 British company Red7Marine has become the owner of Damen's new Stan Tug 1205, the first in a new ship series which was only just unveiled to the market the Seawork Show held in Southampton (UK) in June.
British company Red7Marine has become the owner of Damen's new Stan Tug 1205, the first in a new ship series, which was only just unveiled ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Ecosphere's Ozonix Process Selected by Mid-Gulf Over All Competitors to treat wastewater during Gulf of Mexico clean-up
Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., a diversified water engineering and environmental services company announces that it has signed a significant contract with Mid-Gulf Recovery Services, LLC to utilize its Ecosphere Ozonix technology. Mid-Gulf will supply Ecosphere's Ozonix technology to clean wastewater throughout the Gulf region for BP. ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Det Norske Vertias (USA) Inc. in Katy, Texas, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) prestigious ENERGY STAR, the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection. Commercial buildings and industrial plants that rate in the top 25 percent of facilities in the nation for energy efficiency may qualify for the ENERGY STAR.
Det Norske Vertias (USA) Inc., is pleased ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Irving Shipbuilding Inc.' East Isle Facility, delivers the third of four of it's popular 30m ASD tugs for Stevns of Denmark.
East Isle Shipyard in Prince Edward Island, a Division of Irving Shipbuilding Inc., has delivered the third of four (4) Tugs for Stevns on the 17th May 2010. The first two Tugs were Ice Class and the second two are conventional. ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
 Financial sponsorship and technical training to equip marine professionals of the future Shell Marine Products has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) in a five-year sponsorship agreement to support the University's new Marine Engine Room Integrated Lab.
The sponsorship is valued at US$200,000 (RMB1.3 million) and will see the donation of 80 metric tonnes (MT) of lubricants ... Read More>>>Back to Top |
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