MarEx Newsletter | The Failure to Compensate the U.S. Merchant Marine, B.P's Record Fine

Please Click Here if you are unable to view the newsletter August 17th, 2010 Vol. 8, No. 60 A National Disgrace: The Failure to Compensate the U.S. Merchant Marine of World War II OPED by Tony Munoz, Editor-in-Chief of the Maritime Executive Magazine and the MarEx Newsletter To: The Honorable Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs Dear Senator Akaka: A great travesty of forgotten valor has beleaguered the U.S. Merchant Marine since the end of World War II. Today, recognition and compensation for ... Read More>>>Back to Top MarEx Talks to CFO of Dice Holdings on Acquisition of Rigzone The Combination of Dice Holdings, Inc. and Rigzone Creates the Leading Global Player in Online Energy Recruiting. Building on its position in energy industry recruiting, Dice Holdings, Inc. a leading provider of specialized career websites for professional communities, announced Thursday, it has completed the purchase of Rigzone, a U.S. market leader in the oil and gas industry delivering content, data, advertising and ... Read More>>>Back to Top BP to Pay $50.6 Million, Record OSHA Fine BP to pay $50.6 million to resolve US Labor Department litigation. Penalty stems from 2005 explosion at Texas City, Texas, refinery. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that BP Products North America Inc. will pay a full penalty of $50.6 million stemming from the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers ... Read More>>>Back to Top Piracy & Ship Attacks: August 17, 2010 Thai navy to battle Somali pirates On Monday the cabinet approved the Defense Ministry's proposal for Thailand's Navy to send vessels to help fight Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Vessels carrying 371 personnel will leave for Somalia early in September for a 98-day joint operation. An estimated 270 million baht from the 2010 budget will be allocated for the ... Read More>>>Back to Top Deepwater Horizon Update August 17, 2010 1st Louisana Shrimp Season Since Spill, Shrimpers Find Oil Monday marked the first shrimping season since the oil spill. The largest shrimp wholesaler in the U.S., Dean Blanchard told AFP that 4 out of their 1,400 boats went out yesterday and "they're finding oil. They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in, and they're looking for cleaner waters." Read More>>>Back to Top Federal Approval Advances American Feeder Lines' Coastal Shipping Project The principal parties in a successful bid for official American Marine Highway status view the development of coastwise feeder and domestic marine freight services as "essential and inevitable for the United States." The project that was among those designated by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood under the new program is titled "Atlantic and Gulf Coast Short Sea / Feeder Service," and was developed by American ... Read More>>>Back to Top Tankers Collide off Welsh Coast The Panamanian-registered ROYAL OASIS and the Norwegian-flagged BERGE ATLANTIC collided eight miles off Mumbles Head at 6.30am Sunday. Both the Royal Oasis, which has a deadweight of 161,000 tons, and the 171,000-ton Berge Atlantic are nearly 1,000ft long. The Royal Oasis had 21 crew on board and had last called at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the ... Read More>>>Back to Top L-3's Cargo Inspection System Aids in Cocaine Discovery 240 Kilograms of Cocaine Found in Australia L-3 Security & Detection Systems announced today that its CX-Pallet dual-view cargo inspection system helped the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service uncover 240 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a shipment of concrete pavers. The CX-Pallet was installed at the Port Melbourne Cargo Examination Facility in June of this year. "We are ... Read More>>>Back to Top Maritime Transport & Logistics Advisors Newsletter MTLA Marine Highways Development Team With new initiatives being put into motion by the U.S. DOT and MARAD, and increased client interest in America's Marine Highways - "Maritime Advisors" has formed a "Marine Highways Development Team" to provide clients with a focused group of Advisors with extensive expertise, understanding and knowledge of Marine Highway's intermodal concepts and applications. The core "MTLA Marine ... Read More>>>Back to Top Kodeco Rig Halts Production After Collision South Korea's Kodeco Energy shut down one of its oil and gas production facilities in Indonesia's West Madura block, offshore East Java after it was hit by a container ship last week. The collision occurred on Wednesday August 11, at 6:53 p.m. After the incident the KE40 tilted to the southwest around 40 degrees and several parts of the facility were damaged ... Read More>>>Back to Top Man's Death Forces Ship Back To Miami The Norwegian Cruise Lines Ship, EPIC, was forced to return to the Port of Miami late Saturday after a passenger died just miles off the Florida coast. An FBI investigation revealed that a 21-year-old man had an allergic reaction to something he ate causing a fatal heart attack when the ship was 40 miles off the coast of Miami. Read More>>>Back to Top Immigrant Ship Arrives in Canada Tamil refugees arrive in Canada, one man died during trip. Smugglers suspected to have made $20 million An estimated 450 migrants from Sri Lanka arrived in British Columbia Friday aboard the MV SUN SEA, a Thai-flagged cargo ship. Canadian officials have been anticipating the arrival of this vessel, as reports months ago speculated the ship was carrying members of ... Read More>>>Back to Top NOAA Ship Rescues Downed Pilot NOAA Seafaring Technology Aids Efforts to Locate and Rescue Lost Aviator While conducting mapping surveys west of Key West, Fla. the evening of August 14, the NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson heard a radio report from the U.S. Coast Guard that a small aircraft with one person aboard had crashed in the water about 30 miles away from the vessel. The crew of ... Read More>>>Back to Top Armed Robbery Onboard 4 Ships off Iraqi Coast The U.S. Navy reported that armed men robbed four commercial ships anchored in Iraq's main port Umm Qasr in Basra. Two men armed with AK-47's boarded the American cargo ship SAGAMORE at 4 a.m. on Aug. 8, taking computers, cellphones, and money from crew members before fleeing the vessel. The same night three other ships, the Antigua-flagged ARMENIA, the ... Read More>>>Back to Top Jensen Maritime-Designed River Push Boat M/V Stephenson II Delivered The Jensen Maritime-designed river push boat, the M/V Stephenson II, has been successfully delivered to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for use in Gascondale, MO, in the Corps' Kansas City district. Jensen performed the functional design and production lofting of the ABS Classed, 58-foot, 770-horsepower boat, which will provide operational support for the district's ... Read More>>>Back to Top Trudy Schoolenberg Appointed VP of Global R&D in Wartsila Ms. Trudy Schoolenberg, PhD (Tech), 51, has been appointed Vice President, Global R&D in Wärtsilä Industrial Operations as of August 15, 2010. Ms Schoolenberg will be responsible for global Research and Development of the Wärtsilä products. Ms. Schoolenberg has a successful career in Shell in several leading positions with strategic, operational and technology experience since 1989. Most recently she held the position ... Read More>>>Back to Top Telemar Buys Polaris Electronics Norge Telemar announced Friday that it is proud to have purchased Polaris Electronics Norge. Polaris specializes in equipment sales, service and maintenance of radio and satellite communications services for the Norwegian Shipping Industry. Polaris Electronics Norge will soon begin operations under the Telemar Group with the new name Telemar Norge. Telemar Group said in a press statement that entering the Norwegian market is ... Read More>>>Back to Top Dutch Navy and OptiMarin Join Forces to Combat Biological Invasion The Dutch Navy becomes environmental frontrunner by choosing OptiMarin to remove bio-invaders that cause ecological and economic harm. OptiMarin passes a major milestone winning its largest retrofit order and first ballast water treatment (BWT) system contract for navy use. The Royal Netherlands Navy has awarded OptiMarin a major contract for the delivery of two sets of OptiMarin Ballast System (OBS) for supply-class ... Read More>>>Back to Top Largest Yacht Ever Built in the United States Derecktor Launches CAKEWALK Remember the date. August 8th 2010 was not just another summer Sunday for the United States yachting industry. Instead, at 10:30 a.m. a genuinely momentous event took place. For that moment marked the launch by Derecktor Shipyards of the 85.6 meter (281 ft) motor yacht CAKEWALK, the largest yacht (by volume) ever built in the United States. When the ... Read More>>>Back to Top Click Here to Unsubscribe Copyright © 2010 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316