 | Drunk Cruise Passenger Who Dropped Ship’s Anchor Faces 20 Years in Prison
A California man has pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to damage a maritime facility after dropping a Holland America cruise ship’s anchor into the ocean and faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Tampa, FL, federal prosecutors said that the man in question, 45-year-old Rick Ehlert, pleaded guilty to the...
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 | New Speakers Announced for Upcoming "Rebuilding America & Creating Jobs: A Maritime Initiative"
The Maritime Executive will host a national Maritime Initiative, "Rebuilding America and Creating Jobs," in Baltimore on October 12 & 13, 2011, the beginning of a national campaign to...
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 | Coast Guard Urges Mariners and the Public to Prepare for Tropical Storm Conditions in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
The U.S. Coast Guard is urging mariners, recreational boaters, swimmers, surfers and the general public Sunday to exercise good judgement and prepare for tropical storm conditions due to the passing of Tropical Storm Irene along the south coast of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “I strongly recommend that...
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 | U.S. Fifth Federal Circuit Holds That Terms and Conditions Posted on Websites Can Be Incorporated Into Contracts By Reference
By: Philip C. Brickman, Partner, Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli In One Beacon Insurance Company v. Crowley Marine Services, Inc., 2011 U.S. App. Lexis 15620 (5th Cir. 2011), the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a district court ruling that contractual terms appearing on a...
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 | Petrobras Helicopter Crashes and Kills Four Crew Offshore Brazil
A Petrobras-rented helicopter taxi carrying personnel crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday about 62 miles offshore Rio de Janeiro, taking the lives of all four crew aboard the aircraft. The AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter had left the P-65 rig in the Enchova field on Friday afternoon before the accident. Shortly...
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 | Man Shot to Death on Dock of Boston Harbor
Authorities have confirmed a young man has been fatally shot on a Boston city dock after getting off a Boston Harbor cruise boat. The police reported that the man, supposedly in his mid-20’s, was pronounced dead from a head wound early Monday morning on the Northern Avenue dock of the harbor after rushing him to a nearby...
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 | Pirates Attack Two Tankers in Two Days
On Saturday, suspected pirates seized the chemical oil tanker, MV Fairchem Bogey, from its anchorage at the port in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in front of the coast guard. The pirates took the ship, along with its 21-member Indian crew, and are now in Somali waters according to Mumbai Anglo Eastern Ship Management. The...
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 | This Week in Maritime History, August 21-27
August 22, 1776
British Redcoats Arrive at Long Island On this day in maritime history in the year 1776, nearly 24,000 British men arrived at Long Island with the intent to capture New York and gain control of the Hudson River in the midst of American rebellion. If completed, the...
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 | Three Dead in Philippine Inter-Island Ferry Fire
The M/V Island Fastcraft 1, an inter-island ferry, was heading towards Cebu province when it caught fire in the midst of stormy weather in the central Philippines. The ferry had at least 75 people on board when the fire took place. Several passengers were prompted to jump into the churning waters overboard where three of them...
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 | Second Red Sea ‘Mass Attack’ Suggests New Trend in Pirate Tactics
Following a report filed on Sunday August 7th by the IMB Live Piracy Reporting Centre, which saw suspected Somali pirates at 13:02N 043:07E attempt to hijack a vessel off the coast of Eritrea in large numbers, Neptune Maritime Security raised concerns over this apparent change of tactics. Unfortunately, it would...
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 | Continuing Promise Mission Suspends Operations in Haiti Due to TS Irene
The Continuing Promise 2011 (CP11) mission team, embarked aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), will suspend operations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 21, in anticipation of severe weather heading toward the area. Tropical storm Irene is expected to make landfall in the vicinity of Hispaniola between Aug. 22-23. Comfort and...
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 | Salazar, Bromwich Announce Proposed Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich announced that BOEMRE will hold the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. Consistent with steps President Obama announced in...
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 | Puerto Rican-based Shipping Company Sentenced to Pay $700,000 Penalty for Intentional Cover-Up of Oil Pollution
WASHINGTON – Epps Shipping Company, a Liberian corporation doing business out of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was sentenced in federal court for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and making false statements to U.S. Coast Guard inspectors, announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno and United States...
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 | U.S. Files Lawsuit Against Bollinger Shipyards for Material False Statements Made to the Coast Guard
Government Asserts Louisiana Company Misrepresented Hull Strength of Converted Vessels WASHINGTON - The United States has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against Bollinger Shipyards Inc., Bollinger Shipyards Lockport LLC and Halter Bollinger Joint Venture LLC, the Justice Department...
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 | FPSO OSX-1 Begins Journey Toward Oil and Gas Production in Brazil
OSX Brasil S.A. (“OSX” or “Company”), a Brazilian publicly held company, focused on the provision of equipment and services to the offshore oil and gas industry, by means of an integrated operation in shipbuilding, leasing of exploration and production (E&P) units, and operation and maintenance (O&M)...
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 | Yang Ming Successfully Implements AMOS
SpecTec has successfully completed the implementation of AMOS on the first lot of 40 ships with Yang Ming. SpecTec will install AMOS on another 11 ships during the course of 2011, while more system will be implemented in 2012 to complete the Fleet installation which is to date of 89 ships. SpecTec has shown once again to be the...
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 | DESMI Ocean Guard Completes Land-Based Test of their Ballast Water Treatment System
DESMI Ocean Guard A/S is proud to announce that the land-based test of our Ballast Water Treat-ment System has been successfully completed at the DHI test facility, Denmark. Our system, comprising 40 micron filtration, low pressure UV radiation and on-site generation of ozone injected into the water stream, has been...
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 | Lockheed Martin Team Begins Construction of Nation's Next Littoral Combat Ship
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-led industry team has begun construction on the nation's fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at Marinette Marine. The team plans to deliver LCS 5, the future USS Milwaukee, to the U.S. Navy in 2014. The industry team recently received approval for full production of LCS 5 after finishing a...
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 | Maine Maritime Academy Welcomes the Class of 2015
Maine Maritime Academy faculty, staff, and students began welcoming new students in the Class of 2015 to campus last week for a series of annual orientation sessions. According to Jeff Loustaunau, vice president for enrollment management, 310...
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 | Hamworthy to Open New Service Centre in Brazil
International fluid handling specialist Hamworthy is to open a new dedicated service centre in Brazil. The new service centre represents a direct investment in a market that has offered sustained growth for the company’s oil and gas handling systems and pump...
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 | Viking Offers Inflatable Liferafts and Buoyant Apparatus to Comply with USCG-imposed Life Float Phase-out
According to new US Coast Guard regulations, vessels carrying life floats or rigid buoyant apparatus must remove them from the vessel and replace them with other approved survival craft by no later than January 1, 2015. Viking Life-Saving Equipment urges those who will be affected to plan ahead by securing new inflatable life-saving...
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 | MITAGS' SOCP STCW95 Working Group Meeting
SOCP STCW95 Working Group Meeting
When: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Where: MITAGS, MARYLAND The Ship Operations Cooperative Program will be hosting an STCW95 Working Group Meeting at the Maritime Institute of...
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 | Horizon Delivers FMT's M/V Brees
Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., Bayou La Batre, AL, has delivered the third in a series of 120’ Towboats to Florida Marine Transporters of Mandeville, LA. The M/V Brees joins her sister ships, M/V’s Capt. W. D. Nunley and Capt. Kirby Dupuis in pushing cargoes throughout the inland waterways of the United...
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 | Keppel’s Associated Company to Amalgamate with Floatel International Ltd
Keppel Corporation Limited ("Keppel") wishes to announce that its associated company, Aqua Pellentesque Ltd ("Aqua"), has entered into an Amalgamation Agreement with Floatel International Ltd ("Floatel") on 21 August 2011. This agreement paves the way for Keppel, with a current stake of 31.7% in Floatel, and...
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 | Jasper Explorer Drill Ship En Route to Hyperdynamics' First Exploration Drilling Site Offshore Guinea
Hyperdynamics Corporation (NYSE: HDY) announced today that the Jasper Explorer drill ship has left its home port in Singapore and is now being mobilized to Hyperdynamics' first exploration drilling site offshore the Republic of Guinea in Northwest Africa. The initial well, the Sabu-1, is scheduled to begin drilling in...
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 | 3rd Annual Global Derivatives Forum - Thursday, September 8, 2011 - The Metropolitan Club, New York City
The Maritime Executive is proud to be a media sponsor of the 3rd Annual Global Derivatives Forum! You are cordially invited to attend Capital Link’s
3rd Annual...
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