MarEx Newsletter | PIRACY UPDATE: Spanish Tanker & Vietnamese Carrier Released, S. Africa Couple Face Death

If you are experiencing problems viewing the newsletter, please Click Here << Previous Edition   Volume 9, Edition 83 (September 27, 2011) Share this Newsletter PIRACY UPDATE: Spanish Oil Tanker & Vietnamese Bulk Carrier Released, S. Africa Couple Face Death Without Ransom Spanish-Owned Oil Tanker Released With No Ransom Ten days ago Spanish oil tanker, Mattheos I, was boarded by a group of pirates 62 nautical miles off Benin while conducting ship-to-ship petroleum transfer operations.  This weekend all 23 crewmembers are confirmed to be alive and set free from pirate control after the seizure of the tanker’s diesel.  Unlike the Somali pirates, the West African pirates released the Cypriot-flagged ship without the imposition of any ransom payment—they took the fuel cargo instead, reported... Read More >> ABS Nautical Systems Debuts NS5 Enterprise at the 2011 Annual User Conference By MarEx Staff The software development “brainchild” of ABS classification, ABS Nautical Systems, last week on September 12-15th in Houston, Texas introduced the next stage of their software solution for users and media alike: NS5 Enterprise.  MarEx joined the annual conference in... Read More >> Man Jumps Overboard From Carnival Cruise Ship Into Gulf of Mexico On Friday night around 6:30pm, Carnival officials confirm passengers witnessing a male passenger aboard the Conquest jumping overboard while cruising near Cozumel in the Gulf of Mexico. When news of the event reached Carnival officials, the ship returned to the location where the man was last seen and began a search and rescue... Read More >> Out of Touch? Or Worse? By: Dr. Jim Giermanski, Chairman Powers Global Holdings, Inc. No one doubts the use of the international supply chain as a means to attack the United States and/or deliver illegal cargo of all types into the commerce of this country.  Customs and Boarder Protection (CBP) claim that its Automated Commercial... Read More >> Indonesian Ferry In Flames After Colliding with Barge, Death Toll Still Unclear According to AFP reports, an Indonesian passenger ferry carrying 443 people has collided with a barge causing the ferry to catch fire.  The KM Marina Nusantara had been travelling from eastern Java early Monday morning.  As it approached Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province on Indonesian Borneo, the ferry loaded... Read More >> VIDEO: WWII-Era SS Gairsoppa Discovered Carrying 7 Million Ounces of Silver Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced that it has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters. The SS Gairsoppa was a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that was... Read More >> Port of Savannah is Second Busiest U.S. Port for Containerized Export Tonnage Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Executive Director Curtis J. Foltz announced to a crowd of more than 1,100 at the annual State of the Port Address today that the Port of Savannah, according to the U.S Department of Commerce, had become the second busiest container port for the export of American goods. “The demand for... Read More >> NOAA Ship Rainier Returns to Alaska to Conduct Sea Floor Surveys in Support of Safe Navigation NOAA Ship Rainier has begun a month long survey of the sea floor near Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island as part of a multi-year effort to update nautical charts for the area. In addition to supporting marine navigation, data acquired by the 231-foot hydrographic survey vessel will also support marine ecosystem studies and improve... Read More >> Cargotec Wins First Ever West Africa Ship-to-Shore Crane Contract Cargotec has received a breakthrough order for ship-to-shore cranes from the Bollore group of France, through its wholly-owned Unicaf subsidiary. The contract is for a total of four Kalmar ship-to-shore cranes to be delivered in the third quarter of 2012 to various ports in West Africa. The contract also includes an option for four more... Read More >> Coast Guard Oversees Salvage of Corn Barges on Mississippi River The Coast Guard continues the supervision of the salvage of sunken corn barges on the Mississippi River, Sunday, near mile marker 233. McKinney Salvage & Heavy Lift completed the salvage operations for one of three corn barges, Friday, owned by American River Transportation Company. The salvage of the second barge is... Read More >> LoBiondo Holds Hearing to Focus on DHS Headquarters Relocation to St. Elizabeths The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ), held a hearing to review the status of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) headquarters consolidation project, including the relocation of the Coast Guard’s headquarters to the St. Elizabeths Hospital... Read More >> Port of San Francisco Receives $2.97 Million U.S. Department of Transportation Grant Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has announced that the Port of San Francisco was awarded $2.97 million for rail improvements aimed at improving segments of its freight rail track in order to enhance safety, livability, and economic development.  The Port project will improve an approximately one mile-long spur... Read More >> Setcom Completes Acquisition of Piratecom Purchase unites two leading manufacturers of public safety communications systems. Setcom™ Corporation, the premiere manufacturer of intercom systems and headsets for public safety vehicles and high-noise industrial environments has acquired Piratecom, the foremost producer of communications systems for marine... Read More >> Richard D. Steinke Receives 2011 Connie Award More than 200 turn out to for Port of Long Beach Executive Director Honored by the Containerization & Intermodal Institute Connie Award was presented by the Containerization and Intermodal Institute (CII) to Richard D. S teinke, who will retire this month as executive director of the Port of Long Beach. Mr.... Read More >> TEAM Wins PBB Contracts for 3 Major Cruise Terminals TEAM contracted to deliver in 2012 a total of five Passenger Boarding Bridges to cruise terminals in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Genoa (Italy) and Miami (USA). TEAM Ports & Maritime S.L.U. (“TEAM”), the world leading designer and manufacturer of sophisticated Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) for cruise and ferry... 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MarEx Newsletter | Pirates Set Fire to Cargo Ship After Failed Hijacking, Coast Guard Monitors Adrift Barge In Bering Straight

If you are experiencing problems viewing the newsletter, please Click Here << Previous Edition   Volume 9, Edition 82 (September 24, 2011) Share this Newsletter Pirates Set Fire to Cargo Ship After Failed Hijacking The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) reported that pirates have set the Estelle Shipping-owned cargo ship, M/V Pacific Express, ablaze after they were unable to take control of the vessel. The IMB reports indicate that the armed pirates were aboard two skiffs about 300 nautical miles east of Mombasa, Kenya, and attempted to seize the vessel.  The Cyprus Maritime-managed Pacific Express crewmembers were all able to retreat to the onboard citadel and dispatched for assistance.    PHOTO CAPTION: M/V Pacific... Read More >> Ancient 2nd Century Roman Shipyard Unearthed by UK Archaeologists A team of archaeologists led by the Britain-based University of Southampton has announced what they believe to have been the first major shipyard in Ancient Rome to ever be discovered at Portus, Rome’s main trading hub between the 1st and 6th centuries. The structure, which BBC reports to be dated around year 117 AD, was... Read More >> Another Fatal Accident at Chittagong, Bangladesh Gov’t to Beef Up Maritime Training On Thursday at the Chittagong shipbreaking yard, one worker was killed and two others injured when a large iron plate crashed onto the men while conducting welding work in Sitakunda upazila, The Daily Star reports. The man who died has been identified as Md Farid, 22, and the injured as Alam, 20, and Saiful, 22. The accident... Read More >> EXECUTIVE ACHIEVEMENT: Thomas J. Bethel, National President, American Maritime Officers By MarEx Staff Tom Bethel, National President of American Maritime Officers (AMO), the largest union of merchant marine officers in the U.S., was raised in Philadelphia by a family that worked the city’s waterfront. His grandfather... Read More >> American Security Team Arrested In Nampula By Mozambique Police The Mozambican police have announced the arrest on Thursday night of four Americans and one British citizen at the airport in the northern city of Nampula, in unauthorized possession of weaponry, According to a Nampula police spokesperson cited in Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais", the group was... Read More >> VIDEO: Coast Guard Monitors Adrift Barge In Bering Straight The crews of the 82-foot Crowley tugs Siku and Sinuk successfully reestablished the tow of an adrift 173-foot barge carrying approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel in the Bering Strait near Wales Wednesday at 4:35 p.m. The Coast Guard will continue to monitor the situation as the tugs take the barge to Port Clarence, its... Read More >> Hearing Focuses on Economic Impacts of Aging U.S. Inland Waterways System A Congressional hearing highlighted the economic importance and positive impacts on job creation of the nation’s Inland Waterways Transportation System.  The hearing focused on the physical needs of the aging locks and dams as well as challenges to improving the system’s infrastructure, including the increasing amount of... Read More >> BOEMRE Awards $5.6 Million for Arctic Environmental Study The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of highly qualified and experienced Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast.... Read More >> Copenhagen Shipping Exchange Expands Presence in the Americas Copenhagen Shipping Exchange (CPHSE), a leading software application provider to the shipping industry announced that it is expanding its US presence with the addition of Joseph Benzola as its sales director for North and South America. Benzola joins CPHSE after nearly two decades servicing the shipping industry.  An... Read More >> Van Oord Wins Orders in Brazil in Excess of EUR 165 Million Van Oord has been awarded two dredging projects in the port of Suape, Brazil. Together the two contracts are worth more than EUR 165 million. The client is Suape Complexo Industrial Portuario Governador Eraldo Gueiros, the port authority for the State of Pernambuco. Work on the two projects is scheduled to begin in late... Read More >> Dubai Maritime City Authority Seeks to Establish Bunker Standards in UAE DMCA focuses on key issues covering safety, environmental sustainability and dispute resolution in bunkering industry. Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), the government entity in-charge of regulating and supervising all aspects of the maritime sector in Dubai, has announced that it is leading a new initiative that seeks to... Read More >> Imtech Receives the Designation 'Royal' Imtech N.V. (IM-AE, technical services provider in Europe and on the global marine market) announces that Her Royal Highness the Queen of the Netherlands has decided to grant Imtech N.V. the right to use the designation 'Royal'. This special Predicate is awarded today by Mr. Jan Franssen, Queen's Commissioner in the Provence... Read More >> Coast Guard Awards Bollinger Huge Contract for Four More Fast Response Cutters The Coast Guard awarded a $179.7 million contract option to Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La., September 22 for the production of four more Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs).  This option award brings the total number of FRCs under contract with Bollinger to twelve, with a current contract value of $597 million. ... Read More >> Jackson Offshore Operators Secures GOM Contract with Super Major Lee Jackson, President and CEO of Jackson Offshore Operators, LLC is pleased to announce that the company is now 60 days into two long term contracts with a Super Major oil and gas company in the US Gulf of Mexico to supply two Fast Supply Vessels (FSV), M/V Fury and M/V Storm, for Gulf of Mexico operations. “Our... Read More >> Crowley Expands Logistics Offerings to the British Virgin Islands Crowley Maritime Corporation announced today the continued expansion of the company's logistics offerings in the Caribbean with the addition of freight forwarding, consolidation and Customs brokerage services in Tortola and Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands (BVI). In conjunction with these new capabilities, Crowley now also offers... Read More >>   Home¬†|¬†News¬†|¬†Shipping¬†|¬†Tugs & Salvage¬†|¬†Business¬†|¬ †Training¬†|¬†Shipbuilding¬†|¬†Offshore¬†|¬†Government¬†|¬†Magazine Advertising|About Us|Contact Us|Register|Newsletter Archives|Sign up for Free MarEx Newsletter|Advertise in Newsletter|Subscribe to Print Edition © Copyright 2011 The Maritime Executive, LLC. All rights reserved.Privacy policy.

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