 | November/December Edition of The Maritime Executive Has Hit the Street!
Offshore Vigilance and Excellence The events surrounding the Deepwater Horizon were not only devastating to the companies and people involved but also represented a sea-change for the U.S. offshore industry. Today, in the North Sea, Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) are a mandatory requirement for...
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 | Savannah Commission Declares DHEC Permit Invalid
In a unanimous vote the commission created by legislature declares the water-quality permit for the port as improperly issued and illegal. The turn down of the permit comes just days after the South Carolina state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) board granted a water-quality permit for the Port of...
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 | Former Royal Marine Raped and Murdered on French Island
Former Royal Marine and maritime security guard, Carl Davies, was found dead in a ravine on Reunion Island recently. It was initially believed that he had fallen to his death on the island where he was helping to protect ships from piracy in the Indian Ocean. However, further investigations have revealed that Davies suffered a...
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 | Rena’s Salvage Teams Face Nasty Conditions
Salvors working on the crippled Rena in New Zealand removing the ship’s cargo have been grappling with strong winds, and rotten food within the containers they are trying to remove. The teams have been fighting against the 40-knot gusts, and still managing to remove more than what was originally projected for the...
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 | Superferry Collides with Fishing Boat off Philippines Leaving One Dead
A passenger superferry rammed into a fishing boat bound for Manila off of the Sarangani province in the Philippines early Friday morning which resulted in the death of one crewman, and wounded six others who were rescued by Coast Guard officials. One of the surviving fishermen of the M/V San Jose, Rex Bulawin, reported that the...
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 | Whale Protection Areas and Their Implementation in Future ECDIS
By Jens Schröder-Fürstenberg Ships navigating at high speed are still a big danger for the animals in areas where whales are present. Speeds of more than 20 knots are not rare and whales have no chance to avoid “collisions” by themselves. Several measures have been...
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 | Prospects for Battery Electric Ship Propulsion Along the St Lawrence Seaway
By Harry Valentine While ships sail along the Lower St Lawrence River throughout the year, the Upper St Lawrence River known as the Seaway provides passage to ships between late March and late December. While fuel oil prices rise, the combination of factors and ongoing developments enhance future...
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 | 21 Missing from Cargo Ship in South China Sea
Seoul's Foreign Ministry is reporting that 21 crew are missing after a cargo ship sunk in the South China Sea. Contact with the ship was lost after it left Penang in Malaysia. Hong Kong and Vietnam police say that four crew members have been rescued. Officials have not released the name of the ship or its...
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 | U.S. Judge Denies BP's Bid to Access $750 Million of Insurance Coverage
U.S. District Court Judge, Carl Barbier, issued a forty-two (42) page Order ruling against BP on its motion for final judgment on the pleadings in respect to all claims presented in the pending insurance actions arising from the DEEPWATER HORIZON incident. BP requested the Court issue two (2) declaratory awards in its favor,...
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 | IMO Secretary-General opens 27th IMO Assembly
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has focused heavily on actions to stem climate change and to address piracy off the coast of Somalia, in what has been a busy and productive biennium for the Organization on the regulatory front, Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos told delegates at the opening (on Monday, 21 November)...
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 | Al-Shabaab Naval Forces Torch Kenyan Military Ships
Divisions from Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen’s Naval Forces stormed and burned military ships patrolling the waters along the Somali Coast, marking the first encounter between the Mujahideen and the invading Kenyan forces at sea. Using high-powered speed boats and operating stealthily under the cover of darkness, two...
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 | Abandoned Coast Guard Relic Salvaged from Delta
Coast Guard joins media event observing removal of historic former cutter SACRAMENTO — Its place in history far greater than its final location would suggest, a decaying former Coast Guard cutter was removed from a muddy bank on the Sacramento Delta today. Scuttled and left to ruin by its civilian...
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 | Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) Elects 2012 Officers
The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (CCMIT) Linthicum Heights, Maryland--SOCP Elects 2012 Officers and Holds Fall Meeting and Anti-Piracy Demonstration. 2012 Elections –November 1-3, 2011 Outgoing SOCP...
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 | OCTOPUS-Onboard for Windmill Installation Vessels from RWE Innogy
Two new build ‘Seabreeze’ windmill installation vessels shall be equipped with OCTOPUS-Onboard. The vessels shall be operated by NSB (Germany) in order to install windmills in the Nordsee Ost windfarm project for RWE Innogy. RWE Innogy pools the renewable energy expertise and power plants of the RWE Group. The...
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