 | Safety at Sea Is What We Do
by Tony Munoz, Editor-in-chief, The Maritime Executive Magazine, The MarEx Newsletter The Costa Concordia incident proved just one thing: Human beings are flawed no matter how much training is imposed on them. Captain Francesco Schettino fell into a lifeboat along with his first and second officers...
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 | Obama Administration Announces Major Steps toward Science-Based Energy Exploration in the Arctic
BSEE Issues Approval for Shell Chukchi Sea Oil Spill Response Plan WASHINGTON – Building on the Obama Administration’s record of taking steps to expand safe and responsible development of our nation’s oil and gas resources, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the...
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 | Norwegian Shipping Billionaire Orders 10 Oil Tankers
John Fredriksen spends $610 Million on new ships and indicates that he may make more purchases this year. Shipping tycoon, John Fredriksen, ordered six oil tankers from STX offshore & Shipbuilding Co. for $210 million. And as, Golar LNG’s chairman he placed $400 million worth of orders with Hyundai Samho...
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 | China's Vice President Xi Jingping Visits Port of L.A.
On Thursday, China’s Vice President, Xi Jingping, toured the Port of Los Angeles. The presumptive heir to current General Secretary and President Hu Jintao is touring the United States to strengthen trade between the two countries. Xi Jingping visited the Port...
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 | Moex Offshore Agrees to $90 Million Partial Settlement of Liability in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
$70 Million Penalty Is Largest Under the Clean Water Act; Moex Also to Perform Gulf Conservation Projects Worth at Least $20 Million WASHINGTON – MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC has agreed to settle its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a settlement with the United States valued at $90 million, announced the...
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 | Maersk Line Cuts Capacity on Asia - Europe Trade
Oversupply of container vessels operating on the Asia – Europe trade lane has pushed Maersk Line’s container freight rates to unsustainably low levels. In order to rationalise its service, Maersk Line is removing 9% of its vessel capacity currently...
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 | Scalise RESTORE Act Amendment passes House of Representatives
The RESTORE Act Would Dedicate 80% of BP Fines to Restoring the Gulf Coast Washington, D.C. - Congressman Steve Scalise today successfully passed a bi-partisan amendment modeled after the RESTORE Act to the energy section of the surface transportation bill, a major step forward in the fight to dedicate...
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 | Barge Collision Causes Oil Spill, Closes Stretch of Mississippi River
The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to an oil spill in the Mississippi River after two barges collided in the predawn hours of Friday morning. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans say they received a call at 1:58 a.m. reporting that a construction barge being towed by the tug ALYDAR and a tank barge, towed by the...
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 | Harvey Gulf Signs Contracts to Build Two Additional U.S. Flagged LNG-Powered Vessels
Last week, Harvey Gulf International Marine ordered two additional 302’ X 64’, Dual Fuel Offshore Supply Vessels, bringing its total order to four. The contract signed today with Trinity Offshore is a follow on to the first two vessel order placed in October of 2011. Trinity...
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 | Chalos & Co, P.C.-International Law Firm to Expand and Lands Big Fish in Miami
Chalos & Co, P.C. - International Law Firm has expanded to Miami with the addition of maritime law veteran, Michelle Otero Valdes. Mrs. Otero Valdes joins the firm following distinguished...
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 | Julia Clopton Joins EBDG
Elliott Bay Design Group is pleased to announce another addition to its staff. Julia Clopton has joined EBDG's Seattle office as a Marine Engineer. Julia brings over 7 years of marine engineering experience. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the...
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 | Amarcon Sees Increase in Demand for Hydrodynamic Analysis Software
This year Amarcon noticed an increase in orders for her hydrodynamic analysis software: OCTOPUS-Office. In the last few months major companies within the maritime industry like Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (ZPMC), Mammoet and RWE Innogy placed an order for...
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 | RWO Offers - as the First Ballast Water Treatment Company - a 3D Scan Service
Modelling of the installation of a ballast water treatment system on board a ship The Bremen-based water and wastewater treatment specialist RWO now offers its maritime customers - besides its efficient CleanBallast ballast water treatment system that has been tested...
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 | Wireless Sensor Alerts Before Trouble Occurs
Predictive Sensor Technologies (PST), introduces its Wireless Environmental Temperature, Humidity and Dew point Sensor/Transmitter, (PST-THD) which, alerts the user via text or email when pre-set targets are reached. Operations which are sensitive to ambient conditions such as clean...
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