MarEx Newsletter - June 12 2008

June 12, 2008 | Vol. 6, No. 24 In this issue: Redefining Liability: Who's Really to Blame in the COSCO BUSAN Case? May/June Edition of THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE is on the Street! MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk Featured MarEx Print Article: Executive Interview with US Coast Guard ADM Thad Allen DOJ Announcement: Valero Refining-Texas Agrees to Resolve Alleged Violations Over Corpus Christi Oil Spill Craig Johnson Becomes President of Faststream Recruitment Inc. Allision in Boston Harbor Reignites Docking Master Licensing Question Senate Hearing to Examine Safety and Security on Board Cruise Ships Retail Container Volume Below Last Year But Climbing Cummings Issues Statement on Jones Act Hearing MARAD Announces Director of Marine Highways and Passenger Services Office Center for Maritime Training Announces Enhanced USCG License Program Canadian and U.S. Forces Team Up with Frontier Sentinel More Piracy Attacks Redefining Liability: Who's Really to Blame in the COSCO BUSAN Case? Ship's owner asserts plausible case to deflect blame and accuse others of negligence and misconduct Read More>>>Back to Top May/June Edition of THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE is on the Street! Shipbuilding & repair print edition features NASSCO & CEO Fred Harris on the cover – and much, much more… Read More>>>Back to Top MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… MarEx readers weighed in on last week's editorial (And Then There Were Two…Benign Neglect: domestic energy & maritime interests brace for four more years of the same), as well as other issues. Read More>>>Back to Top Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk RAND Corporation Technical Report should be of interest to persons involved with Navy and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) weapon-system acquisition issues. Read More>>>Back to Top Featured MarEx Print Article: Executive Interview with US Coast Guard ADM Thad Allen This week's archived print article features an exclusive executive interview with U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen. First published in our April 2008 Maritime Executive edition, the article outlines the way forward for the Coast Guard and also looks back at the past. Read More>>>Back to Top DOJ Announcement: Valero Refining-Texas Agrees to Resolve Alleged Violations Over Corpus Christi Oil Spill Valero Refining-Texas, L.P. has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act stemming from a spill of 3,400 barrels of oil into the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on June 1, 2006, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. Read More>>>Back to Top Craig Johnson Becomes President of Faststream Recruitment Inc. Craig Johnson, former Vice President of Faststream Recruitment's US business has been promoted to the position of President. Read More>>>Back to Top Allision in Boston Harbor Reignites Docking Master Licensing Question 323 foot cargo ship passing under the Fore River Bridge in Quincy accidentally strikes the fendering system on the side of the bridge. With a so-called "docking master" directing vessel, the incident raises new questions about who should be in charge of ship docking and undocking in Boston and, more importantly, under what conditions. Read More>>>Back to Top Senate Hearing to Examine Safety and Security on Board Cruise Ships June 19th hearing of the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation will focus on keeping Americans safe at sea. Read More>>>Back to Top Retail Container Volume Below Last Year But Climbing Port Tracker report says Nation's continuing economic slowdown will keep cargo traffic at major retail container ports below last year's levels through this summer and early fall, but month-to-month numbers are climbing and ports should see a return to year-over-year growth by Halloween. Read More>>>Back to Top Cummings Issues Statement on Jones Act Hearing Maryland Democrat says that "fair and consistent enforcement of the law is essential to ensure that it is appropriately enforced and that all of the vessels certified for coastwise trade are competing on a level playing field." Read More>>>Back to Top MARAD Announces Director of Marine Highways and Passenger Services Office The Maritime Administration has named James D. Pugh to head its Office of Marine Highways and Passenger Services in Washington, D.C. Pugh will focus on expanding the use of America's coastal, intracoastal and inland waterways to reduce landside congestion, reduce energy consumption and increase opportunities for American mariners, shipbuilding and the overall economy. Read More>>>Back to Top Center for Maritime Training Announces Enhanced USCG License Program The Center for Maritime Training at Massachusetts Maritime Academy recently received approval from the United States Coast Guard to offer Assistance Towing and Auxiliary Sailing Assistance Endorsement courses. Courses include review and on-site examinations for the Coast Guard's Towing and Sailing Assistance license endorsements. The Center now offers a complete one-stop resource of enhanced programming for those seeking to obtain their captain's license. Read More>>>Back to Top Canadian and U.S. Forces Team Up with Frontier Sentinel Approximately 3,000 personnel from Canadian and U.S. military forces and government civilian agencies are participating in the full-scale training exercise Frontier Sentinel (EX FS 08-2), which focuses on maritime homeland security from June 9-13, 2008. Read More>>>Back to Top More Piracy Attacks Livestock ship attacked in transit to Australia –Somali pirates demand more money for Dutch ship. New UN Resolution allows countries to enter Somali waters. Read More>>>Back to Top Copyright © 2007 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 To Unsubscribe, click here.

MarEx Newsletter - June 5 2008

June 5, 2008 | Vol. 6, No. 23 In this issue: And Then There Were Two… RAND Study Finds Increase in Piracy and Terrorism at Sea May/June Edition of THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE is on the Street! MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… Coast Guard Welcomes Administrative Law Judge Program Review Solving the Maritime Manning Crisis and Improving Safety Along the Way Short Sea Shipping News from Maritime Advisors LLC: DC Legislative Update 'GREEN DOLPHIN' Hybrid Tug Earns Historic First for FOSS Maritime RINA Spotlight: Italy-Based Classification Society Announcement(s) Maritime Administration Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Port Project in Guam Bollinger Delivers Second OPA90 Barge to Bouchard ECJ delivers judgment in case C-308/06 concerning the validity of EU Directive 2005/35/EC on Ship Source Pollution Featured MarEx Print Article: Environmental Criminal Enforcement Last Liberty Ship May Go To Greece Rigdon Marine Statement about Purchase by GulfMark & City of New Orleans And Then There Were Two… Benign Neglect: domestic energy & maritime interests brace for four more years of the same. Read More>>>Back to Top RAND Study Finds Increase in Piracy and Terrorism at Sea Acts of piracy and terrorism at sea are on the rise, but there is little evidence to support concerns from some governments and international organizations that pirates and terrorists are beginning to collude with one another, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. Read More>>>Back to Top May/June Edition of THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE is on the Street! Shipbuilding & repair print edition features NASSCO & CEO Fred Harris on the cover – and much, much more… Read More>>>Back to Top MarEx Mailbag: Reader Response to Last Week's Editorial & More… MarEx readers weigh in on last week's editorial (It's the Energy, Stupid), as well as MARAD's Report, "Help Wanted: U.S. Maritime Industry / American Operators Report Trouble Finding Enough Qualified People." Read More>>>Back to Top Coast Guard Welcomes Administrative Law Judge Program Review Coast Guard's Chief Administrative Law Judge, the Honorable Joseph N. Ingolia, announced Friday that the Coast Guard welcomes the pending U.S. Government Accountability Office's review of the Coast Guard's Administrative Law Judge program. Read More>>>Back to Top Solving the Maritime Manning Crisis and Improving Safety Along the Way Maritime Casebook's Bob Couttie advocates keeping the mariners we already have, alive. Read More>>>Back to Top Short Sea Shipping News from Maritime Advisors LLC: DC Legislative Update Mark Yonge of Maritime Advisors LLC provides a timely update on Shortsea Shipping related legislation Read More>>>Back to Top 'GREEN DOLPHIN' Hybrid Tug Earns Historic First for FOSS Maritime Company wins EPA's prestigious Clean Air Technology Award for development of low emission vessel Read More>>>Back to Top RINA Spotlight: Italy-Based Classification Society Announcement(s) RINA launches ILO notation & breaks into China mega ship market Read More>>>Back to Top Maritime Administration Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Port Project in Guam The Maritime Administration has facilitated a similar project for the Port of Anchorage, and is beginning a similar project with the Hawaii Harbors. Read More>>>Back to Top Bollinger Delivers Second OPA90 Barge to Bouchard Bollinger delivers the second of two 35,000 barrel OPA90 tank barges to Bouchard. Read More>>>Back to Top ECJ delivers judgment in case C-308/06 concerning the validity of EU Directive 2005/35/EC on Ship Source Pollution European Court rules that the validity of the EU Directive 2005/35/EU on ship source pollution cannot be assessed by reference to the international conventions MARPOL 73/78 and UNCLOS 1982 – this leaves open the door for other legal fora to rule on how the Directive is to be interpreted consistently with these conventions Read More>>>Back to Top Featured MarEx Print Article: Environmental Criminal Enforcement This week's archived print article focuses on the hot issue of environmental criminal enforcement. This article, written by Jeanne M. Grasso and Gregory F. Linsin of Blank Rome LLP, first appeared in the February 2008 Maritime Executive edition. Read More>>>Back to Top Last Liberty Ship May Go To Greece Greeks Hope World War II Ship Will Become Museum Read More>>>Back to Top Rigdon Marine Statement about Purchase by GulfMark & City of New Orleans Rigdon Marine Announce Signing of Purchase Agreement and commitment to New Orleans Read More>>>Back to Top Copyright © 2007 The Maritime Executive. 3200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 100 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 To Unsubscribe, click here.