Environment

Coltec Industries Inc. and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $280,000 and spend approximately $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's marine diesel engine air rules. A joint statement from the Department of Justic ...

Two Hamburg, Germany, based companies have come up with an alternative to plugging into shoreside power as a way to cut ships' emissions while in port. The Eckelmann Group, a specialist in maritime environmental protection, and supply and disposal logistics, and TUI Cruises have signed a memorandum of understanding that could ...

Piraeus, Greece, based Ilios Shipping Company S.A. was sentenced March 27 in federal court in New Orleans for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and obstruction of justice, announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno and Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The court ordered Ilios to pay an overall criminal penal ...

A 38 m "Guideship" to be built for Korea's state-owned Incheon Port Authority is to have a 9 cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF dual-fuel engine. The vessel, which is being designed and built by shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries, and will operate in the Port of Incheon taking passengers on various routes. The Korean Government has specified that enviro ...

The California Air Resources Board has received $5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds to help clean up a variety of boats and vessels that operate in California's ports and harbors. These funds are designed to reduce emissions from a variety of marine vessels that use diesel engines, such as charter fishing boats, commercial fishing b ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is tightening its vigilance on ships that may infringe MARPOL regulations, the American P&I Club has warned its members. The club's managers warn that there has been a "significant increase" in Coast Guard activity relating to oily water separators and associated electronic monitoring equipment. Coast Guard officers have been ...

Jeffrey Lantz, director of the Coast Guard's Office of Commercial Regulations and Standards, says that a just-released final rule on ballast water discharge will protect the marine environment and is consistent with the IMO discharge standard. The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that the final rule for standards for living ...

Carnival Corporation's AIDA Cruises subsidiary has released more details about the two 3,250 passenger cruise ships that it has on order at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for delivery in 2015 and 2016.AIDA management and the shipbuilder have taken a number of technical decisions that will imp ...