Environment

Cell phone photos of an illegal magic pipe in operation, could bring a whistle blowing crew member a nice monetary award. Two corporations have pleaded guilty in separate hearings in Baltimore for their role in managing and owning a ship -- the M/V Aquarosa -- engaged in deliberate discharges of waste oil and plastic garbage. Yesterday, the companies were each sentenced by U.S. Distr ...

Wärtsilä is to supply fresh water integrated scrubbers for a series of six vessels, with an option for a further two, being built for Canadian shipowner, Algoma Central Corporation by Chinese shipbuilder Nantong Minde Heavy Industrial (see earlier story). ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) have announced an agreement to co-develop and implement outreach, training and educational materials aimed at reducing maritime pollution.Under a memorandum of understanding, signed during a ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters, this month, the Coast Guard will expand its marine env ...

Development of large, LNG-fueled containerships moving ahead. Classification societies DNV and Bureau Veritas have each given approval in principle to designs for such vessels. Kawasaki Heavy Industries has gotten approval for a 9,000 TEU ship from DNV.  Bureau Veritas has given approval in principle for a 14,000 TEU basic design developed i ...

Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) announced that its subsidiary, Hyde Marine, Inc., has been awarded a contract to supply a total of six Hyde Guardian(R) Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) Systems for two LR2 Aframax tankers being constructed by the SPP shipyard in South Korea for shipowner OSG. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Hyde Guardian employs a chemical-fr ...

The Balpure ballast water treatment system from Severn Trent De Nora has been selected for use on two oceangoing heavy deck cargo barges being constructed for Norwegian-based Greenway Shipping by Dalian Shipyard, at its shipyard in Dalian, China. The 9,025 dwt oceangoing barges will be the first new offshore barges to install the Balpure system and the first offshore barges t ...

South Korean shipping company Keoje Marine Co. Ltd. and two engineers from the M/T Keoje Tiger pleaded guilty January 10  in federal court in Honolulu to environmental crimes violations, says the U.S. Department of Justice.According to Environment and Natural Resources Division Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno and U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni, Keoje Marine ...

Over the years, Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. has invested in research and development to reduce the environmental footprint of its shipping activities. Now, MOL recently announced that it has ordered a new 209,000-dwt Cape-size bulker that will adopt element technologies of the next-genera ...