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Koo's Shipping Company S.A., a Taiwanese corporation, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of making false statements, knowingly failing to fully and accurately maintain an oil record book as required by international treaty and U.S. law, and for knowingly discharging oily bilge waste into Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa, without using proper pollution prevention equipment, repor ...

Trinity Offshore, Gulfport, Miss., has launched TC-055, a 57 ft MK II Very Shallow Draft Multi-System Skimmer (VSMSS) built for Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) to meet the very exacting vessel specifications and procedural requirements for the often delicate operation of shallow skimming.Trinity's in-house engineering department was asked to design and engin ...

Alaska Ship & Drydock, Inc. and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough are preparing to christen the double-ended ferry M/V Ken Eichner 2 on Saturday. The vessel will be the borough's second ferry providing service to the Greater Ketchikan International Airport and entering service as the sister ship to the M/V Oral Freeman. Both ships were built by Alaska Ship & Dryd ...

Containership operator APL said it will begin radiation scanning of containerized Japanese exports delivered to its marine terminal in Yokohama for carriage on APL vessels. The decision makes APL one of the first container carriers to undertake large-scale cargo testing for radioactivity since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged Japanese nuclear reactors north of ...

Leading French ferry operator, Brittany Ferries, and shipbuilder, STX France, are embarking on a joint project to develop a new generation of environmentally-friendly passenger ferries. Powered by dual fuel engines that will burn liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined with a high efficiency electric propulsion system, the new vessel will reduce energy consumption and CO2 e ...

International Paint has introduced Interline 9001, a new bimodal epoxy coating for the cargo tanks of chemical tankers. With enhanced cargo resistance, zero absorption for many cargoes and fewer cycling restrictions, Interline 9001 simplifies the carriage of a wide range of liquid cargoes, optimizing vessel earning potential.  Modern chemical tanke ...

China's COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Group Co., Ltd. has commissioned Siemens Marine Solutions  to equip a new wind turbine installation vessel with diesel electric propulsion systems, power supply equipment and an integrated automation system.Delivery of the self-propelled jack-up vessel is scheduled for July 2012. This is Siemens' first installation of a d ...

Québec shipbuilder Davie Yards announced today that it has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Fincantieri  and DRS Technologies Canada ("DRS"), a Finmeccanica company, to negotiate the potential acquisition of the shipyard by an entity that will be majority-owned by Fincantieri. In order to continue this process, Davie has obtained an order from the Québec Superior Court (th ...

In what it calls "a gratifying end" to a long running patent infringement dispute in Australia, Sweden's Stena Rederi AB says that it and  Australian shipbuilder Austal have "reached an amicable settlement, for an undisclosed sum, of Stena's claim for compensation arising out of infringement of Stena's patent relating to hull forms for high speed catamarans."March 31, 20 ...

Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT.L) is acquiring Ship Equip International A.S. for a total consideration of $159.5 million. Based in Alesund, Norway, Ship Equip is a provider of VSAT maritime communications services to the shipping, offshore oil and gas and fishing markets.Ship Equip is to be acquired by Inmarsat Solutions Limited and will operate as a separate subsidiary alongs ...