SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 — The IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention entered force today and the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday released a policy letter (17-05) entitled “Guidelines for Voluntary Compliance with the
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — MAN Cryo, MAN Diesel & Turbo’s marine LNG fuel gas system manufacturing company, is to deliver an LNG bunkering facility for the Port of Gothenburg, under a contract
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017—A Trojan Marinex BWT 250 ballast water treatment system (BWTS) will be part of a ballast water management system (BWMS) for the Government of Australia’s next-generation Antarctic Supply and Research
AUGUST 30, 2017 — Yuh Fa Fishery (Vanuatu) Co. Ltd., a fishing company operating in and around American Samoa was convicted and sentenced today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to
AUGUST 24, 2017 — The Coast Guard has issued a $5,000 fine to the owners of a foreign freight vessel for unauthorized ballast water discharge into the Willamette River in Portland, August
AUGUST 23, 2017 — A federal grand jury in Portland, Maine, returned a nine-count indictment yesterday charging the manager and owner of a 2016-built Liberian flagged bulker with offenses related to the vessel’s Oil
AUGUST 21, 2017 — The Port of Los Angeles achieved record clean air gains while moving more cargo than ever, according to its 2016 Inventory of Air Emissions. The report also shows
AUGUST 18, 2017—A report recently released by U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy indicates that it is possible to increase
AUGUST 16, 2017 — In another unilateral move that is several jumps ahead of anything in IMO or U.S. regulations, California is set to tighten up its regulations on biofouling to, among
AUGUST 16, 2017—Sustainability is increasingly important for many shipping companies, particularly new generation fishing vessels. That’s certainly the case for Norway’s Hav Line AS, which recently ordered a salmon processing and transportation