Researcher wants scrubber discharge ban

Scrubber discharges come under renewed fire

Metals and other environmentally hazardous substances in ships’ scrubber discharge water are putting the marine environment at risk, according to a new study from researchers at Sweden’s prestigious Chalmers University of Technology.

Guilty plea in Austal USA fraud case

New Orleans Steamboat Company charged with CWA violation

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans Steamboat Company (NOSC), was charged on May 26, 2023, with violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) in connection

Top view of narco sub after seizure

VIDEO: Colombian Navy intercepts largest narco sub yet

A U.S. court may have just sentenced Colombia’s “Prince of the Semisubmersibles” to a hefty prison term, but that doesn’t mean that the narco sub problem has gone away. On May 12,

oral fluid test

New DOT oral fluid testing rule: No need for action yet

On May 2, 2023, the Department of Transportation published a final rule in the Federal Register allowing oral fluid testing to be used for DOT drug tests, in place of urine-based testing,

Guilty plea in Austal USA fraud case

Guilty pleas in tanker illegal discharge and hazardous condition case

Glyfada, Greece, headquartered Zeus Lines Management S.A. pleaded guilty on Monday in Providence, Rhode Island, to maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the illegal discharge of oily bilge and for failing

Photo showing navigation bridge visibility obscured by wind turbine component cargo

Wind turbine components can pose a bridge visibility problem

Imports of wind turbine components may be good news for ports, but some vessels arriving in the U.S. carrying them may find themselves in breach of U.S. bridge visibility regulations. The Coast

voyage optimization system displays

CII voyage optimization made simple?

Can attaining the desired CII value for a voyage be as simple as setting it on a control panel slider? Swedish marine green tech company Qtagg says “yes.” With shipowners getting increasingly

Inspection by AMSA led to port entry ban on V.Ships Greece operated ship

Australia slaps 90-day port entry ban on MSC box ship

In its most recent port entry ban, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) yesterday issued a refusal of access direction notice banning the Liberian-flagged containership MSC Kymea II from Australian ports for

OFAC sanctions are a Treasury function

Sanctioned Singapore oil and gas trader reacts to OFAC designation

On February 9, Singapore’s Unicious Energy Pte Ltd was among nine companies targeted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for facilitating the sale and shipment

TTB: Vessel operators, TPOs join forces on Subchapter M panel

While waterways operators may be relaxing a little after the industry’s successful completion of the four-year Certificate of Inspection phase-in of the Subchapter M towing vessel safety program, they now face further

LOAD MORE